Mining

AMEC's Warren Pearce, CME's Rebecca Tomkinson and CCIWA's Aaron Morey outside Parliament House ahead of the hearing.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Business groups slam Nature Positive laws in fiery hearing

Australia’s businesses are increasingly united against Federal Labor’s radical environmental law reforms, with one lobby group boss stating job opportunities will be whittled down to taxis and cafes.

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Fortescue founder and chair Andrew Forrest.
Mining
Daniel Newell and Simone Grogan

Electricity cost barrier to making FMG’s green dream reality

Fortescue’s energy boss Mark Hutchinson is resolute on green hydrogen despite an admission electricity cost targets for projects in Australia are ‘not possible’ right now.

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Rio Tinto, 360 Mt/a ceremony at Cape Lambert, Cape Lambert, WA, Australia
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Rio Tinto notches up mind-blowing China export milestone

Rio Tinto says it has now exported enough iron ore from the Pilbara to China to build about 45,000 Sydney Harbour Bridges.

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Mining giants have directly appealed to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the Nature Positive reform plan.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Secret letter to PM shows depth of Nature Positive concern

Corporate heavyweights have bypassed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in a private appeal to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to intervene on Labor’s controversial Nature Positive Plan.

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Billionaire Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest's Fortescue has announced plans to axe 700 jobs.
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Mining
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan

Fortescue axes 700 jobs as Forrest slows green dream

Fortescue is making hundreds of white-collar workers redundant as Andrew Forrest concedes the mining giant will have to break a key green hydrogen promise.

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BHP reported a 2 per cent rise in iron ore production from its Pilbara operations of 287 million tonnes.
Business
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

BHP hits new highs in iron ore, copper production jumps

BHP has capped off the year with record iron ore production and strong output from other commodities across its global resources portfolio, including its highest copper production result in 15 years.

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The Warren Pearce-led industry group emphasised there would be “severe implications” for new mining projects.
Australia
Simone Grogan

How ‘severe’ Nature Positive laws could cripple mining

The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies has argued the furore about a lack of consultation on Nature Positive has masked real concerns from industry about the contents of the contested reform.

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Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest. AAP
Mining

Another top exec quits Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue has lost yet another senior executive, with Asia Pacific energy boss Eva Hanly understood to have parted ways with the company.

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Rio Tinto’s Simandou iron ore project in West Africa.
Mining
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell

Rio Tinto free to pull trigger on ‘Pilbara killer’ project

Rio Tinto has been given a clear runway to spend $9.2 billion on developing a mega West African mine that could dethrone the Pilbara’s iron ore supremacy.

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Westgold CEO Wayne Bramwell at WA Mining Club lunch at Optus Stadium
Business
Adrian Rauso

Nickel’s labour pain is a gain for Australian gold producers

There’s been a silver lining from the implosion of the local nickel mining industry for WA’s gold producers needing all hands on deck to capitalise on the precious metal’s record price.

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Madeleine King is backing the Big Australian’s belief that the nickel market can perform an about-turn.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

BHP’s nickel support better than first hoped: Minister

Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King says BHP’s decision to mothball its WA Nickel business is ‘disappointing’ but agrees with the Big Australian’s belief that the nickel market can do a U-turn.

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Fly-in, fly-out aircraft operator Alliance Aviation is bracing for a multimillion-dollar hit to its bottom line after BHP revealed it would mothball its vast WA Nickel portfolio.
Mining
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso

FIFO airline among those hit by Nickel West pause

Fly-in, fly-out aircraft operator Alliance Aviation is bracing for a multimillion-dollar hit to its bottom line after BHP revealed it would mothball its vast WA Nickel portfolio.

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Rescuers transport an injured miner to an airborne ambulance near the Rydultowy coal mine near the city of Rybnik, in southern Poland,
World
Staff Writers

One dead another missing after earth tremor in coal mine

A tremor struck the mine, trapping coal miners under the ground and killing one.

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BHP Australia president Geraldine Slattery says the Big Australian is “committed” to bringing WA Nickel back into production.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

BHP boss bullish on Nickel West return after 2027

BHP’s Australia chief believes the nickel market could turn a corner by 2028 and says a tight labour market in Australia will help the Big Australian absorb many of the 3000 WA Nickel castaways.

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BHP Nickel West's nickel sulphate plant at the Kwinana refinery.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

BHP puts Nickel West on ice until at least 2027

BHP is putting its Nickel West arm on care and maintenance until at least 2027 and is promising to offer new jobs to its 3000 workers at the WA asset.

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