May 1, 2014

UNESCO to place Great Barrier in high risk list unless Australia steps up protection efforts

The UN body is especially worried about Australia's decision to allow dredging and dumping of 3 million tonnes of dredge spoil in reef waters, as part of a coal port…

April 30, 2014

Padbury Mining walks away from $6.5bn Oakajee iron ore port and rail project

Oakajee could have enable the region's iron ore miners to be one of the major suppliers of the steel-making material to Asia.

April 29, 2014

Wave of buying sends OceanaGold shares surging again

Melbourne-based company sets profit and production records from mines in New Zealand and the Philippines. Stock is already up 67% in 2014.

April 29, 2014

Aussie iron ore miner wins approval despite alleged risks for Tasmanian devil

The decision comes only a few days after a prominent wildlife biologist said the presence of extractive companies in the Tarkine will have minimal impacts on the endangered animal.

April 28, 2014

Iron ore price plunges to 6-week low, producers hammered

Iron ore price drops 2.2% as stockpiles in China surge to new record and worries over country's property market mounts.

April 27, 2014

Newly-discovered mineral is ‘completely unique and unrelated to anything’

Found by a junior miner working a surface outcrop in Western Australia.

April 24, 2014

Platinum strike doesn’t get to spoil Anglo American’s first quarter results

Platinum output fell by nearly 40% as a consequence of a more than three-month strike over pay in the sector South Africa.

April 24, 2014

First seabed mine to go ahead as Nautilus solves dispute with PNG

Under the agreement, the Papua New Guinea government paid Nautilus $7 million, which entitles it to a 15% stake in the project, with an option to increase it by another…

April 23, 2014

Barrick-Newmont merger could be as good as gold

The new gold giant would have a market value of $33 billion, operations on five continents, and a gold output of well over 12 million ounces a year.

April 23, 2014

BHP cuts ribbon at its $3.6bn Jimblebar iron ore mine expansion

The mine has an initial annual production capacity of 35 million tonnes and is a key part of BHP's plans to lift capacity from its Pilbara operations to 220 million…