Fortescue's focus on debt to crimp dividends near term
Increased shareholder returns at Fortescue Metals Group are looking less likely in the near term.
BHP's Escondida miners to end strike
The strike at Escondida will end after workers decided to invoke a provision that allows them to extend their old contract.
Iron ore price begins slow descent back to 'normal'
The iron ore price is has started to slide. Is this the end of 2017's high prices?
Vic scorns push to reopen Hazelwood
The Victoria government has poured scorn on a last minute push to reprieve the Hazelwood brown coal power station to reduce the likelihood of blackouts next summer
Peabody bullish on Australian coal despite loss
Bankrupt miner Peabody Energy managed to lose money during the coal price boom of 2016 but remains bullish on Australia's ability to supply the world with coal.
Citi in $175m Evolution Mining block trade
Citi's equities desk was in the market with a $175 million block trade in gold producer Evolution Mining on Thursday afternoon.
This is 'as good as it gets' for miners
It's not time to cut and run, but strategists are becoming more cautious about the tired looking bull market in mining stocks.
Iron ore takes a battering
After multiple rounds of warnings that this year's rally may be overdone, the steel-making raw material is in retreat.
Walsh joins Mitsui board in slap-in-face to Rio
Sam Walsh has been appointed a director of one of Japan's largest trading houses, Mitsui & Co.
UAE miner enters Australian iron ore
Strong iron ore prices are luring opportunistic miners back into the market, after a UAE company took the Roper River mine off liquidators h...
