Business / Kalgoorlie, WA

Super Pit owner Northern Star knocks back $39B takeover bid

The Age Michael Philipps

28 Sept 2026 09:47 AEST Summary

From the report

The owner of Kalgoorlie’s famous super pit, Northern Star said it had “received, considered and rejected a confidential, opportunistic, unsolicited and conditional non-binding indicative proposal from Gold Fields,” in a statement on Monday morning.

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of melbourne city buildings, used to illustrate it. Melbourne City Baths State Library Victoria Collections / flickr, CC BY

**Not from this story.** A library photograph of melbourne city buildings, used to illustrate it. Melbourne City Baths State Library Victoria Collections / flickr, CC BY

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 5 mundaneloaded

Highlighted in the text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

owner2super2

Sourcing 71 unattributednamed sources Mood 48.3 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on The Age’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The Age Super Pit owner Northern Star knocks back $39B takeover bid plain
The West Australian Northern Star Resources rejects ‘highly opportunistic’ $39b takeover bid from Gold Fields plain
The Motley Fool Australia Northern Star Resources rejects $38.7bn Gold Fields takeover offer plain
The Motley Fool Australia Northern Star shares on watch after ~~major~~ takeover approach rejected 1 change

How each outlet filed it

Also covered by The West Australian, WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score	Adjectives	Sourcing	Sentiment	Gender	Happiness
The Ageas they published this story	5	1	71	0	0	48.3
The Motley Fool Australia	20.9	15	12	-0.1	5.2	59.3
The Motley Fool Australia	15	9	41	-0.2	0	53.6

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The same event elsewhere

6 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

The West Australian Northern Star Resources rejects ‘highly opportunistic’ $39b takeover bid from Gold Fields Niral 7.8 political 0 The Motley Fool Australia Northern Star shares on watch after takeover approach rejected Niral 20.9 political 0 The Motley Fool Australia Northern Star Resources rejects $38.7bn Gold Fields takeover offer Niral 15 political 0 WAtoday Super Pit owner Northern Star knocks back $39B takeover bid Niral 5 political 0 Brisbane Times Super Pit owner Northern Star knocks back $39B takeover bid Niral 5 political 0 The Sydney Morning Herald Super Pit owner Northern Star knocks back $39B takeover bid Niral 5 political 0