Iron ore
Opinion
Opinion
Iron ore price paints over less than glossy news from Rio and BHP
Awash with dividends cleans away negative news from the big iron ore miners.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Latest
Analysis
Analysis
BHP's bulging cash pile has nowhere else to go but in shareholders' pockets
A final quarter production surge has set BHP up for a cash bonanza and has closed the Pilbara productivity gap between it and arch-rival Rio Tinto.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
Analysis
Iron ore mishaps provide unsustainable windfall for miners and Josh Frydenberg
The iron ore prices has surged 70 per cent this year in response to supply shortfalls that won't last.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Mining
Fortescue expects 2400 hires as first sod turned on Eliwana iron ore mine
Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) has turned the sod on its $1.7 billion Eliwana iron ore mine, announcing $330 million in contracts with another $500 million expected before the end of 2019.
- by Nathan Hondros
Mining
Iron ore surge boosting budget and exports but hangover coming
A surge in iron ore prices will help the Coalition's budget bottom line, with record level of resource exports ahead.
- by Shane Wright
Indigenous
FMG contracts cement Pilbara as home of country's biggest Aboriginal-owned businesses
The two contracts were valued at $179 million and were awarded to Yindjibarndi businesses through FMG's Billion Opportunities program.
Mining
BHP reveals four Australian tailings dams pose 'extreme' risks
BHP has revealed that four of the dams it has built in Australia to store toxic mining waste carry the highest possible risk classification
- by Hamish Hastie
Opinion
Opinion
Even if it all turns sour, 2019 is already a vintage year for iron ore
Investors in the commodity have hit the jackpot as the price soars past $US100. And the boom has added about $4 billion to federal government coffers.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Clive Palmer
Citic loses appeal, must keep paying Clive Palmer iron ore royalties
Clive Palmer's estranged Chinese joint venture partner has largely lost an appeal over royalties from their massive iron ore project.
Clive Palmer
Clive Palmer's Mineralogy 'starved' for cash, court told in tenement dispute
Palmer's representatives unsuccessfully argued in the mining warden’s court that Mineralogy was so “starved” for funds it couldn’t afford a $50,000 lease condition.
- by Emma Young
Mining
Coal 'not essential' to human progress, but steel is, says Rio chairman
You can live without coal, but not without steel made from Rio Tinto's iron ore, Simon Thompson tells shareholders at the miner's annual general meeting.
- by Darren Gray