Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has started new litigation against her children's trust fund to prevent it from receiving millions of dollars in royalties from a Rio Tinto joint venture.
Before we all get too excited about an emerging commodities boom Mark 2 - be aware that the smart money is already calling it over.
TD Bank's Bart Melek is optimistic that demand for iron ore in China will lift through 2017.
Apollo and Xcoal are poised to buy Anglo American's Australian metallurgical coal assets.
Copper prices fell after China's September trade data showed a sharp decline in imports.
Citi and UBS downgraded the big miners, but analysts still see reasons to hold onto the stocks.
The start of work on a $400 million lithium plant in Perth was proof that WA's economy was moving on from the mining boom, says WA Premier Colin Barnett.
Former treasurer Wayne Swan is doubling down down on his allegations that BHP Billiton has been evading taxes for more than a decade and misleading the government about it, repeating his comments in the public sphere after first using parliamentary privilege to go after the mining giant.
Clive Palmer's nephew is still overseas and is yet to be served with a summons to face court over the collapse of Queensland Nickel.
The mining union fears a new wave of black lung cases after the first diagnosis in a coal miner who worked exclusively above ground.
Shares in Alcoa tumbled 11 per cent as the metals company sees near-term challenges.
Aluminium prices hit two-month highs before retreating on renewed bets of rising Chinese output.
Shares in takeover target UGL continued to trade above the offer price of $3.15 put on the table Monday by the Spanish-controlled CIMIC.
The World Bank's finance arm will quit Rio Tint's $US20 billion Simandou iron ore project in Guinea.
CIMIC's $524 million bid for control of troubled heavy engineer UGL has been blunted by sharemarket investors, who overbid the $3.15-a-share offer price as clarity on troubled Ichthys bid awaited
Clive Palmer may have exited federal politics but he's still causing trouble for government ministers, threatening legal action over comments they made about his running of Queensland Nickel.
Barrick Gold's stake in the Kalgoorlie Super Pit mine has drawn interest from Kinross Gold Corp. and Zijin Mining Group Co. in a sale that could fetch as much as $US1 billion.
Clive Palmer plans to represent himself in a court bid to have liquidators removed from his collapsed refinery operator Queensland Nickel.
Whitsunday residents are bound for court in a bid to show the Queensland government failed the environment when it approved a port expansion for Adani's new mega-coal mine.
Australian gold miners need to extend their mine lives if they want to attract big foreign investors, according to Evolution Mining boss Jake Klein
An African-American employee at BHP's Pinto Mining Group was greeted with Ku Klux Klan symbols and nooses while working at the facility, it is alleged.
A detailed report into South Australia's prolonged blackout could take six months. Both sides of the renewables debate staked their claim following a preliminary report pointing to a "cascading series of events" due to extreme weather in South Australia.
Hard on the heels of OPEC's move to limit oil production, BHP Billiton has underscored its upbeat view on the outlook for oil and gas, as it argues the market is set to move back into balance in 2017, with demand set to exceed global supply.
A legal challenge against a $900 million mining project on Queensland's Darling Downs is finally winding up in the Land Court seven months later.
Australia's biggest iron ore producers shipped less than expected in the past three months, according to Macquarie.
Gold fell below $US1300 an ounce for the first time since June as a US interest rate hike nears.
The largest iron ore producers will need to exert tight control over supplies to keep steady prices.
Saudi Arabia blinked to stop the bleeding so now investors have to weigh the impacts
Board recommends shareholders accept the offer.
Australian steel and iron ore producer Arrium Ltd. may face costs of as much as A$40 million ($30.6 million) following storms that caused blackouts and forced BHP Billiton Ltd. to halt its Olympic Dam copper operation.
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