Mining

Private Perth company Strategic Marine has announced it will establish a maintenance and servicing facility in Karratha.

Accounting firm BDO has released updated modelling on the impact of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) which it said confirms that smaller miners will pay a higher rate of tax than the country’s

UPDATE: Fortescue Metals Group has vehemently denied claims from a native title group that it is operating unlawfully with regards to Aboriginal heritage at one of its Pilbara mines.

Evolution Mining says one of its four Australian gold mines may beat its full year production forecast, but two could fall short.

Ramelius Resources says it will launch a $15 million share purchase plan after completing a $40 million placement to institutional investors.

Copper and gold explorer Sandfire Resources has signed a sales deal with a private Swiss commodity trading company for product from its DeGrussa project in Western Australia.

Environment Minister Bill Marmion says he will not be rushed into a decision on the Vasse Coal mining proposal after receiving the independent Appeal Committee’s report on the matter.

Rio Tinto chairman Jan Du Plessis says he can't see European leaders coming up with a sustainable solution to the region's financial problems.

Perth-based junior gold explorer Peel Mining says it has been awarded two exploration permits in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Skywest has announced a new charter contract with BHP Billiton, to service the mining giant’s Area C and Yandi mines in the Pilbara.

Santos has secured a six-year contract to supply gas from its Reindeer field off Western Australia to Minara Resources' Murrin Murrin nickel mine in the Goldfields.

Transfield Services has secured $130 million in work with the defence industry, including a five-year extension in Western Australia.

The world's biggest economies will agree to increase the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) resources to help tackle the European debt crisis, officials at the Group of 20 summit said Thursday.

On a day its chief executive was making headlines battling politicians over the minerals resources tax in Canberra, BC Iron achieved a milestone of its own.

Mines Minister Norman Moore should not be appointed as Western Australia's agent-general in London because he's no diplomat, state Labor says.

Lands Minister Brendon Grylls has launched a nation-wide expressions of interest program, seeking a development partner to deliver a bulky goods complex in Karratha.

Parliament has begun debating legislation for the minerals resource rent tax, amid calls from Andrew Forrest for the federal government to reveal the scale of deductions given to the big miners, an

Japanese firm Inpex is denying a news report it has made a final decision to go ahead with a giant gas plant in Darwin.

Car maker Holden says it has not made a final decision about the future of the Commodore, despite union claims that the next model could be the last created in Australia.

Rio Tinto has significantly boosted its plans for driverless trucks at its Western Australian mines, increasing its order from 10 trucks to 150.

A joint venture led by US-owned construction contractor Kiewit Australia, which is a new player in the local mining sector, has won a $247 million contract from Fortescue Metals Group for works on

BHP Billiton has approved the development of the $US4.2 billion ($A4 billion) Caval Ridge Mine coal project in the northern Bowen Basin in central Queensland.

Tension is mounting surrounding the federal government's minerals resource rent tax legislation, with key independent MPs demanding stricter rules for coal seam gas and the Greens insisting gold mi

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she wants developing nations to invest in clean energy, as she heads to the G20 leaders' summit on France's south coast.

Wesfarmers has raised $500 million through the issue of fixed-rate medium-term notes.

Renewable energy players Green Rock Energy and New World Energy have signed a binding joint venture agreement to explore and develop the two companies’ geothermal exploration permits in the Mid Wes

Western Australia-based power utility Pacific Energy has announced it will build, own and maintain a 9 megawatt power station at the Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara for Millennium Minerals.

The only way to meet a tripling in natural gas demand in eastern Australia is by allowing unconventional gas projects, such as coal seam gas (CSG), oil and gas producer Santos says.

Unions representing Qantas workers may challenge a ban on strike action but say they hope to settle their industrial dispute with the airline.

Rare earths supplier Lynas Corporation says slight delays mean a planned Malaysian plant will now come on line during the first half of 2012.

Qantas will recover market share and press ahead with plans to set up an international business in Asia despite incurring more that $100 million in lost earnings, the airline's boss says.