Australian Aboriginal group opposes billionaire miner’s plan to build dams

BHP forecasts reforms in China’s steel sector will continue to hand an advantage to suppliers of higher-quality iron ore and coking coal as consumption of the alloy keeps growing well into the next decade.

The miner said it had begun depositing tailings into the Cadia Hill open pit over the weekend.

Kidman Resources has chosen a site in Kwinana, Western Australia with Chilean joint venture partner SQM to develop a lithium processing plant.

Automated mining technologies require governments and the mining industry to consider how efficiency gains will change local mining communities.

The materials industry, which includes miners, trails all other sectors in the Bloomberg World Index on rates of female participation.

Rio Tinto shareholders that voted in favour of a resolution calling the miner to review its membership of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and other lobby groups.

The 46-carat pink diamond is the largest coloured gem-quality stone ever recovered at the company's Lulo project.

Anglo American Plc, Glencore Plc and BHP Billiton Ltd. are generating the highest profits in years from their coal mines.

Driverless trucks at the same iron ore operations already haul over a quarter of both ore and waste material.