Western Plant Hire and Aboriginal-owned Nyiyaparla Engineering Mine & Maintenance Services have signed a joint venture agreement to provide plant hire and mining services in the Pilbara.
Avalon Minerals has announced plans to raise up to $28 million, fully funding the company to complete a bankable feasibility study at its flagship Viscaria copper-iron development in northern Swede
Mining companies should be focusing on improving productivity rather than just digging up bigger volumes of minerals, according to a report by consultants PwC.
Gold careened into bear-market territory on Friday, slipping below $US1,500 an ounce at one point, further succumbing to investors' push for higher yields.
The increased likelihood of the Browse gas project being developed as a ‘floater’ takes to nine the number of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) plants under construction or being considered for
Mexico-focused exploration firm Azure Minerals has secured $2.35 million from investors to finance drilling activities at its Cascada copper-gold-silver project .
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest says Australia will be left behind if efforts aren't made to make Sydney a strategic trading centre for Chinese currency.
UNITED States Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich says the US economy is well on its way to recovery, presenting a bullish perspective on the superpower’s outlook.
Woodside Petroleum has held out the hope of proceeding with an alternative gas project in the Kimberley after spiralling costs forced it to terminate plans for a gas processing plant at James Price
Alkane Resources says its Dubbo zirconia project is financially and technically robust, after completing a definitive feasibility study that put a $996 million price tag on the development.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has shown how you do philanthropy at the big end of town: put a million bucks on the table and challenge everyone in the room to match it.
Australia is lagging the world's best economies when it comes to productivity and needs a new plan to stop it falling further behind, BHP Billiton's chairman says.
Engineering and construction contractor Decmil Group will construct port and rail facilities for Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara, under a $71 million contract announced today.
Gold slumped Wednesday in the largest decline since November as details from the US Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting showed more discussion on throttling back on the central bank's easy-mone
China’s Hanlong Mining Investments has been successful in its bid to ditch three independent directors from the board of Perth-based gold, copper and molybdenum miner Moly Mines.
China has stopped evaluating new investments in Australia until some of its existing projects deliver better returns, according to Gindalbie Metals chairman George Jones.
Premier Colin Barnett has used the official opening of the $2.6 billion Karara iron ore project in the Mid West to announce a royalty rebate to support magnetite developments in Western Australia.
Shares in Australia's Alumina have leapt up after its joint venture partner Alcoa signalled that the aluminium industry had turned around, with a jump in profit.
The impact of disappointing commodity prices on the wider Perth economy has become clear this week with a key annual conference postponed due to low numbers.
Shares in Sundance Resources plunged after resuming trade today, after it officially canned its $1.3 billion takeover deal with China's Hanlong Mining overnight.
