The deal still requires the approval of Australia’s regulatory bodies and the copper-gold miner shareholders, who are set to vote in April.

Researchers are adapting plant 'membrane separation mechanisms' so they can be embedded in wastewater recycling technologies.

BHP is building Jansen in stages, with the first one estimated to cost $5.7 billion and yield 4.35 million tonnes of potash per year.

The discovery by Swedish state-owned miner LKAB could help the continent break away from China’s dominance in the sector.

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global energy.