South Australia mining production tunnels past $5.4 billion amid commodity price boom

First production from the $5.3 billion underground expansion of Oyu Tolgoi was originally scheduled for early 2020.

Iron shipments fell about 5 percent, hurt by planned maintenance and safety pauses across all operations following a fatality.

BHP has agreed to pay 45 pence per SolGold share.

Sanjiv Manchanda replaces Cliff Lawrenson as named CEO in overhaul.

No one will be taking alumina for granted any more.

Overall project engineering at the 270,000 ounce-a-year Guyere gold project, which is already more than A$100 million over its original budget of A$507 million, is now 96 percent complete

Ask four Australians why the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching, and you’ll hear four different answers.

The company also said it would reconfigure the mining methods used at Hail Creek, a process that will be phased in over the next 18 months.

A new report prepared for the Minerals Council of Australia forecasts that the demand for metallurgical coal to 2030 will grow by over 95Mt.