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The sustained crash in uranium prices is forcing BHP to keep its mammoth $30 billion Olympic Dam mine expansion on hold, as the firm battles market conditions to keep current operations afloat. In...
Thirty-seven Broken Hill miners and 14 contractors have been sacked from CBH Resources’ Rasp mine leases near the New South Wales/South Australian border. Despite the sackings representing a...
Cougar Energy has been fined $75,000 in the Brisbane Magistrates Court over the rupture of a production well which resulted in groundwater contamination 10 kilometres south of Kingaroy in 2010. The...
The death of a worker last month has prompted Fortescue Metals Group to invoke their contractual right to take back management of its Christmas Creek ore processing plant from contractor Crushing...
Four companies have been recognised at the NSW Mining Excellence Awards for implementing high quality projects that can be shared across the industry. BHP Billiton Mt Arthur Coal has been recognised...
Chinese firm MMG has decided to close Australia’s largest, and the world’s third largest, open cut zinc mine in 2016, reports ABC. “Australia is seen as being increasingly expensive. A...
Arrium mining has announced it will proceed with plans to develop the Iron Knob deposit near Whyalla in South Australia. Iron Knob is the birthplace of the steel industry in South Australia and was...
The expansion of the coal seam gas industry is firmly in the sights of freshly minted federal Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, with NSW farmers the first to receive a visit from the Queensland MP...
A Land Court case against the proposed Galilee Coal Project, in Queensland, was launched yesterday by a consortium of environmental groups. Expected to last up to three weeks, GVK Hancock will defend...
