Major gas users are scrambling to secure supplies following a fire on a critical gas pipeline.
The iron ore giant’s months-long stock rally appears to be over as investors turn sour on the company’s earnings growth and high exposure to slumping metal prices.
Lower global prices for key commodities put a $2.3 billion dent in Rio Tinto’s earnings.
The health of China’s economy will be a key focus for investors when big miners BHP,Rio Tinto and Fortescue report their results this week.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has dragged a former contractor to court as it prepares to confront a damages claim levelled by the family of an employee who died at its iron ore mine near Paraburdoo.
The world’s two biggest miners are teaming up in a bid to develop Australia’s first electric-smelting furnace.
Network Aviation will cancel about 35 flights carrying workers to WA’s north on Thursday as pilots strike after 18 months of negotiation for improved pay and conditions.
King River Resources is hunting for high-grade gold in elephant country in the Top End,with a gaggle of lucrative-looking targets begging to see a drill bit.
China is Australia’s largest trading partner,accounting for nearly a third of international trade,and the industries most exposed to Beijing’s economic woes are resources and commodities.
A mine worker missing in WA’s vast Pilbara has been found dead in his crashed car about 90 kilometres from Karratha.
Four passengers and two air crew members died when the small plane went down near Fort Smith during a flight to the company’s Diavik Diamond Mine.