Dorado: Australia’s biggest oil discovery this century

Stricter environmental rules on new mining projects, combined with soaring labour costs, are making Vale SA, the world's leading iron ore exporter, less competitive against Australian rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

Rio Tinto PLC RIO -2.50% has unveiled its latest iron ore mine development plans to start the construction next year of its Turee Syncline project in Western Australia, according to referral documents posted Friday on the Australian government's environmental website.

Workers at Australia's Bowen Basin coal mines, owned jointly by BHP Billiton and Mitsubishi, have once again given strike notice.

Michael Pascoe, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, hits on a little-reported theme gleaned from remarks by BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser this week in Sydney.

Miner Rio Tinto has announced plans to double its mine trainee and apprenticeship programs to meet future demands in Australia, reports Australian Mining.

“Where the industry previously lacked investment opportunities and choice, it now has more projects than cash flows. All of us in the industry are having to make choices.”

General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced it is pursuing acquisitions of two underground mining equipment manufacturers in support of the global expansion of its mining business.

A group of bearded women belonging to the feminist group La Barbe, crashed last night's Melbourne Mining Club meeting to congratulate the mining industry for its exclusion of women and its lobbying against the carbon tax.

AREVA and Mitsubishi Corporation, through their respective subsidiaries Afmeco Mining and Exploration Pty Ltd (AFMEX) and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd (MDP), have decided to work together in a uranium exploration program in Australia.