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An investigation is underway at a Queensland copper mine after two men suffered serious burns from a steam vent.
Anglo American has told BHP it needs to dig deeper into its wallet if it wants the British mining giant’s prized copper mines.
US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy has backed the Prime Minister’s manufacturing push as a move she says will help make Australian mining more resilient after her recent warning the sector was ‘under assault’.
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Despite bullish long-term forecasts, lithium has been languishing near two-year lows as demand fails to keep pace. WA is leading the global charge into new developments, but how much is it willing to gamble?
BHP will need to fork out more than $40.5 billion in its quest to snare Anglo American, according to top global mining analysts, as the Big Australian’s audacious play gets rejected by the British giant.
Copper-hungry BHP has handed Anglo American a $59.6 billion takeover offer in a move that could spark a mammoth shake-up of the mining industry.
The massive gold operation that claimed its second life in the space of 18 months — and WA’s first mine site death of 2024 — has fallen foul of the safety regulator 10 times in the past two years.
A young man who was killed while at work on a mine site in the Goldfields has been remembered as a ‘beautiful soul’ as authorities investigate the circumstances of his death.
A 21-year-old man has died at an Australian gold mine — the second death at the site in just 18 months.
Bad weather and a train derailment on Fortescue’s Pilbara rail network just a day before the end of 2023 battered iron ore exports from the Andrew Forrest-led miner in the first three months of the new year.
Gina Rinehart’s handshake agreement to spend up to $US120 million on an early-stage copper find in Ecuador adds to a growing tally of purchases in South America by the mining billionaire.
BHP says a decision on the fate of its WA nickel assets is still a few months away as it continues to assess their longer-term viability amid a market beaten down by a flood of cheap supply from Indonesia.
US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy has taken a veiled swipe at the state-owned Chinese mining companies in Indonesia squeezing WA local nickel producers out of the market.
Australia’s richest person has set the stage for reinvigorated merger talks between Lynas Rare Earths and its US peer MP Materials.
Aluminium and nickel surged on the London Metal Exchange as traders responded to new US and UK sanctions that banned deliveries of any Russian supplies produced after midnight on Friday.