August 31, 2011 Australia’s Whitehaven shares fall after stake selldowns Private equity groups First Reserve Corp and AMCI International have sold A$390 million ($416 million) worth of shares in Australian miner Whitehaven Coal , which failed to find a buyer…
August 31, 2011 $5B deal for Australian coal company long awaited The deal for Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private-sector coal company, and a partner to buy Australia's Macarthur Coal for more than $5 billion concludes more than a year of…
August 30, 2011 Anglo American could lose out to Mittal on Macarthur Coal Anglo American is poised to lose out in the A$4.9bn (3.2bn) takeover tussle for Macarthur Coal after the Australian company recommended a sweetened offer from a consortium of US-based Peabody…
August 30, 2011 Wesfarmers selects ThoroughTec to support Curragh rampup As one of Australia’s largest independent coal producers, Westfarmers Curragh has made further investments into site safety, training and operational efficiency in the way it inducts, trains and up-skills new…
August 30, 2011 Perilya beats the odds BASE metals producer Perilya has posted a 15% jump in profit for the first half of the 2011 calendar year, despite the robust Australian dollar and weakening zinc and lead…
August 30, 2011 Auzex, GGG agree on merger to move ahead with WA gold project PERTH (miningweekly.com) Joint venture partners Auzex Resources and GGG Resources have finally buried the hatchet over control of the Bullabulling gold project, with the two agreeing to set up and…
August 30, 2011 Coal sector questions Grattan’s findings on carbon tax impact The Australian Coal Association (ACA) today questioned the results of the Grattan Institute research on the impact of the proposed carbon tax on the coal, LNG and steel industries.
August 30, 2011 Hiking our fair value estimate for BHP Billiton We are increasing our fair value estimate for BHP Billiton (BLT) by 5% and maintain our positive stance. Very strong cash flows leave the balance sheet in better shape than…
August 30, 2011 Macarthur Coal backs sweetened Peabody, Arcelor offer Australia's Macarthur Coal has backed a slightly sweetened A$4.9 billion ($5.2 billion) takeover offer from Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal . Peabody and ArcelorMittal raised their offer by 3 percent to…
August 29, 2011 China to import about 66% of Australian ore, Tracking Data Show China will import about 66% of the iron ore loaded in the week ended Aug. 25 at Australia’s two largest export facilities, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
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