3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (355+ words) Six companies - five of them headquartered in China or Hong Kong - have been forced to sell off their holdings in an Australian rare earths miner amid fears of foreign interference. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has given the overseas-owned businesses 14 days to…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (625+ words) An Aboriginal community awarded $150 million in compensation in a battle with a mining giant says it is a win for First Nations people. But the group says it's disappointed with the size of the payout after Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (497+ words) Soaring metals prices have helped the world's biggest explosives maker post record first half earnings, but the result has been dampened by a supplier outage. Melbourne-based Orica said supply concerns for gold and copper - which were trading at record-high prices…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (555+ words) Australia and its allies may have to embrace market intervention to combat decades of inaction that let China gain a stranglehold on critical raw materials, an outgoing mining boss says. Lynas Rare Earths chief executive Amanda Lacaze told the National…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (575+ words) Australia's share market is trading at its highest level since early March after the US and Iran struck a two-week ceasefire, easing soaring oil prices and boosting investor confidence. The S&P/ASX200 gained 233 points on Wednesday, up 2. 55 per cent, to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (465+ words) In a bid to shore up manufacturing jobs, another struggling metals smelter will receive a $2 billion bailout from the government in return for investing in renewable energy. Australia's second-largest aluminium smelter - Rio Tinto's Boyne smelter in the central Queensland town…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (309+ words) An Aboriginal corporation will be receive $450, 000 from a state forestry corporation as a penalty for illegal logging. The Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) was convicted on Friday for the 2020 illegal felling of six giant trees and three hollow bearing trees…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (381+ words) The Traditional Owners of a pastoral lease that's home to a massive mine have been awarded more than $54 million compensation for cultural and economic losses. The Gudanji, Yanyuwa and Yanyuwa-Marra peoples took their case to the Federal Court in 2020, claiming…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (218+ words) A contract worker has died following an incident at Rio Tinto's Sim Fer mine at "the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea. Rio Tinto, the world's largest producer of iron ore, said work had been "suspended at the Sim Fer…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (442+ words) One of Australia's biggest miners could reach its ambitious decarbonisation goals early, the company says, after revealing a pair of battery-powered locomotives powered by the world's largest land-mobile battery. Iron ore giant Fortescue estimates the electric train engines will help…...