Mining

Incitec Pivot has appointed Paul Brasher as chairman of the fertiliser and explosives maker.Mr Brasher, a former chairman of accounting firm PwC, replaces John Watson in the top role.

Gold miner Reed Resources has announced further changes to its board, with executive chairman David Reed stepping back into a non-executive role and Ian Junk and Peter Collins retiring from the boa

St Barbara and Allied Gold have unveiled a merger plan aimed at creating an international gold producer and explorer with a market capitalisation of more than $1 billion.

A federal-state government rescue package of more than $40 million will keep Alcoa's Victorian smelter open for at least another two years and most of its workforce in a job.

One day before it was due to be released, Environment Minister Bill Marmion has announced that he is seeking legal advice on the Environmental Protection Authority’s report into the proposed gas hu

Caltex Australia, which is pondering closing its refining operations, expects its first half profit to rise by as much as 81 per cent per cent due to higher refinery production.

Alkane Resources says it's on track to bring one of the world's largest undeveloped zirconium resources into production by 2015.

Chinese-owned Yancoal Australia has joined the local share market, the largest public listing in 18 months.

Santos shares have fallen after the cost of its Gladstone liquefied natural gas (GLNG) project rose by 15 per cent.

Brookfield Multiplex’s engineering and infrastructure division has won a $190 million contract to build an accommodation village at Hancock Prospecting’s Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

South Boulder Mines has announced a plan to raise $9.5 million from North American investors to fund the development of its Colluli potash project in Eritrea.

Queensland-focused minerals explorer Ivanhoe Australia will cut 50 jobs as its new owner Rio Tinto seeks to cut costs in the company.

Rialto Energy has appointed global engineering, fabrication and construction specialist Petrofac to perform front end engineering and design for its Gazelle oil and gas field off the coast of Cote

Incremental Oil and Gas has completed a $4.6 million capital raising to explore and develop its Florence oilfield in Colorado.

Wet weather has contributed to a reduction in Australian gold production at the start of 2012, a report says.

The biggest office relocation in Western Australia's history is under way, with about 3,000 BHP Billiton workers moving into Perth's newest building.

The families of some of the Sundance Resources directors who were killed in a plane crash en route to the company's West African iron ore project have launched legal proceedings against the firm.

Woodside Petroleum has let lapse a supply agreement for its Browse project worth up to $45 billion.

Fortescue Metals Group says it can beat the federal government's mining tax in a legal challenge that will thrash out the century-old states versus Commonwealth rights debate.

BHP Billiton has committed $US845 million to opening a new mine at its Illawarra Coal business in NSW.

Engineering firm Downer EDI has won a $73 million contract to build locomotives for iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group.

Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto will not be affected by new laws in the United Kingdom requiring firms to list their greenhouse gas emissions because they say they already do so.

Australians are moving to the nation's mining states and paying handsomely to live there.

Pacific Energy has announced it has won a deal to build a power station at the Tropicana gold project, its largest project win for several years.

Greens MLA Giz Watson has applauded a move by the state's Mining Warden's Court to reject three bauxite exploration licenses in the tourist-haven southwest region.

Suitor Aurora Oil & Gas has appointed three representatives to takeover target Eureka Energy's board after increasing its stake to 68.4 per cent.

A controversial new processing plant in Malaysia run by rare earths miner Lynas has received the support of a Malaysian parliamentary committee.

An Indian-based mining giant has been accused of short-cutting the visa approval process by using foreign workers for a $10 billion coal mine in central Queensland.

A mining warden has recommended rejection of a proposal to explore for bauxite south of Bridgetown, in the state's South West region.

Engineering firm Downer EDI has won a $71.7 million contract to install power lines and substations at BHP Billiton's Jimblebar iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

Global energy giant Chevron Corporation is to sell 8 per cent of its interest in the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas processing facility and ten per cent of the project's gas fields to Japan's Tok

Integra Mining says production will take a hit at its Randalls gold operation near Kalgoorlie, after mechanical issues required the plant to be shut down for four days.