Mining

Fortescue’s board has green-lit plans to pour almost $1b into yet another green energy project in the Pilbara as it looks to take advantage of growing demand for clean power, particularly for data centres.

BHP has finally confirmed an end to a tense trade standoff with China, ending seven months of negotiations as the Middle Kingdom sought to shift the balance of power with WA iron ore producers.

Shares in Lynas Rare Earths have slipped despite the miner more than doubling sales in the past three months and revealing it is yet to feel the disruption of the global fuel shock.

Rio is yet to feel the effects of a global oil crisis fuelled by war in the Middle East but concedes it does not know how the ongoing conflict will hit supply chains in the second half of the financial year.

The Federal Government wants France to kick start more critical minerals mining by investing in projects from scratch.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Angela Bennett’s Wright Prospecting have both had partial wins in a multimillion-dollar legal battle over some of the world’s most valuable iron ore areas.

Two of Australia’s wealthiest citizens will today find out who is entitled to billions of dollars worth of mining royalties and assets.

Fortescue is urging big miners to help plug a $2.5 billion fuel excise hole in the Federal Government’s Budget by capping the amount they can claim in diesel subsidies.

A senior Trump administration official has told Australia’s mining sector that critical minerals will become one of the pillars of the US alliance as both nations work together to end their reliance on China.

The union spearheading looming strikes at BHP’s iron ore mines warns they will be ‘the first of many’ to sweep through WA’s resources heartland.

Unions have officially stormed the gates of WA’s mining industry after workers voted to go on strike for the first time this century, putting an end to nearly four decades of industrial peace in the Pilbara.

Australia would never have produced athletes like Ash Barty or Cathy Freeman if the nation’s sporting prowess matched its mediocre economic productivity, according to BHP’s Geraldine Slattery.

The Pilbara’s status as Australia’s economic powerhouse is under threat from rising union activity that ‘doesn’t help productivity’, the head of mining’s peak lobby group says.

Rio Tinto and BHP have emerged victorious from a lengthy US court battle against what President Donald Trump had branded ‘radical left’ opposition to the mining majors’ unrelenting copper hunt.

Investors have lost confidence in BHP’s ability to emerge from its iron ore trade tussle with China unscathed.