June 25, 2015

BHP cuts another 140 jobs over abandoned Olympic Dam expansion plans

The cuts at the Adelaide support office for the Olympic Dam operations come about six months after BHP scrapped about 90 permanent positions and 210 contractor jobs.

June 24, 2015

Iron ore prices hit six-day highs, but rally won’t last say experts

Analysts from Goldman Sachs, Citi and ANZ predict prices will drop again below $50 a tonne.

June 24, 2015

India to ship 16.5 million tonnes of iron ore to Japan, South Korea

The government approved the renewal of agreement for supplying up to 16.5 million tonnes (MT) of high grade iron ore to steel plants in Japan and South Korea over three…

June 23, 2015

Global vision for ‘green steel’

The vision for a cleaner, greener and more productive steel industry, moved a step closer with the recent signing of an agreement with a company in China to scale-up CSIRO’s…

June 22, 2015

Setting sights on ‘invisible’ mining

In-situ recovery is a new and largely untapped frontier that could improve environmental performance and change the economics of mining.

June 19, 2015

Rio Tinto sees ‘a few years of reduced consumption of new steel’

The old cycle is playing out again.

June 19, 2015

Mayor pleads for funds from security bond to stop blowing dust

"I can feel the dust on my teeth."

June 19, 2015

The bugs that boost leaching

Bacteria, those microscopic organisms, are among the unlikely heroes for researchers and mining companies working to establish economic methods to access difficult to extract or low value ores.

June 17, 2015

Iron ore price rally just gave miners ‘false hope’

Iron ore price declines to resume as Shanghai rebar drops to record low Wednesday with bears calling rally just a blip before prices retreat to $40s again.

June 17, 2015

INFOGRAPHIC: Every Chinese overseas investment over $100m visualized

Showing over 1,250 attempted transactions, this list includes both successful and failed attempts in order to visualize the ebb and flow of Chinese investments up until mid-2014.