Engineering contractors, Monadelphous Group, has secured a major iron ore construction contract with Sino Iron at the Sino Iron Project, located at Cape Preston near Karratha in Western Australia...
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The Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara has now advanced past the 50% completion stage, with Chair of Roy Hill, Gina Rinehart, claiming that 75 percent of the budget has, so far, gone to...
BHP Billiton has applied to the federal government for approval to trial a new mining method that could see the Olympic Dam copper/uranium expansion in South Australia back in action. The Australian...
Adani’s massive $16.5 billion Carmichael coal mine and rail project, north west of Clermont in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, has just received the green light to begin construction after...
The volume of Australia’s resources (mineral and fuels) exports grew over 10 per cent in 2013 – almost double the annual rate of the last decade – according to statistics released...
A pile of burning waste rock at Glencore’s McArthur River Mine is sending plumes of smoke into the air, angering nearby communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria area of the Northern Territory. The ABC...
A $70million rail expansion, expected to help lift exports by almost 25 per cent, was launched in Western Australia on Wednesday by WA Mines Minister Bill Marmion. The new fleet of trains will...
The future of iron ore and coking coal, used in the manufacture of steel, could be looking up with the World Steel Association forecasting that global steel production will increase by up to 3.4 per...
SMW Group has won Queensland’s inaugural Mining Contractor of the Year Awards at a glittering celebration in Mackay last night. Organiser of the Awards, the Bowen Basin Mining Club, hailed...
BHP Billiton recorded a nine per cent increase in overall production and also achieved output records at 12 operations in the last 2013-14 financial year. On release of the company’s...
A share of Glencore’s NCA coal project, which includes the Newlands and Collinsville mines in Central Queensland, are up for sale as Japanese investors, Itochu and Sumitomo, look to reduce...
Election of new Indonesian president encouraging for foreign investment in energy and mining sectors
Joko Widodo’s victory over opponent Prawbowo Subianto in the Indonesian presidential election yesterday could mean increased activity in Indonesia’s oil and gas sector with the new...
