October 16, 2018

Rio Tinto delays start of Oyu Tolgoi expansion due to technical issues

First production from the $5.3 billion underground expansion of Oyu Tolgoi was originally scheduled for early 2020.

October 15, 2018

Rio Tinto Says Q3 production falls on planned maintenance and safety pauses

Iron shipments fell about 5 percent, hurt by planned maintenance and safety pauses across all operations following a fatality.

October 15, 2018

BHP raises stake in promising Ecuador copper project

BHP has agreed to pay 45 pence per SolGold share.

October 15, 2018

Mineral industry needs to change its exploration and financing model if dearth of green fields discoveries to be overcome

Australia’s chronic shortage of Greenfields mineral discoveries can only be overcome by changing the sector’s exploration, financing and training models, according to a keynote speaker at a major international geoscience…

October 15, 2018

Australia’s Atlas Iron names ex-Hancock executive CEO in board overhaul

Sanjiv Manchanda replaces Cliff Lawrenson as named CEO in overhaul.

October 15, 2018

Alumina wake-up call for the aluminium supply chain

No one will be taking alumina for granted any more.

October 15, 2018

Mining at Gold Road and Gold Fields JV in Australia to start next month

Overall project engineering at the 270,000 ounce-a-year Guyere gold project, which is already more than A$100 million over its original budget of A$507 million, is now 96 percent complete

October 15, 2018

Australia wrestles with saving the Great Barrier Reef

Ask four Australians why the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching, and you’ll hear four different answers.

October 15, 2018

More than 400 jobs to go at Glencore’s Hail Creek coal mine

The company also said it would reconfigure the mining methods used at Hail Creek, a process that will be phased in over the next 18 months.

October 14, 2018

Australia’s coal sector hopeful

A new report prepared for the Minerals Council of Australia forecasts that the demand for metallurgical coal to 2030 will grow by over 95Mt.