Mining

Engineeering and construction business Forge Group has been awarded a $100 million contract to expand a Pilbara iron ore mine owned by mining giant Rio Tinto.

Noble Mineral Resources has been placed into voluntary administration a day after announcing it was looking to restructure its Ghanaian subsidiaries' debt to secure additional funding, after it fai

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has lost its final bid to claw back a stake in the large Rhodes Ridge iron ore project in the Pilbara.

Ramelius Resources is forging ahead with exploration and development at its newly-acquired Vivien gold deposit near Leinster, launching a $16.3 million capital raising to fund the activities.

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The dispute over access to Fortescue Metals Group's Pilbara rail line appears destined for arbitration after Economic Regulation Authority chairman Lyndon Rowe said there was little his agency coul

Metals of Africa has announced plans to raise nearly $2.5 million to fund exploration activities and first drilling at the Rulio prospect at its Rio Mazoe base metals project in Mozambique.

Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart is seeking to have a bitter dispute surrounding a family trust fund referred to arbitration.

Australia's biggest airlines face pricing pressure as they battle for fly-in, fly-out contracts in the wake of a recent downturn in the mining sector.

Arafura Resources has inked an agreement with a China-based rare earths producer with an aim to jointly develop the Nolans rare earths project in the Northern Territory.

Corazon Mining has raised $3 million through a share placement, to fund exploration and drilling operations at its Top Up Rise project in Western Australia, as well as its Canadian gold and nickel

Oil prices have lost support after hitting 28-month highs over fears of fallout from a possible US military attack on Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.

Altona Mining says it is considering the sale of its Roseby copper project in Queensland, after reporting its first full-year profit on the back of starting production at its Outokumpu gold operati

Electrical contracting firm GCo Electrical has won a $6.8 million contract at La Mancha Resources' Mungari gold project near Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

A pair of Mineral Resources subsidiaries have made progress on two fronts, one winning a processing plant contract worth an estimated $450 million at Rio Tinto's Nammuldi iron ore mine, while anoth

Fresh from its takeover of Wilkie Civil Engineering, Mineral Engineering Technical Services has bought out Queensland firm John Norden & Associates, announcing plans to integrate the firm under

The fall-out continues for Newcrest Mining after its horror year, with boss Greg Robinson's annual pay cut by 27 per cent to $2.73 million.

Engineering consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz has been bought out by global giant Jacobs Engineering in a deal worth around $1.3 billion.

Unless some of the smartest people in the financial world are misreading their tea leaves, Australia's new prime minister, Tony Abbott, has done more than win an election – he's won the keys to a new era of solid economic growth.

It came as a surprise to many this week that BHP Billiton proudly opened a new coal mine when the business has bled money in the last two years.

Perth-based oil and gas exploration firm Pura Vida Energy has lined up $7 million to progress works at its Nkembe block, off the coast of Gabon.

Eight Western Australia-based resources sector firms have been removed from the list of Australia's top 300 companies, providing further evidence that the slowdown in mining activity is hurting WA

Manganese miner Consolidated Minerals has boosted its coffers by around $111 million, after selling its 23 per cent stake in iron ore junior BC Iron.

Government-backed schemes to develop renewable power supplies are coming unstuck as the price of traditional energy sources falls.

When Forge Group announced this week it had won a $1.47 billion Roy Hill construction contract it was with new joint venture partner Duro Felguera, from Spain, rather than its former alliance partn

The man hired by Newcrest Mining to investigate its disclosure scandal has found no "smoking gun".

Rio Tinto's aspiration of producing 360 million tonnes of iron ore each year is achievable, despite concern about its Pilbara expansion, analysts say.

Iron ore exploration company Centaurus Metals says its priority is on developing its flagship Jambreiro iron ore project in Brazil after writing down the value of its non-core Brazilian assets by m

After a grim six months, Western Australia's gold mining sector is showing signs of flickering back to life.

International oil and gas giant Chevron has signed Chris Corrigan's Qube Logistics to beef up its port capacity to service the massive Gorgon project on Barrow Island.

Iron Ore Holdings has struck its fifth deal in the past 18 months, agreeing to sell its North Marillana tenements to private company Maiden Iron.

Perth-based silver, lead and zinc miner Perilya has received a takeover offer from its major Chinese shareholder, Zhongjin Lignan Mining.