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One Nation gas shutdown will cost jobs

A One Nation proposal to dramatically cut gas supplies in far south-west Queensland will push up electricity prices and cost jobs. State Development Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said revelations that...

Western Australian Premier Urged Not To Increase Gold Royalty Rates

MNM confirms gold extension at Stacpoole

Mantle Mining Corporation (ASX: MNM) has extended the gold mineralisation at its high-grade Morning Star and Rose of Denmark gold mines in eastern Victoria. The current drilling program has targeted...

Mongolian court jails Australian mine executive

Story: The Australian   An Australian mining executive whose company received money from an 1MDB subsidiary in Malaysia has seen a conflict with a prominent Mongolian family result in an 11-year...

Matsa Buys Red October in Western Australia

Goldfields miner Saracen Mineral Holdings has sold the Red October mine to Matsa Resources in a $1 million cash deal. Matsa will pay $1 million in cash and 4.5 million shares at a deemed issue price...

Gas Pipeline from WA to the East Coast

source: The West Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has thrown his support behind a new pipeline linking WA’s gas fields to the strained markets of the east coast, saying the State has...

Rio Tinto unveils new $2.5 billion share buy-back

Rio Tinto has committed an additional $2.5 billion to its ongoing share buy-back programme, returning the proceeds of the sale of Coal & Allied to its shareholders. The capital return programme...

Boosting Victoria’s Renewable Energy Industry

The Andrews Labor Government has announced $100,000 to increase production of an innovative renewable energy management product produced by Australian Wind and Solar. Australian Wind and Solar are...

22,000 potential pumped hydro sites in Australia

The Australian National University (ANU) has completed an audit of 22,000 potential sites across Australia for pumped hydro energy storage, which can be used to support a secure and cheap national...

MINERALS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA CEO TO STEP DOWN

Brendan Pearson will step down as the Chief Executive of the Minerals Council of Australia next month after more than nine years in senior roles with the organisation. Brendan has been Chief...

More potential pumped hydro storage sites identified

Over 18,000 sites across New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory have been identified as possible locations for pumped hydro energy storage. The sites have been...

Queensland renewable energy boom continues 

Treasurer and Acting Energy Minister Curtis Pitt has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to visit some of Queensland’s state of the art wind, solar and hydro renewable energy projects during...