Mining

The AWU is seeking a collective bargaining agreement guaranteeing annual pay increases of either a flat 5 per cent or WA’s cost price index percentage plus an extra per cent, whichever is greater.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Union demands BHP gifts workers huge bonus each year

The main union group trying to muscle in on BHP’s Pilbara iron ore operations is demanding thousands of workers be gifted a ‘retention bonus’ each year, on top of guaranteed pay rises.

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MinRes’ Mt Marion lithium mine
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Lithium stocks skyrocket as China closes huge mine

Shareholders in listed lithium mining companies collectively gained billions of dollars on Wednesday after months of doom and gloom.

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Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Tania Constable has urged miners to lobby the Coalition to back the Labor Government’s proposed EPA.
Mining
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis

‘Alarming’: Miners urge Coalition to back revamped EPA

Miners are being urged to lobby the Coalition to back a stripped-back Environment Protection Agency before Labor rushes off to cut a deal with the Greens.

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BCI Minerals managing director, David Boshoff.
Mining
Simone Grogan

Plibersek gives green light to BCI’s $1.4b salt project

BCI Minerals has been granted environmental approvals for its $1.4 billion Mardie project near Karratha, paving the way for the production process to start at Australia’s first major salt project in 25 years.

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In a speech to open Minerals Weeks in Canberra, Ms Constable will also hit out at the Federal Government for pursuing industrial relations laws that have brought ‘conflict to every workplace’.
Politics
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Miners ‘under siege’: MCA boss’ blunt message to PM

The mining industry feels under siege and even ‘punished for its success’ as a torrent of government intervention threatens projects and undermines competitiveness, MCA boss Tania Constable has warned.

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BHP's Jimblebar iron ore mine.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Iron ore price dives to levels not seen since 2022

The news is set to punch a hole in the Federal Budget.

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A fight over a federal EPA has demonstrated just how important one state is to the federal election.
Politics
Dan Jervis-Bardy

How Labor lost control of its environmental laws revamp

A fight over a federal EPA has demonstrated just how important one state is to the federal election.

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The Mt Cattlin lithium mine near Ravensthorpe.
Mining
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso

Another lithium mine bites the dust with up to 300 jobs cut

Job losses are looming as Arcadium Lithium reveals it will put a West Australian mine site on ‘care and maintenance’.

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On the face of it, Australia should have a huge advance in the race for critical minerals; and yet we can’t seem to get ourselves off the ground and running.
Mining
The Economist

Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse

On the face of it, Australia should have a huge advance in the race for critical minerals; and yet we can’t seem to get ourselves off - or, rather, out of - the ground and running.

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Resources Minister Madeleine King speaking at the The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA breakfast at Crown. Ian Munro
Mining
Matt Mckenzie & Dan Jervis-Bardy

Minister’s savage salvo at BHP in Pilbara IR war

Resources Minister Madeleine King has unleashed on the Big Australian as she amped up her defence of escalating union action in the resources sector.

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Resources Minister Madeleine King has sided with the unions against BHP.
Editorial

King’s attack on BHP a worrying sign for mining industry

To borrow a phrase from Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison, it’s the s.......t time for the nation to have a Resources Minister anything other than 100 per cent committed to keeping the industry strong. 

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Chris Ellison.
Business
Adrian Rauso

MinRes kills dividend amid ‘sh**tiest time’, flags more cuts

Chris Ellison says it’s the “sh**tiest time” to be the boss of Mineral Resources, proclaiming “no one” is making money from lithium and warned of a bigger Perth workforce cull than previously expected.

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Fiona Hick and Andrew Forrest.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Ex-FMG boss and CFO’s huge golden handshakes revealed

The golden handshakes of Fortescue’s former chief executive and chief financial officer can be revealed after they left the business in quick succession last year.

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Workers at the Byerwen coal mine have been asked to return, days after a fatal collision on site.
Business
Laine Clark

Workers told to return to mine after horrific fatality

After the second fatality in weeks at a central Queensland coal mine, workers have been told to return to the site despite regulatory approval to recommence operations still pending.

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Its mammoth Pilbara iron ore apparatus could be a beneficiary.
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Business
Adrian Rauso

Union action could block BHP’s huge WA iron ore expansion

An ongoing union incursion into BHP’s powerhouse Pilbara iron ore operations might stop a multi-billion-dollar expansion from going ahead, warns the company’s chief Mike Henry.

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