The industry has celebrated the opening of the a new $1.76 billion coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin. Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has congratulated the QCoal Group and JFE Steel...
Category - Exploration
A multinational mining services company has received an extension for its Central Queensland tender worth $1.3 billion. A subsidiary of CIMIC Group recently secured a six-year contract extension to...
Potential oil exploration off the southern shore of Australia appears to have drawn mixed views from across the nation, a new study has found. The Australia Institute has found most people believe...
A base metal producer will receive special treatment so it can ramp up its $150 million operations in northwest Queensland. New Century Resources will be allowed to pay mining royalties later for its...
A China-funded metal mine expansion worth $800 million could be cancelled if Australia’s military chiefs consider its South Australian location to be a threat to national security, it was...
Anti-mining activists interrupted a ministerial speech about the future of the resources industry in Queensland on August 13. Protestors linked to the Get Up Australia movement recently unfurled...
An oil and energy company is planning an ambitious $77 billion oil, gas and infrastructure development in Western Australia’s Canning Basin. Theia Energy is investigating the feasibility of...
A multinational oil and gas partnership has put safety at the top of its agenda for a new addition to part of a gas project estimated to be worth up to $53 billion. The Chevron Australia and the...
The nation’s top advocate has made it his mission to allow controversial types of gas exploration in all states and territories. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is fed up with state and territory...
A resources company has successfully trialled an exploration method that involves inspecting vegetation for traces of precious metal. Marmota has found reading tree leaves is an effective way to...
Indigenous Australian conservationists have lost their legal bid to stop a radioactive project worth $430 million. The Supreme Court of Western Australia’s Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal...
A so-called mining advocate is launching a crackdown against the industry by banning oil and gas exploration across nearly half of the Northern Territory. NT Minister for Primary Industry and...