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Five years after the boom, battle rages over mining wages
Coal prices may be recovering, but there are no celebrations in WA mining town Collie, where workers are fighting plans to slash their wages almost in half.
Coal prices may be recovering, but there are no celebrations in WA mining town Collie, where workers are fighting plans to slash their wages almost in half.
Fears grow that prices have climbed too far, too fast in wake of US election and Chinese housing boom
Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has welcomed Donald Trump's election victory as "exciting" for America's economy and called for similar policies to those of the new president-elect to be implemented in Australia.
Prices have given up most of the gains inspired by Donald Trump's surprise win and a speculative frenzy in China.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has confirmed the company will slash more jobs across its iron ore division in Western Australia.
A Rio Tinto Group executive asked how big a bribe it would take to beat out a competitor for a hotly contested iron ore deposit in Guinea, the country's former mining minister says.
Copper clocked its biggest weekly fall in a month as the US dollar soared to a 14-year high.
Iron ore just capped the biggest weekly drop in six months.
BHP chair Jac Nasser says the world economy will face "complete trauma" if Donald Trump goes ahead with tariffs on Chinese products.
A top Rio Tinto executive sacked over a suspect multimillion-dollar payment connected to the mining giant's African operations says the company had "no grounds" to fire him and promises a legal fight.
Local action groups have criticised a "weak" legal structure in Queensland to protect communities from mining operations following the dismissal of a challenge against a coal mine near Maryborough.
BHP's boss has urged US President-elect Donald Trump to refrain from tearing up the Paris climate change agreement.
Oil markets are faced with the rising threat of an oil shortage emerging over the next few years, the IEA has warned.
Protesters dressed as rats have targeted the new chief of the Queensland Resources Council Ian Macfarlane outside its annual lunch on Wednesday.
Clive Palmer's companies are frustrating liquidators' efforts to obtain documents about the collapse of Queensland Nickel, the Federal Court has heard.
Former billionaire Nathan Tinkler has issued a passionate defence of coal in the Hunter Valley, describing himself as a "victim" of the thoroughbred horse breeding industry and lashing the "self interest" of its campaign against the expansion of the controversial Drayton South mine expansion.
The retail and mining conglomerate has started a process to sell its Curragh and Bengalla mines to cash in on the recent coal price rally, sources say.
The liquidators for Linc Energy have launched a legal challenge to the Queensland government's environmental protection order on its operation near Chinchilla, claiming liquidated companies should not need to comply.
Green groups are calling for more underground coal gasification projects to be stopped after the Queensland government charged five Linc Energy executives.
Rich countries must close all their coal-fired power plants by 2030 to have a chance of holding global warming to tolerable levels, a report from an environmental research group said.
Soaring prices for the metal have boosted Australia's three largest exporters. But the party is about to end, with prices tipped to plunge by 40 per cent next year.
EnergyAustralia has warned of a further round of electricity price rises if its Yallourn power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley were to close.
The steel maker has affirmed its December-half underlying profit before tax would be "at least" $510 million, up 50 per cent,
Two former Rio Tinto chief executives are included in the emails at the heart of investigations across three continents into payments the global miner made over access to a mining project in West Africa.
Co-operation to tackle the effects of coal and gas mining is not only possible: it is imperative. Yet, in our halls of power the loud voices of vested interests largely drown out the voices of those affected.
The Queensland government has granted the controversial Carmichael mine an 11th hour exemption to new water laws that could have seen the project subjected to further legal challenges.
Global miner Rio Tinto has suspended two senior executives following the discovery of large payments to a consultant who worked on the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea.
Spot metallurgical coal topped $US300 a tonne for the first time in five years.
After spending $2 billion on big new projects in Australia and the US, investors in fertilizer to explosives group Incitec Pivot may have to wait a little longer to benefit, with the focus for now on reducing debt. At the same time, the group is cool towards the uptick being seen in commodity prices,
The price of coking coal and coke, the raw materials used to make steel, surged amid tight supply.
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