The decision furthers BHP's push to exit its coal operations in Queensland.

Move will result in the loss of about 1,000 jobs, though it will keep its refinery and smelters open in North Queensland.

Planned maintenance activities at the miner's Cadia, Telfer, Brucejack projects resulted in a lower throughput.

The company generates 70% of its profit through its iron ore operations.

Albemarle has walked away from its $4.2 billion takeover of Liontown Resources after Australia’s richest woman built up a blocking minority.

Kupferschiefer project aims to revisit archive geological data and reinterpret it using petroleum and mineral system approaches, creating maps of mineral prospective areas within the Central European Basin.