Shipping gauge shows iron ore, copper prices heading for fall

The Australian government launched a Resources Sector Jobs Board so employers can prove they made the job widely available to citizens before they apply for guest workers.

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has condemned unions, saying they are running a nonsensical "race-based" campaign.

“The economics of some of these projects has changed,” he said. “I think for the next two years, 18 months perhaps, we will just wait and see how things develop.”

The IIED report urges the sector to move from improving its standards in principle to actually implementing them in practice.

Consulting firm says the top 40 global mining firms earned a record profit of $133 billion last year driven mainly by iron ore, however their market capitalization fell by 25%.

At the moment the draft legislation requires mining companies to disclose on a project-by-project basis what they pay local officials in foreign countries.

Australia’s Queensland government has snubbed a United Nations report demanding Australia act to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

There are "growing signs" that Outer Harbour  will take precedence over BHP's massive Olympic Dam project and the greenfield Jansen potash venture in Canada.

The prospectus giving details of the creation of a $90 billion mining and commodities trading behemoth will finally find its way to the inboxes of shareholders today.