News Articles for BHP

Our weekly appointments wrap includes David Edwards, Laura Benger, Simon Taylor, Nathan Charles, Mark Davies, Teck Lim, Dirk Adams, Josh Robertson, Ben Bradstreet, Chris Wyhoon, Nicole Batten and Debbie Gillam.

BHP and engineering firm Hatch have struck a deal to design an electric steelmaking furnace to cut carbon emissions.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has secured $125 million worth of contracts from Rio Tinto, BHP and Albemarle Lithium.

Jordan Murray and Simone Grogan discuss Silicon Valley Bank, AUKUS, AOG Energy, Crown Resorts and BHP.

BHP WA iron ore asset president Brandon Craig remained tight-lipped on costs but has outlined the company's plan to increase production in the state, at a Business News event.

Our board moves wrap includes Leslie Ingraham, John-Paul Santamaria, and Winton Willesee.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has revealed a drop in the number of women in management roles, while BHP and Western Power announce diversity achievements.

Perth-based industrial piping disruptor Polyline Pipe Systems believes its innovative method of producing “HDPE” poly pipes on site can help resources companies ease the current scourge of runaway prices bedevilling their sector. Polyline says its MPX630 mobile pipe extruder can reduce the conventional process to just three steps: on-site manufacture, a single weld at the end of a continuous pipe length and trench or surface installation as required.

Sky-high fuel and inflationary costs took a $US2.63 billion chunk out of Rio Tinto's underlying earnings for 2022 against a backdrop of weaker commodity prices.

Madeleine King has acknowledged efforts by the US government to support green energy could threaten investment in Australia's own nascent hydrogen industry.

Monadelphous has expanded its recruitment efforts overseas as the company continues to grapple with its “biggest challenge” of industry-wide staff shortages.

Softer iron ore prices combined with a 70 per cent spike in diesel costs crunched BHP's underlying profit by 32 per cent during the first six months of FY23.

BHP Minerals has lost an appeal over a Supreme Court ruling relating to boundaries covered by mining leases for iron ore tenements in the Pilbara.

Mining royalties paid to all Aboriginal groups in WA are less than half the amount paid to four wealthy families, new research has found.

BHP has confirmed a 51-year-old man was killed at the miner's iron ore operations in Port Hedland after being hit by a locomotive.

BHP's $9.6 billion planned acquisition of Oz Minerals is one step closer after it received clearance from Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defence.

Australian miner OZ Minerals has produced a record amount of copper in the December quarter to meet its 2022 guidance but is bracing for higher electricity costs.

Exporters will not be assessed on their indirect carbon emissions under WA's proposed net zero by 2050 legislation.

Technology is helping to empower Indigenous communities.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Nicky Long, Rebecca Adam, Matthew Beattie, Timothy Murray, Navin Gupta, Chris Robertson, Grace Mugabe, Hayden White, Jennifer Lawrence and Craig Gouws.

BHP has outlined plans to increase the automation of its iron ore operations after reporting a small lift in production to record levels and a dip in shipments.

The leader of Australia's largest mining company has called on fellow miners to take more risks on using innovative technologies for the clean energy transition.

Woodside Energy and BHP have donated $2.75 million towards the Kimberley floods relief effort.

St George Mining has welcomed Chinese lithium-ion battery maker Sunwoda Electronic onto its share registry via a $2m placement as it eagerly awaits results from a maiden drill campaign where visibl

Iron ore could be exported from Onslow in WA's Pilbara region under a new plan hatched between CZR Resources, Strike Resources and CSL Australia.

Whether it is gold, wool, timber, apples, salt, education, beef or even sea cucumbers, Australia has long punched above its weight in the trade stakes, even centuries before it was named Australia.

Inflation and sluggish wage growth has barely affected pay for many of WA's top executives.

Ad Astra Corporate Advisory and McGrath Nicol were paid more than $1million over just six months to advise on the failed sale of the WA TAB.

Underground miners working at BHP's Nickel West operation when a 3.5 magnitude seismic event hit WA's Goldfields on Wednesday are safe and accounted for, the company says.

Senior editor Mark Pownall talks about Shane Crockett's latest business venture and the former state tourism marketing chief has faced tackling overseas markets.

With a positive mining study Coda Minerals has unveiled a viable pathway to steady-state production of 2.5 million tonnes per annum at the company's Elizabeth Creek copper project in South Australia. The mining assessment forms part of a broader scoping study and is centred around underground mining of the project's cornerstone Emmie Bluff copper-cobalt deposit whilst also proposing open pit extraction at satellite deposits to rapidly achieve nameplate production.

Behemoths of Western Australia's resources sector will tip $750 million into a new community investment initiative to bankroll a cohort of legacy projects in the state.

Matt Mckenzie and Jordan Murray discuss WA's high-growth industries and assess key takeaways from the latest crypto collapse.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss ABN, commercial builders, Perth City Deal, ACCIONA, Alcoa, BHP, OZ Minerals, startup funding, Betts Group and Wilson Parking.

BHP is poised to substantially increase its exposure to copper and nickel after the board of takeover target OZ Minerals backed an increased offer.

OZ Minerals has placed its shares in a trading halt as it evaluates a “potential change of control transaction”.

Senior editor Mark Beyer discusses this year's changes to Data & Insights' accountants list and highlights some of the biggest issues affecting the sector.

BHP leaders have braced shareholders for a ‘complex' short-term horizon and issued an apology to those who have experienced damaging behaviour at its work sites, during an AGM in Perth today.

Monadelphous has been engaged to deliver construction services at Fortescue Metals Group's new magnetite project as part of a suite of new contracts and extensions worth $150 million.

St George Mining has moved quickly to top up its landholding at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora following the discovery of lithium mineralisation during its maiden drill program adding an exploration licence to its portfolio and lodging an application for a prospecting licence. Both tenements are neighbouring St George's Jailbreak prospect where the company currently has an aggressive drilling program underway.