A multinational company is planning huge redundancies for its metal processing operations in Central Queensland. Boyne Aluminum Smelter will cut output and a “significant number of jobs”...
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Australia should avoid prematurely killing-off a multinational trade partnership says one of the nation’s leading industry bodies for the exploration, mining and minerals processing. The...
Plenty of new projects across coastal Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia have triggered a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export boom. Australia’s LNG exports rose 37.7 per cent to...
Mining iron ore could become more profitable again, with the value of ferrous metal rising to encouraging heights again says a commodity pricing agency. The Steel Index found the Northern China...
Boom times could be just around the corner, following new research showing mining production is on the increase. According to industry information service Resources Monitor, there could be a gradual...
The Northern Territory is hoping to tap into the growing lithium market, with a record number of mining companies exploring in the state. Ian Scrimgeour from the NT Department of Mines and Energy...
The announcement that Peabody Energy, the world’s largest non-government coal company, is to file for bankruptcy in the United States is one of more symbolic than substantive significance. In the US...
The global economic environment has generated a number of significant challenges for the Australian mining industry. Slowing economic growth particularly in China has softened demand; while...
By Peter van Duyn, Maritime Logistics Expert, Institute for Supply Chain and Logistics, Victoria University The change to foreign ownership of Australian companies and critical infrastructure...
BHP Billiton today announced a new “simplified” operating model to accelerate productivity and create a more agile company “ready to respond to the challenges and opportunities...
