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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.
Shareholders in listed lithium mining companies collectively gained billions of dollars on Wednesday after months of doom and gloom.
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 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.
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.
The news is set to punch a hole in the Federal Budget.
A fight over a federal EPA has demonstrated just how important one state is to the federal election.
Job losses are looming as Arcadium Lithium reveals it will put a West Australian mine site on ‘care and maintenance’.
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.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has unleashed on the Big Australian as she amped up her defence of escalating union action in the resources sector.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.