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Despite public perception of China being a major foreign investor, it is in fact the US, so AmCham is launching a study to provide data to media, governments and commentators.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, business-economics-and-finance, foreign-affairs, international-aid-and-trade, trade, mining-industry, perth-6000
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| UpdatedCommodity prices rallied hard for most of 2016 and are now exposed to a range of risks that could see markets tumble back in 2017.
Topics: mining-industry, iron-ore, coal, oil-and-gas, gold, australia, china, united-states
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| UpdatedAdani's complex corporate web spreads from its planned Galilee Basin coal mine in North Queensland, across Asia to a Caribbean tax haven.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, multinationals, tax, federal-government, australia, qld, mackay-4740, bowen-4805, singapore, cayman-islands
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| UpdatedThe era of mining on Stradbroke Island off Brisbane is about to come to an end, causing a massive change to the economy of a well-loved tourist destination.
Topics: mining-industry, regional, activism-and-lobbying, tourism, industry, business-economics-and-finance, local-government, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, dunwich-4183, qld, australia
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A proposed mine extension near Lithgow in central west NSW is given the green light, after more than a year of public hearings and an independent study.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, lithgow-2790
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Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, geology, adelaide-university-5005
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| UpdatedJack Maughan may have grown up with the glorious grain fields of the Eyre Peninsula, but it is geology and rocks, not wheat and barley, which captures his imagination.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, geology, adelaide-university-5005
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| UpdatedIndia releases a new power plan promoting a dramatic increase in renewable energy, raising doubts about the Indian-owned Adani Group's massive coal mine in Queensland.
Topics: coal, industry, business-economics-and-finance, environment, mining-industry, government-and-politics, alternative-energy, environmental-policy, environmental-management, australia
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Investigations are underway into an incident at a Hunter Valley coal mine that resulted in the death of a contractor.
Topics: mining-industry, accidents, singleton-2330, newcastle-2300
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The chairperson of Australian mining company Kingsgate says he will seek compensation from Thailand's military Government over its decision to shut down their gold mine.
Topics: mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, industry, takeovers, foreign-affairs, thailand, asia, australia
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Clive Palmer's former company Queensland Nickel is fined $50,000 for overflows of contaminated water from its tailings dam near Townsville two years ago.
Topics: environmental-impact, courts-and-trials, mining-industry, townsville-4810, qld, yabulu-4818
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian researcher hopes combining waste from two different industries can help with environmental management.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, queenstown-7467
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| UpdatedA court orders Queensland Nickel to hand over a stash of documents to liquidators investigating the collapse of the former Clive Palmer operation, but a lawyer argues the company's former chief financial officer Daren Wolfe is the only person who can access the files.
Topics: mining-industry, company-news, federal-government, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedNationals leader Brendon Grylls is under attack on two fronts as he fights the mining lobby's opposition to his planned new tax while campaigning to hold onto his seat of Pilbara.
Topics: mining-industry, tax, state-parliament, elections, wa, perth-6000
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Topics: mining-industry, law-crime-and-justice, accidents
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| UpdatedAlmost three years to the day since two men plummeted to their deaths at the Mount Lyell copper mine, the mining company is fined $225,000.
Topics: mining-industry, death, disasters-and-accidents, queenstown-7467
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| UpdatedTreasurer Curtis Pitt hands down a better-than-expected budget forecast, with this financial year's forecasted surplus up by nearly $1.2 billion.
Topics: government-and-politics, budget, mining-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, state-parliament, qld
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| UpdatedUp to 150 jobs will be made redundant, after Kirkland Lake Gold announces it will cease underground mining at Stawell, in western Victoria.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, stawell-3380, warrnambool-3280, ballarat-3350
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Australian researchers discover how to make a special kind of diamond that is only found in nature where meteorites have hit the earth and is harder than the regular variety used for jewellery.
Topics: science-and-technology, geology, mining-industry, australian-national-university-0200, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Topics: housing, housing-industry, banking, globalisation---economy, mining-industry, mining-rural, kambalda-6442
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| UpdatedNautilus Minerals says it's made progress in resolving funding issues and it's project in Papua New Guinea is now back on track.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe world's first project to mine the seabed for minerals is expected to begin operations in Papua New Guinea in early 2019, amid concerns about the affect on the environment.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, industry, business-economics-and-finance, copper, gold, oil-and-gas, oceans-and-reefs, papua-new-guinea, pacific