China’s ban on Australian coal forces trade flows to realign

Pilot Mountain tungsten project said to be "quite a monster," with five-to-ten years life as a low-cost open pit and 15-year underground life after that.

Representatives from Elliott have in the last month met with major BHP investors based in London, South Africa and Australia to lay out the activist fund's arguments for an overhaul of the miner.

Ongoing concerns that looming steel production cuts in China on environmental grounds will sap steel mill demand continue to weigh on prices.

Proposal sought to raise hundreds of million of dollars in additional taxes on gold mining, but industry warned the step would spark job losses.

By tracing the air backwards in time, the scientists found that high-mercury air travelled over the Indonesian archipelago before arriving in Australia.

The Queensland Government is getting behind a pilot program that, together with an industry group, is hoping to bring thousands of mining equipment and services positions to the Bowen Basin within the next decade.

Australians opposed to the Adani Group's Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin of Queensland expressed their displeasure at the project on Saturday.

Australia’s Department of Industry, Innovation and Science sees iron ore prices averaging $50 a tonne next year, and dropping to $49 a tonne in 2019.

Lawsuit was filed last year after the miner halted payments due to a local group.