May 29, 2012

Fly-in Fly-out Australian miners to blame for rise in STIs

The Australian Medical Association says fly-in fly-out work in Queensland has led significant increases in sexually transmitted infections in mining communities.

May 29, 2012

Why a remote area in Canada is poised to become one of the world’s major iron ore producing regions

The Labrador trough. An infographic.

May 29, 2012

Traditional owners greenlight NT iron ore mine

Traditional owners in the Gulf of Carpentaria region of the Northern Territory have given their approval to a proposed iron ore mine.

May 28, 2012

Centrex boosts iron ore reserves in new Australia frontier

Iron ore company Centrex Metals on Friday more than tripled the estimated reserves at its prospect in southern Australia, a growing zone for new iron ore sources that is attracting…

May 28, 2012

Chinese coal, iron ore defaults prompt mystery

Over the last two weeks, Chinese consumers of thermal coal and iron ore have been defaulting on their contracts, sending prices sharply down.

May 28, 2012

An ‘abundance’ of targets for asteroid miners

"Space is big. Really Big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely, mind-bogglingly big," as the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy once noted. About the only thing nearly as big,…

May 28, 2012

Singapore-based iron ore platform to compete with China’s beginning on Wednesday

A second major physical iron ore trading platform, supported by major mining companies and Chinese steelmakers will launch this Wednesday, competing directly with China's new own platform in a race…

May 28, 2012

Australian mining community outraged by government’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the…

May 27, 2012

Big miners playing game of chicken as marginal producers sink below break-even

Smaller miners are waiting for production cutbacks by the market leaders to prop up prices the way Saudi-Arabia comes to the rescue of oil producing nations whenever the crude price…

May 27, 2012

Granted first ever right to hire foreign workers Friday. Saturday shuns 14,000 locals queuing at jobs expo

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting which is hiring 1,700 foreign workers for the Roy Hill iron mine were absent from the Australian mining association job fair in Perth and so were…