Australian mining industry

CEO Tania Constable said the policy fails to consider the importance of the worker’s age, experience, expertise, and qualification.

In an effort to position New South Wales as a significant player in high-tech minerals sector, the state government plans to encourage exploration.

Competiton from Asia means the price for nickel has dropped from $US30,000 a tonne to $US16,000 a tonne, making BHP’s nickel operations unprofitable.

‘No-win-no-fee’ litigation backers are gambling millions on challenges to big projects across Australia in the hope of taking a major share of any payout.

The process to map the entire continent will take 35 years.

Sharpe trumpeted the Labor government’s innovation of the ban saying, ‘No other state or territory has acted so comprehensively.’

The body of a 37-year-old man who died after the rockfall, and named in multiple media reports as Kurt Hourigan of Bruthen, was recovered about 6am on Thursday.

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest says Australia can’t compete when Beijing is prepared to ‘destroy entire ecosystems.’

The CEO and chair of the Anindilyakwa Land Council are co-directors of a company which received half of the royalties meant to alleviate poverty in the area.

Alcoa, Anglo American, BHP, Glencore, and Rio Tinto have all vowed to tighten environmental restrictions around their mining activities.

The Queensland Resources Council has called on the government to have policies to attract investment to support the state’s role in the net-zero transition.