Mining and Metals Industry

Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South coal mine in central Queensland's Bowen Basin plans to extract up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year for about 30 years.

The High Court rules in favour of native title holders in the Northern Territory preventing mining giant Glencore from expanding a critical part of its large zinc and lead mine on the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The combined business would reportedly have had an LNG (liquefied natural gas) capacity of 16 million tonnes a year.

The closure of the Russell Vale mine in Wollongong prompts calls for miners to be given better re-employment options.

The troubled Russell Vale Colliery, located in the northern Illawarra region of New South Wales, has notified its workforce of its impending closure. 

There is no scientific evidence that water divining works, so why are so many landholders still using it as a method to find water?

Australian mining company Tivan shares its plans to mine fluorite in the Kimberley in an announcement to the ASX, following the material's recent addition to the national critical minerals list.

It is the latest in a run of negative news for the critical minerals sector in Western Australia as an analysts warns reduced production at the lithium mine is a bad sign for smaller producers.

Plummeting critical mineral prices have pushed WA's major industry players to mothball their mines, workers to lose jobs and the government to all but panic. What's the fallout and what comes next?

Nickel miners could pay less to mine in WA, as the government holds crisis talks with the resources industry as mines shut and hundreds of jobs are lost.

If the Upper Calliope Solar Farm in central Queensland is approved, mining giant Rio Tinto will use the electricity generated to power its operations in Gladstone. But some locals want more detail about the project.

The owner of Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine is feeding additional power into the grid as Western Power continues to repair a 220-kilovolt transmission line damaged in last week's storms and local generator suppliers do their best to accommodate unprecedented demand.

WA Police have charged 20 people and seized more than 30 tonnes of allegedly stolen gold bearing ore in the state's Goldfields as part of the latest crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs.

The sudden evaporation of hype and hot air in the energy transition industry may leave many who plunged into critical minerals in a critical condition, writes business editor Ian Verrender.

More than 250 mining jobs are set to be affected by the closure of another operation in WA's once-booming nickel industry as prices slump.

US lithium giant Albemarle has announced it will cut jobs and scale back an expansion of its refinery WA's South West amid a downturn in the sector.

Luke O'Brien is the 24th worker to lose his life in a Queensland mining accident in the past decade. Experts say while the industry is hazardous, it should be possible to mine without fatalities.

The outback company helped with the war effort in the 1940s, established a vital railway and fostered a rural multicultural melting pot while transforming the industry with constant innovation.

The owner of the Ravensthorpe nickel operation on WA's south coast says it will suspend mining and cut 30 per cent of its 420-strong workforce. 

Newmont's Telfer gold mine is forced to suspend processing after "cracking and seeping" is detected at a tailings dam, about 200 kilometres east of Marble Bar.

The chief executive of a peak body says the Kwinana industrial area in Perth's south must undergo drastic change if it is to meet state government emissions targets.

Panoramic Resources plans to axe 140 on-site jobs as it winds up the Savannah nickel mine in Western Australia, with the price of the base metal falling by more than 44 per cent in the past year.

As US mining giant Alcoa says it will close its refinery in Kwinana in Perth's south, an expert warns the hit to Western Australia's economy will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Around 1,000 workers are set to lose their jobs as Alcoa announces it will phase down production at its alumina refinery in Perth's south.

The reshuffled Northern Territory government has refused to investigate health concerns about the remote manganese mine at the centre of former chief minister Natasha Fyles's resignation in December.