Mining

Santos boss Kevin Gallagher has launched a remarkable broadside on Victoria’s investment climate by comparing the State to North Korea, as the gas industry ramps up demands for red tape cuts.

ADRIAN RAUSO: The market has digested the shock news Rio Tinto’s head honcho is on the way out, seemingly not of his own volition, a decision which could have massive ramifications.

Fortescue has announced the demotion of its energy boss Mark Hutchinson amid a raft of other leadership changes at the top end of the Andrew Forrest-led business. 

Rio Tinto has announced chief executive Jakob Stausholm will step down in 2025, confirming a succession plan process in a notice to the ASX.

Electric vehicle sales in China rose 58 per cent year-on-year in April, a positive sign for struggling WA lithium miners with the battery commodity’s price running low on juice.

Mineral Resources has named its man to lead a rebuild of the miner’s depleted board and regain the trust of shareholders left burnt by a series of scandals.

The future of one of Fortescue’s leading green energy projects looks uncertain as the business lays off staff working on the Gladstone electrolyser facility in Queensland and its hydrogen division in Perth.

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has weighed in on Anthony Albanese’s landslide election win, urging the Liberal Party to ‘learn from the loss and rebuild’.

The Greens will demand Labor block any new coal or gas projects if they hold the balance of power in the event of a hung parliament, the leader of the minor party has revealed.

Woodside boss Meg O’Neill has renewed her pleas for certainty over the future of the energy giant’s massive North West Shelf gas project, which is still awaiting a final sign off from the Federal Government.

BHP will be allowed to mine its Mt Arthur coal pits in New South Wales right up until its closure in 2030, and has started studies to potentially build a pumped hydropower project at the disused site. 

Two Mineral Resources non-executive directors will exit in the midst of the battling mining company’s major efforts to lift governance standards.

Three men have been injured in a frightening mine collapse near Sydney, with two of the miners trapped in rubble for almost an hour.

Mineral Resources and its embattled founder Chris Ellison are facing a court showdown following a series of scandals that have cut the lithium and iron ore miner’s market value in half over the past six months.

Three senior mining executives have warned Australia must get its policy setting right to remain competitive in the international marketplace.