Chile’s lithium giant SQM sees prices falling further this year

BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto won’t be following Australia’s richest person and number four on the list of the world of mining's billionaires Gina Rinehart’s plan to import foreign workers under enterprise migration agreements (EMAs).

The Newman Government has given the green light to what will be one of Australia’s biggest mines, the $6.4 billion Alpha Coal Project in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.

Xstrata is paying nearly a million dollars into a program to improve the wellbeing of retired and injured miners.

Australian copper producer OZ Minerals has struck a deal with Canada's International PBX Ventures for a 90% interest in the Copaquire copper-molybdenum property in Chile.

Australia’s decision to grant first ever right to hire foreign workers at the Roy Hill project in the Pilbara on Friday has sparked heated critics by local unions and the mining community.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting which is hiring 1,700 foreign workers for the Roy Hill iron mine were absent from the Australian mining association job fair in Perth and so were the $9.8 billion project's main contractors.

Hoping to cash on the booming mining industry in Australia and the need for foreign workers, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) has announced a step into Australia’s growing mining industry with its new brand offering, Resource Travel Management (RTM).

Australia’s government announced Friday it will allow a new mine to hire about 1,700 foreign workers to alleviate a labour shortage threatening the resources boom.

More than $1 billion in both Aboriginal joint venture and direct business contracts for Rio Tinto's Pilbara expansion projects have now been awarded over the last two years. The milestone was reached with the announcement of a $55 million earthworks...