Australia suffers worst of China’s coal curbs after earlier boom

According to the legislators, international mining companies —mainly from Australia, Canada and the U.K— are using the forced labour of Eritreans in their operations.

China’s increased reliance on nuclear energy and Japan restarting its reactors are only two of the factors driving prices up.

In a first phase the miner plans to target high-grade diamond ore bodies, meeting a target of 14,000 bank cubic metres (bcm) per month.

Benchmark iron ore price drops to fresh five-and-a-half-year low after November Chinese imports fall for the first time since 1998.

The country will cut export tariffs for coal from Jan. 1 as part of broader efforts to drive economic growth.

Julian Malnic, the founder of world's first deep-sea miner Nautilus Minerals has joined the board of Deep Space Industries.

The revised plan for their jointly-owned Wafi-Golpu in PNG will require an initial capital spending cost of $2.3 billion.

The larger than life queen of coal and iron ore and her favourite daughter sit down for a feast.

BHP's first ore left Port Hedland in 1973, but 900m tonnes where shipped just over the last 12 years.