December 24, 2012 Potash West lodges provisional patent application for processing breakthrough Potash West is working on its revolutionary glauconite-to-fertiliser Dandaragan Trough project located to the north of Perth in Western Australia.
December 23, 2012 Mining costs soar as productivity languishes, superfluous staff proliferate Excess sub-contractors and outdated construction techniques lead to cost blowouts and project delays
December 22, 2012 BHP rejects $50 million offer for Port Hedland resort BHP Billiton has turned down a AUD 50 million offer from a consortium of investors for a collapsed resort project at Port Hedland. BHP's move is expected to lead to…
December 22, 2012 Iluka appoints 2 new non-executive directors to board Iluka Resources has appointed James Hutchison Ranck and Greg Martin as non-executive directors to its board.
December 21, 2012 Chinese withdraw from $3bn iron ore project in Western Australia State-owned company to shut its Perth office and withdraw most of its staff
December 21, 2012 Resource nationalism assumes more insidious forms Tactics shift from frank expropriation of assets to increased royalties and stricter procurement requirements
December 21, 2012 B2Gold to merge with CGA Mining Vancouver’s B2Gold, one of Business in Vancouver’s top three fastest-growing companies this year, announced that its shareholders voted to approve the company’s merger with CGA Mining, based in Perth, Australia.
December 20, 2012 A coal factsheet for the future Here are some of the other startling highlights from the IEA’s Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2012 Factsheet.
December 20, 2012 Despite 2012 commodities slump emerging market demand set to fuel higher, more volatile prices "In a resource-constrained world, value creation moves towards the owners of resources" is the conclusion of a new report from McKinsey
December 20, 2012 Chinese coal giant’s goliath mine in Queensland to dwarf regional peers AUD$5bn development will export four times more coal than the largest mine in Central Queensland at present
Copper price racks up longest rally since 2017 with bulls at the helm Futures have rallied by more than 40% this year, setting up the biggest annual advance since 2009. December 30, 2025 | 09:12 am
