BHP shareholders to vote on fossil fuel production detail at AGM

Investment will go towards more drilling, orebody studies, infrastructure improvements and permitting activities.

It’s been a stormy month for benchmark coal prices in Asia, with the potential for reverberations across the globe.

Deal creates the world’s largest gold producer by output, robing Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy.

The centre will investigate opportunities for greater efficiencies in the extraction and refinement of battery minerals.

The rare earths miner said its board had concluded it would not engage with retail and industrial conglomerate Wesfarmers, stating its unsolicited takeover offer undervalues Lynas' intellectual property.

The miner has found further mineralization at its Cascabel copper-gold project. Cascabel is believed to have the potential to become one of the largest copper-gold assets ever discovered.

The company does not say whether this would impact shipping of the mineral.

The company has taken a step closer to the construction of the Carmichael coal mine in Australia after winning federal approval for its groundwater management plan.

Iron ore’s poised to hit $100 a ton, according to Citigroup, which highlighted “very, very low” seaborne cargoes just as data from China may show a pick-up in demand.