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Shareholder returns were not always reflected in the scale and growth of public-listed executive pay packets last financial year.

Brandon Craig has been promoted to the role of BHP's president Americas, but the mining giant is yet to decide who will lead its most valuable asset: its WA iron ore business.

BHP has laid out plans to bring together the copper assets it bought from OZ Minerals with its existing mines to boost Australia's share of the global market.

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

BHP's petroleum boss Geraldine Slattery will lead the company's Australian operations, replacing Edgar Basto who will become the company's first chief operating officer.

The largest coal mine in New South Wales will close by the turn of the decade after BHP was unable to strike a viable deal for the asset.

A likely change of power in Canberra this year will have little bearing on the makeup of WA's political and business leaders. Click through to see our updated ranking of WA's 50 Most Influential.

Mining giant BHP has sold its stake in a metallurgical coal joint venture in Queensland for more than $1.6 billion.

The Australian Workers' Union has flagged a possible legal challenge to BHP's decision to lock out workers who refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19.

BHP and Mineral Resources have become the latest big employers to make COVID vaccinations a condition of entry at all of their Australian workplaces, joining mining giant Rio Tinto.

Mining giant BHP is considering mandating COVID-19 vaccination for anyone entering its worksites and offices.

BHP has appointed a mining executive who has spent most of her career at Rio Tinto as the new asset president for its Nickel West business.

WA's role in the electric vehicle supply chain has received a big boost, with BHP Nickel West announcing a deal with carmaker Tesla.

BHP has produced first ore at its $4.7 billion South Flank mine, which features autonomous trucking, 40 per cent female employment and 15 per cent indigenous employment.

Iron ore majors BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale have launched a global competition for tech innovators, aimed at developing new concepts to electrify the mining industry's substantial haul truck fleet.

Our updated listing of the 50 most influential Western Australians in business and politics highlights four individuals who stand apart from the rest.

BHP and traditional owners are investigating a rockfall at a heritage site near Mining Area C, although the cause is unclear.

Mining giant BHP has conceded the entire industry needs to put significant work into rebuilding trust with Aboriginal land owners.

Rio Tinto has bowed to shareholder pressure over the destruction of Juukan Gorge, announcing this morning that chief executive J-S Jacques and two other senior executives would lose their jobs.

Brandon Craig will take charge of BHP's Western Australian iron ore operations, after working at the company for more than 20 years.

Engineering consultancy AIE is one of 273 Western Australian small business suppliers to have benefitted from BHP's local buying program since 2017, with the mining giant spending $38 million in WA through the initiative.

BHP has selected former iron ore boss Edgar Basto to lead its Australian mining operations, after he served as acting minerals president since the appointment of chief executive Mike Henry last year.

Telethon Kids Institute has received $2.66 million from BHP to lead a trial testing the effectiveness of multiple sclerosis drug interferon in reducing the infectiousness of COVID-19 patients.

Rio Tinto's Ivan Vella has been elected Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia's new president, replacing Edgar Basto.

Fortescue Metals Group said today it expected to meet its annual shipments guidance, as the mining sector started adapting to travel restrictions that will crimp fly-in, fly-out operations.

BHP will hire 1,500 temporary workers across the country on six month contracts, with at least 400 to be at Western Australian iron ore operations, Business News understands, while Woodside has pledged to cut payment times for contractors.

This year's Most Influential feature has been narrowed down to the 50 people in WA making the biggest impact in business and politics.

Perth Glory's men's and women's sides will have a distinctive new look for the 2019-20 A-League and W-League seasons, with Australia's biggest miner, BHP, taking over from QBE as the club's principal sponsor.

The official opening of BHP's upgraded Mulla Mulla village in the Pilbara today adds a key component to the company's strategy for attracting workers to its iron ore projects.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Michelle Andrews, Rikki Kersten, Caroline Lindsey, Julia Sutherland, Edgar Basto, Ivan Vella, Michael Erickson and Helen Shield.

BHP Group executive Edgar Basto has been elected president of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA, which has also unveiled new branding.

A BHP Group rail maintenance crew applied brakes to the wrong locomotive when they tried to help the driver of a runaway iron ore train, which ended up being deliberately derailed in the Pilbara region.

BHP Billiton has disclosed that the driver of last week's runaway iron ore train failed to engage the emergency air brake after getting out to check on a problem with another part of the braking system.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA has appointed Edgar Basto as its acting president following the departure of Woodside executive and CME president Jeroen Buren.

Iron ore prices will fall more than 10 per cent to be about $US60 per tonne next year, partly driven by increased scrap metal availability, according to Citigroup Asia commodities strategist Tracy Liao.

Cost pressures are starting to return to the mining sector, according to BHP Billiton WA Iron Ore boss Edgar Basto, as the company continues preliminary work with potential contractors ahead of a decision on the South Flank development in the next few months.

OPINION: Despite a spike in iron ore prices, it will be the bigger, low-cost producers that rule the roost in the near to medium term.

Investment plans for BHP Billiton's South Flank project can proceed with greater certainty following the defeat of the Nationals WA's proposed iron ore levy hike at the ballot box earlier this month, according to the company's asset president of WA iron ore, Edgar Basto.

Pilbara accommodation businesses run by one-time trucking boss Craig Mitchell and the Collinson family are set to be the winners from BHP Billiton's surprise decision to close Kurra Village in Newman, which at its peak houses up to 1,600 fly-in, fly-out workers

Chevron is the latest major resources player in the state to announce a change in leadership, after selecting a successor to current managing director (Australia) Roy Krzywosinski, who will hand over the reins in June.