Rio Tinto halts rail, mine operations in Western Australia as cyclone hits

The career of a mining engineer - from education to salary information.

The CEO of world number two miner Rio Tinto said the quality of Chinese mining equipment is catching up and in some instances surpassing that of the major US manufacturers.

Hint: He lost about 99% of his wealth this year.

South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill, has reproached the federal government for saying BHP could resume its Olympic Dam expansion within months, calling it a "cruel hoax."

Employment in the mining sector will rise by 7.4% over the next four years, with the oil and gas sector providing the largest number of new jobs

Statement after annual planning meeting warns of "downward pressure" on the world's second largest economy and the need to take "bold steps" to reform industry.

Investors want federal authorities to examine the role of regulators and the stock exchange in OGX collapse.

Cutifani said the firm has identified three "buckets" from which it plans to extract about $3.9 billion of extra earnings.

Terrorism, regime instability and resource nationalism, are the main risks mining investors will face in 2014.