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BHP to pay $390m to settle tax bill dispute over Singapore business

The issue relates to the amount of tax BHP owed for selling its Australian commodities via its Singapore marketing business — or allegedly shifting its profits offshore.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 19, 2018 | 6:55 am

Vale told to pay $26.8m in damages to indigenous tribes

The company's Onça Puma nickel mines blamed for contaminating the Catete river, which prosecutors said had a "severe" impact on the Xikrin and Kayapo tribes.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 19, 2018 | 3:28 am

China’s fight against smog makes palladium 2018’s best metal

Palladium prices are shattering record highs.

Bloomberg News | November 18, 2018 | 4:15 pm

Montana Resources uses high tech to solve bird problem

Since the mid-1990s, the company has run a waterfowl observation and hazing program at its 182-hectare Berkeley Pit but in late 2016, several thousand snow geese died at the toxic pit.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 18, 2018 | 11:48 am

Iran to develop small-scale gold mines

The Hassan Rouhani government is kickstarting a program for the revitalization, activation, and development of the country’s artisanal mines.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 18, 2018 | 9:54 am

Can central banks go broke? A question for India: Andy Mukherjee

Raiding a little more than half of the $95 billion foreign-currency and gold revaluation account would force the RBI to sell an identical proportion of the related assets, or $190 billion. That would trigger a “cataclysmic deflationary shock” for the economy.

Bloomberg News | November 18, 2018 | 9:09 am