One battery material sector is cheering for lower prices

Worries over an economic slowdown in the world's largest iron ore importer have contributed to the 21% drop of iron ore prices so far this year.

Levels of conflict and political violence have risen significantly in 48 countries, most of them considered traditional mining destinations.

The autonomous trucks cut costs by reducing the need to house, feed and employ four drivers.

The company invested in Aquila in 2009 to help fund its iron ore project and a separate coking coal mine.

It consists 44 pieces of artwork valued at more than US$1 million, and is on display at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in the Netherlands.

The UN body is especially worried about Australia's decision to allow dredging and dumping of 3 million tonnes of dredge spoil in reef waters, as part of a coal port expansion.

Oakajee could have enable the region's iron ore miners to be one of the major suppliers of the steel-making material to Asia.

Melbourne-based company sets profit and production records from mines in New Zealand and the Philippines. Stock is already up 67% in 2014.

The decision comes only a few days after a prominent wildlife biologist said the presence of extractive companies in the Tarkine will have minimal impacts on the endangered animal.