North Queensland could soon see it’s first working uranium mine in decades with the state government announcing it’s ready to accept applications for uranium mine projects. Mines Minister...
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Dart Mining will re-start the pre-feasibility study of the Unicorn mine project near Corryong in Victoria’s north east and could potentially have the project up and running by 2019...
Rex Minerals has won state government approval for its proposed $850 million open cut Hillside Copper Project near Ardrossan on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. The company claims the Hillside...
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...
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...