Mining

Atlas Iron has bought Gondwana Resources' 90 per cent stake in the Corunna Downs project in the north Pilbara for $2.1 million in cash.

Australia's middle-ranked miners are sitting on a $7.6 billion cash mountain after tapping shareholders for funds, leaving them better placed to weather the volatile share market.

Fund manager Perpetual has allocated a fifth of its resources portfolio to offshore investments as it seeks attractively priced stocks amid global volatility and uncertainty.

The federal government's move to lift a ban on uranium sales to India has boosted uranium stocks, but share prices are still well below the levels before the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Premier Colin Barnett says China will play hardball over joining the Oakajee port and rail project but he is optimistic it will go ahead.

Premier Colin Barnett has welcomed a move by federal Labor to lift its ban on uranium sales to India.

Resources giant BHP Billiton says it will spend billions of dollars ramping up shale gas production in the United States this decade.

Elders has posted a $395.4 million annual loss but said its underlying performance had improved and forecast an improved performance for the current fiscal year.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is pleased with an APEC leaders' agreement to slash the region's energy intensity and cut tariffs on environmental products.

Uranium miner Paladin Energy has posted a much bigger net loss for the September quarter than a year earlier after booking an impairment charge for its Kayelekera mine in Malawi.

Industry veteran Ron Manners has become the latest Western Australian mining identity inducted into the Mining Hall of Fame at the weekend.

Rail operator QR National has signed a deal with Wesfarmers to haul up to 1.5 million tonnes of coal each year from its Curragh mine in Queensland to port.

Leighton Holdings has reaffirmed it will return to profitability this financial year with a profit of a much as $650 million as it tenders for $27 billion worth of work.

NRW Holdings has been awarded a $99 million contract for the construction of access roads for Chevron’s Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.

Carbon forest sink company Carbon Conscious will plant about 10 million native Mallee eucalypt trees the Wheatbelt next year, after Origin Energy exercised about $30 million worth of planting optio

Striking phosphate miners on Western Australia's remote Christmas Island are threatening to turn the tables on their employer by closing the mine and buying it back.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has urged his Asia-Pacific counterparts to waste no time implementing economic reforms necessary to prevent the sort of turbulence that has gripped Europe.

The Association of Mining and Exploration companies has welcomed the Senate’s decision to send the minerals resource rent tax legislation to a Senate Economics Committee, on the same day it launche

Gindalbie Metals' timeline for its flagship Karara iron ore project in Western Australia has slipped but the $2.57 billion development cost remains the same.

Mutiny Gold says it has signed an $11 million project loan and hedging facility to fund the acquisition of the final 30 per cent stake in the Gullewa tenements and a feasibility study for its Defle

The benefits of the mining boom have peaked and the federal government must abandon its commitment to a budget surplus by 2012/13, a new study says.

Fortescue Metals Group says the iron ore price has bottomed out for the moment and demand from Chinese steel mills remains high.

An Aboriginal corporation has been denied the opportunity to speak at Fortescue Metals Group's annual general meeting.

Queensland-based engineering firm Intelara has opened a Perth office, in response to rising demand for its services in Western Australia.

Andrew Forrest-chaired Poseidon Nickel has asked the state government to allow the explorer to re-start mining at the Mount Windarra project in Western Australia.

Monthly trade figures usually prompt talk of coal, iron ore and the like, but this focus on minerals is a distraction from another important element of the trade data.

Seven Group says the current uncertainty in global markets may prompt the media and earthmoving equipment company to consider further impairment charges on its investments.

The leaders of Australia's energy and electricity companies have welcomed the new carbon pricing scheme, saying it might reduce rather than increase their costs.

Environmentally sustainable design consultancy Cundall has opened a Perth office, appointing Perth-based expert Mark Pitman to head up the operation.

Recent trade figures reflect the continuing strength bolstered by the mining sector, economists say.

The federal government is talking up its efforts to achieve uniform rules on coal seam gas mining to protect the environment.

Privately-owned engineering and contracting company Calibre Global has announced its fifth acquisiton in the past two years, with the purchase of Melbourne-based infrastructure servi