Former BlueScope Steel boss Mark Vassella has come full circle after being appointed to the board of BHP.
Adrian Rauso
WA miners should be ‘quietly celebrating’ court orders for Fortescue to pay the Yindjibarndi $150.1 million, compensation which Andrew Forrest wants his company to pay ‘tomorrow if given the opportunity’.
Gina Rinehart and Angela Bennett’s long-running court battle over Pilbara iron ore royalty riches may not be over quite yet.
Daniel Newell
Bill Beament’s Develop Global has been cast aside for Perenti subsidiary Barminco, which scooped up a $850 million job in the Goldfields.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
A mining giant owned by billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has been ordered to pay $150m in compensation after a court found it destroyed Indigenous cultural sites.
Emma Kirk
The Yindjibarndi people have been awarded the largest-ever payout for economic and spiritual loss after more than a decade of Fortescue mining iron ore on native title land in the Pilbara.
Hannah Cross
An Aboriginal community will learn whether it will be compensated for the alleged cultural and economic destruction caused by a huge mine on its land.
Aaron Bunch
Rox Resources is charging toward restarting the Youanmi gold project south-east of Mt Magnet.
Neil Watkinson
The binding agreement comes just a day before the Federal Court rules on a multibillion-dollar battle between the Yindjibarndi and Fortescue.
Hackers last week penetrated some of the defences of Scope Systems’ cloud computing infrastructure and were believed to be holding sensitive data to ransom.
Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country.
Staff Writers
A key WA Budget estimate that laid bare the staggering price of the Labor Government’s refusal to adopt one of its own recommendations has vanished.
A one-month surge in copper prices sent Rio Tinto shares to a record $252 billion valuation this week, amid rising bets inflation will push commodities higher.
Tom Richardson
Hawk Resources has reached an agreement for mineral exploration at the Olympus scandium project near the Northern Territory border after an on-country meeting with native title holders and traditional owners.
A company with two small gold deposits east of Leonora is charging toward production after approval of its mine development and closure proposal.
WA’s environmental watchdog has given its blessing for a lithium mine expansion to go ahead, provided feral cats and foxes are killed to offset vegetation clearing.
Australia’s BHP, the biggest mining company in the world, has been found liable for a deadly dam collapse in Brazil.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Former Fortescue chief executive Elizabeth Gaines has offloaded most of her shareholding in the Andrew Forrest-founded iron ore miner.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
The State Government will host a mining industry summit to reaffirm its ongoing commitment to drive cultural change across WA’s resources sector and eliminate inappropriate behaviour from its workplaces.
The Iran war is a doubled-edged sword for Rio Tinto, with supply chain pressures offset by booming demand for minerals and metals thanks to global ‘fragmentation’ at a ‘60-year high’.
A British court found BHP was responsible for the collapse of a Brazilian dam in 2015, and the mining giant's bid to appeal the decision has now been rejected.
Sam Tobin
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Fraser Williams
It comes two days after The West Australian revealed that a major round of redundancies is underway at Rio’s de-facto iron ore headquarters on St Georges Terrace.
Amanda Lacaze used what was likely her last public speech as Lynas CEO to rebuff the ‘boofhead’ image of mining and warn that power outages could plague her company’s Kalgoorlie refinery for years to come.
