Rio Tinto boosts budget for Citadel copper project

On the 5th of September, the AusIMM Southern Queensland Student Chapter (SQSC) held the chapter’s annual BHP Billiton Local Mining Games at The University of Queensland’s Experimental Mine in Indooroopilly, a suburb of Brisbane.

The move aims to reduce the gold producer's dependence on unreliable electricity supply from state-run utility Eskom Holdings.

BHP’s coal chief believes the commodity is likely to remain under pressure for a while.

Number five is a single pit that produces 77 million tonnes of iron ore per year.

The alleged deals involve Glencore's Collahausi mine in Chile, as well as Antamina and Antapaccay copper mines in Peru.

More than a dozen energy companies have been pressing U.S. authorities to lift the nation's four-decade moratorium on oil exports.

The Minerals Council of Australia asked Turnbull to use his advocacy skills and economic know-how to help the struggling mining sector.

Carroll, who led Anglo American from 2007 to 2013, will chair the company’s Vedanta Resources Holdings Ltd. unit and advise the group’s chairman.

The share sale is set to reduce the company’s net debt by a third to around $20 billion by the end of 2016.