Mining

It’s understood six people were injured.

Heavy rainfall brought by Cyclone Sean has flooded a crucial piece of Rio Tinto infrastructure that could be out of action for up to a month, impacting the mining giant’s output for the quarter.

BHP has reportedly sacked dozens of contractors amid an investigation into allegations of corruption. 

Fortescue has stuck to full-year targets after cranking out record half-year shipments from the Pilbara and finding some momentum at the long-troubled Iron Bridge operation.

Santos has deferred plans for a $3 billion-plus oil and gas project in WA.

Copper has emerged as BHP’s hero commodity for the first half of the year, lifting production by 10 per cent while iron ore tonnes stayed relatively subdued amid weaker demand. 

The mining world will be altered drastically if whispers of a tie up between Rio Tinto and Glencore are true.

Rio Tinto and Glencore have been discussing combining their businesses, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could result in the mining industry’s largest-ever deal.

A mining hopeful’s stock is on the rise again after the United States started putting pen to paper for a Greenland purchase.

A project backed by billionaire Gina Rinehart is marking a major milestone in developing a sustainable supply chain for electric cars by harnessing geothermal energy.

US energy goliath Exxon Mobil is using a defamation lawsuit to claim Andrew Forrest planned to act unlawfully and has put the billionaire’s charity arm in its crosshairs.

An AustralianSuper-backed graphite miner whose Mozambique operations are gridlocked by widespread political uproar has been granted some reprieve by its US Government lenders.

The post-stimulus bump looks like a false dawn. China won’t get Australia out of an economic hole.

The asset swap is set to streamline Woodside’s portfolio and open it up to further growth opportunities, says CEO Meg O’Neill.

Mineral Resources and its besieged boss Chris Ellison are fighting claims by an in-house lawyer that she was ousted for allegedly raising cultural concerns.