BHP closer to exiting oil and gas with Woodside merger talks

Aurelia Metals is in talks with the Swiss miner and commodity trader about a possible acquisition of CSA underground mine, which produced 48,000 tonnes of copper concentrate last year.

Production dropped 6% in the quarter.

Clive Palmer, who made his fortune in mining, is running for the Senate on his right-of-center United Australia Party ticket.

China will maintain a slowdown in coal imports from Australia until Beijing has assessed government policy in Canberra after federal elections in May.

Solar and wind farms are being developed or built in places not normally associated with clean energy, and in some regions long resistant to it.

The document divides operations into six levels, from zero (entirely manual) to five (fully autonomous), and assists in the preparation of a business case for autonomous mining, depending on level and needs.

The announcement came as the London Metal Exchange (LME) launched an initiative under which it could ban or delist brands that are not responsibly sourced by 2022.

The 28-carat diamond, named Argyle Octavia, will be auctioned in Antwerp, Belgium.

The Minerals Council of Australia issued a communiqué following Scott Morrison’s comments where he said he would be okay with receiving proposals from the nuclear energy industry.