Iron ore continues to seesaw on the $US100 per tonne benchmark and the latest drop has pushed BHP’s value towards a multi-year low.
Adrian Rauso
Plans for a $3.2 billion iron ore operation in WA’s mining heartland have gone off the boil as Fortescue switches its focus to a less developed project that needs more railway.
Australia’s big four banks are predicting a gloomier year for the country’s most important commodity in 2025.
BHP Group, the world’s biggest miner, expects increasing uncertainty in the near term as US President-elect Donald Trump prepares to implement a slew of tariffs and other trade measures.
Thomas Biesheuvel and Francine Lacqua
Offsetting the carbon emissions of the nation while creating nearly 20,000 jobs and $74 billion in economic value. That’s the reward on offer if WA can successfully launch a large scale green iron industry.
Rebecca Tomkinson
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released its finding into the incident, saying there was ‘no brake application or reduction in throttle’ before impact.
Caleb Runciman
Kwinana has won the battle to become the site of a ‘revolutionary’ low-emissions iron smelting pilot plant, with the State Government willing to cough up mega bucks to beat out the rest of the nation..
Jessica Page
Heavy rain in the Pilbara forced BHP to evacuate personnel and pause production at a major mining hub at the weekend.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
Personnel at Rio Tinto’s Paraburdoo iron ore operations were briefly evacuated from site following a gas leak yesterday.
Simone Grogan
A ‘green iron’ industry has been argued as WA’s answer to waning iron ore quality and the looming threat of Rio Tinto’s Simandou giant.
The Prime Minister has refused to rule out new mining taxes or royalties as industry leaders put pressure on politicians to provide the funding to turn green iron into a viable climate change solution.
Analysts at Macquarie reckon Rio Tinto’s gargantuan new iron ore mine in Guinea could tip iron ore supplies into a surplus and push WA’s lifeblood commodity into double digit prices
The call for Rio Tinto to abandon its primary London listing doesn’t make economic sense, chief executive Jakob Stausholm says, after an activist shareholder urged the miner to relocate to Australia.
Paul-Alain Hunt and Adrian Rauso
An energy project combining cyclone-busting solar panels and a big battery has been built in the Pilbara region to decarbonise iron ore port operations.
Marion Rae
Economic modelling suggests a sovereign green iron industry could make more than $100 billion a year and create thousands of jobs for former steel workers.
Unions are holding talks with Rio Tinto following a wave of redundancies across three WA iron ore mines, as more details about the job losses come to light.
UPDATED: Rio Tinto has sacked operations staff working at three of its Pilbara iron ore mines and shrunk the scale of two other proposed developments.
Adrian Rauso and Simone Grogan
A fourth truck has crashed within four months at Mineral Resources’ private Onslow haul road network in the West Pilbara, which is a key piece of the company’s new $3 billion flagship mining operation.
Mineral Resources’ ties to businesses run by Chris Ellison’s daughter and brother could soon be cut, according to the company’s outgoing chair James McClements.
There were plenty of rocks thrown at Chris Ellison during a tense meeting, but also no shortage of shareholders who rushed to the besieged managing director’s defence.
Daniel Newell
The group that represents Australia’s mum and dad shareholders plans to grill the chair of Mineral Resources over his lack of action in addressing the dodgy dealings of boss Chris Ellison.
Rio’s chief executive has apologised after a new workplace behaviour report found bullying had got worse and counts of sexual assault had increased, despite best efforts to overhaul the miner’s culture.
Simone Grogan and Caitlyn Rintoul
Rio’s efforts to fix culture issues in the past two years have left some men feeling ‘undervalued or overlooked’ against their women peers, and of the belief that there is reverse discrimination at play.
Mineral Resources’ corporate governance scandal has left a trail of burning questions, setting the stage for the most anticipated annual general meeting in recent memory.
Adrian Rauso and Neale Prior
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