Exponential expansion of global mining is the dirty little secret and glaring blind spot of Green New Deal evangelists and zero-carbon climate warriors

The Australian miner is still targeting 2019 to start Colluli potash project execution.

Delays in EPBC decisions are estimated to cost the economy around $300 million a year and frustrate both business and environmental groups.

Opinion: Mining companies are generally quite good at promoting social projects undertaken in the communities in which they operate, but full disclosure could show how much the mining companies' support was compared to the total income of these communities.

Newcrest is tapping big data and block caving to delve deeper into the earth's crust for mineral riches that just a handful of years ago would have been too costly to extract.