Mining

Gold prices are lower, ending a three-day winning streak, as global stock markets and the US dollar rose following some strong US economic data.

Oil prices have retreated after two days of gains as the International Energy Agency predicted that a recent surge in world crude demand was set to end.

Companies that have paid fringe benefit taxes as part of flying workers to remote locations may be able to recoup those costs, even retrospectively, following a landmark decision in the Federal Court.

Pilbara miner BC Iron is making the final repayment on a major loan 18 months early as it works to improve its balance sheet.

Uranium miner Toro Energy will pay off its $12 million debt with Macquarie Bank after striking a deal with one of its substantial shareholders.

Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have suffered credit rating downgrades but analysts say the move is unlikely to affect the company's ability to borrow.

Pacific Energy has won a contract to build, own and maintain a 14 megawatt power station at Saracen Mineral Holding’s Thunderbox gold project near Leinster for an undisclosed sum.

Gold prices rose for a third straight session, bolstered by a softer US dollar and worries over the Greek debt crisis.

Oil prices have risen rose solidly for a second day in a row after US data showed declines in crude and gasoline inventories.

Origin Energy will take $150 million in costs out of the business by June next year to defend its position as the nation's largest utility company.

Subiaco-based iron ore explorer Nemex Resources has announced plans to buy all the shares it doesn’t already own in Wavefront Biometric Technologies.

Gold prices rose as European stock markets fell and commodities picked up across the board.

Oil prices have surged as traders girded for a bullish US crude storage report and the government lowered its forecast for American production in the second half of 2015.

General Mining Corporation shares fell sharply today after the company announced revised terms for the acquisition of an interest in Galaxy Resources' Mt Cattlin tantalum project near Ravensthorpe.

Mining giant BHP Billiton’s spin-off, South32, has announced it will delay plans to restart operations at its Samancor Manganese joint venture in response to a slide in the price of alloy.

Kin Mining has announced a $3 million capital raising to fund a pre-feasibility study on its recently acquired Leonora gold project.

Gold miner Newcrest Mining had to shut its Lihir operations in Papua New Guinea for 36 hours over the weekend after a dispute with members of the local community.

Gold prices rose slightly after a three-day streak of declines as the US dollar and stock markets fell.

Oil prices have fallen as the market weighed last week's OPEC meeting and the prospects for a breakthrough in upcoming nuclear talks with Iran.

Macquarie Capital’s Kate Vidgen has been named as the inaugural chair of newly formed oil and gas company Quadrant Energy, which will have six directors representing its three owners – Macquarie, Brookfield Asset Management and Angela Bennett’s AMB Holdings.

A Perth researcher has criticised the federal government's hands-off response to a national inquiry into fly-in, fly-out practices, released two years after the House of Representatives standing committee tabled its report and almost four years after an inquiry into FIFO practices was commissioned.

The state government expects about half of local prospectors’ program of work applications will be fee-free from the start of July, after it substantially increased the size threshold.

A looming shortage of skilled technicians in the oil and gas industry is the latest opportunity local business Blue Tongue is planning to tackle.

It's been reported that seven maintenance workers at Alcoa's Kwinana Refinery in Perth have been exposed to asbestos, but the aluminium producer says the health risk is "extremely low".

Perth-based ferrotungsten miner Hazelwood Resources has kicked off a $12.8 million capital raising to repay debt and expand production at its ATC joint venture facility in Vietnam.

Former Fortescue Metals Group chief financial officer and director Chris Catlow has joined Subiaco-based Triton Minerals as its new chairman, with Alan Jenks stepping down from the head of the board to take on a director role today.

Developing markets in Mozambique, Russia and Papua New Guinea are the new targets for local marine services player Bhagwan Marine.

Global Construction Services has won an extension to its contract to provide all of the onshore and offshore scaffolding works for Woodside Petroleum’s North West Shelf project.

Sirius Resources, which is in the middle of a takeover by Independence Group, has formally awarded GR Engineering Services a $114 million engineering, procurement and construction contract at its Nova nickel mine in the Fraser Range.

Gold prices are lower following some robust US economic data and shrugging off earlier weakness in the greenback.

Oil prices have fallen sharply for a second day ahead of OPEC's summit to review its production levels amid an oversupplied market.

Global miner Glencore has taken a swipe at Australia's mining giants, saying their mass iron ore and coal expansions had "cannibalised" revenue and hurt the economy.