Mineral Resources’ iron ore crown jewel is shining bright and left untouched by China’s rampaging central buying agency, but sinking lithium prices weighed on market sentiment.
Adrian Rauso
The former NAB boss used the Big Australian’s annual general meeting to ratchet up warnings that the country has a major problem.
Pilbara iron ore output could soon be cut as the Andrew Forrest-controlled miner remains locked in contract negotiations with China Mineral Resources Group.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
The iron ore giant sacked one of its top executives after a legal investigation substantiated allegations of sexual harassment and bullying.
BHP’s Pilbara iron ore machine fired on all cylinders but copper spluttered as key mines in Chile were constrained by a worker’s death, bad weather and lower-quality ore.
Hundreds of skilled Whyalla blast furnace workers will not be left high and dry with some 600 jobs on offer across a range of industries.
Farid Farid
Mining giant BHP will shed hundreds of roles across its flagship WA mines in a major push to keep its crown as the world’s cheapest iron ore producer.
The sky-high price of diesel could add more than $500 million to Rio Tinto’s full-year Pilbara mining costs, but the price pain has a silver lining for Rio and its WA iron ore peers.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
Iron ore giant Fortescue is suing three companies over an allegedly defective pipeline at the dramatically over-budget Iron Bridge magnetite project.
Matt Mckenzie
Fortescue’s ongoing contract negotiations with an increasingly powerful state-backed buyer of iron ore in China are cutting into the Andrew Forrest-controlled miner’s sales.
Three iron ore producers that collectively sustain about 1000 WA jobs are in financial distress but WA Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli is kicking the can down the road.
FIFO caterer Sodexo is again under pressure after scores of workers at Rio Tinto’s Pilbara mine camps fell ill amid a major salmonella outbreak.
Australia’s resources boom is about to end as official forecasts point to a sharp drop in export revenue over the coming years, driven largely by falling WA iron ore and gas earnings.
An iron ore miner in WA’s far north said the State’s Mines Minister agreed to a payment plan for royalties it owes.
BHP was the only Pilbara iron ore giant to have replenished the reserves it mined over the past decade, according to fresh analysis.
BHP boss Brandon Craig appealed to China’s steel industry bigwigs and political leaders to ‘protect’ an iron ore trade relationship that has created ‘shared success’.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is wading back into a long-running legal feud with Traditional Owners over a patch of Fortescue’s vast iron ore empire in the Pilbara.
Daniel Newell
Unions and BHP have officially reached a stalemate at the miner’s sole Pilbara iron ore port, with the national workplace umpire asked to pick a side.
The State’s key mining lobby group has estimated that extracting WA’s known deposits of minerals, metals and fuels would easily fetch $8 trillion.
Nearly 30 staff-owners have shared $20.9m in dividends after the broker and corporate adviser more than doubled net profit to a record $38.3m, as revenue leapt 84 per cent to $118.9m.
Sean Smith
China’s state-backed iron ore buyer has told some steel mills to hold off on purchases of Rio Tinto’s Pilbara Blend, as contract talks with the Australian miner reach a critical point.
Alfred Cang and Katharine Gemmell
The Federal Government faces a fresh diplomatic balancing act as the world’s largest steelmaker looks to grow its slice of WA’s iron ore pie.
One of the executives who helped to resolve a tense standoff with China Mineral Resources Group is leaving the miner.
Daniel Newell and Paul-Alain Hunt
Element Zero’s ambitious plans to turn Australian iron ore into iron using renewable electricity have been given a massive cash boost.
Rebecca Le May
