July 12, 2011 Coal shares gain after Macarthur bid Macarthur Coal shares soared almost 40 per cent after Peabody Energy's near $5 billion takeover bid, providing a stock price boost to others in the Australian coal sector. The shares…
July 12, 2011 Highlands Pacific: Frieda on track for BFS in January 2012 Source: News BitesHighlands Pacific Ltd announced joint venture partner Xstrata Copper has completed infill drilling at the Frieda copper gold project in PNG with an updated resource estimate due in…
July 12, 2011 Carbon, mining taxes won’t stop investment: analysts The Federal Government's sales pitch on its carbon pollution policy is getting a boost from an unlikely source - the world's biggest privately-owned coal miner.
July 12, 2011 Australian PM hails coal miner takeover bid Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hailed a takeover bid for a Queensland coal mine as proof her carbon price package won't kill off the sector. US energy giant Peabody…
July 12, 2011 Staff shortages threaten Aussie miners Chronic labour shortages in resource-rich Western Australia could put mining projects at risk, as the state struggles to plug a shortfall of skilled workers set to balloon to 150,000 by…
July 11, 2011 Carbon tax on coal hits NSW coffers hard The New South Wales government will be hundreds of millions of dollars a year worse off after the federal carbon tax deal denied compensation to the state's mainly government-owned black…
July 11, 2011 The chief executive of state-owned Solid Energy has talked critically of Pike River Coal The chief executive of state-owned Solid Energy has talked critically of Pike River Coal at the Royal Commission of Inquiry this afternoon.
July 11, 2011 W Australia on Irish recruitment drive Chronic labour shortages in resource-rich Western Australia could put mining projects at risk, as the state struggles to plug a shortfall of skilled workers set to balloon to 150,000 by…
July 11, 2011 Australia to catch up with Europe as carbon tax details emerge Australian businesses are reacting to the details of a new carbon tax which has been lauded by environmentalists as historic but condemned as economic madness by critics. Despite the criticism,…
July 11, 2011 New Zealand inquiry hears testimony into cause of coal mine explosion that killed 29 workers WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Financial pressures may have led a New Zealand coal mining operation to overextend itself before an explosion killed 29 workers last year, an energy executive testified…
South32 posts nearly 17% jump in quarterly manganese output The world's biggest manganese producer produced 1.3 million wet metric tons of the steel additive for the December quarter. January 21, 2026 | 02:06 pm
