BHP lifts profit to $14.93 billion
MINING giant BHP Billiton is spinning off its aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets into a new company.
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Golden star: The rise of Northern Star
It has been a turbulent period in the history of WA’s gold sector, but for one Perth producer the past year was a golden opportunity.
BHP still pumping iron at record rate
BHP Billiton is expected to report a bumper full year profit after achieving a 15th straight year of record iron ore production.
Mine did not report huge acid spill
A PRIVATE copper mine had the audacity to not report a massive acid spill. And now the acid has flowed into a river that supplies water to thousands of people.
Australia, it’s time to sit up and take notice
IT IS the ticking time bomb that could trigger another financial crisis and almost every working Australian is exposed to it. You have been warned.
Mega marquee for Diggers gala dinner
NORTHERN Star Resources chief Bill Beament named Diggers and Dealers’ “dealer of the year” at WA’s largest remote dinner.
Road paved with gold for explorer
A MINING firm that grew six-fold after a big gold discovery believes there is “plenty more to come”. | Skimpies spook bank
Paydirt with last roll of the dice
THREE years ago, Mark Bennett was unable to get a hotel room to attend Diggers and Dealers. Then came the discovery of a lifetime.
Gas to help FMG repay $2b debt
IRON ore miner Fortescue to pay down more than $2b in debt as it looks to save $400 million by converting its operations to gas.
Thousands sacked as miner collapses
MORE than 3500 workers have lost their jobs after a mining services company was placed into administration.
Mining tax to stay … for now
IT got a win with axing the carbon tax, but the Abbott government hasn’t had the same luck with the mining tax. And it has Palmer United Party Senators to blame.
Debt-laden FMG to buy eight ships
FORTESCUE plans to spend $550 million on ships but the investment ‘will not affect’ its strategy to pay down $7b in debt.
Abbott: We can’t mine without Japan
THE mining boom in WA’s iron-ore rich Pilbara region could not have happened without Japan, Tony Abbott said on his whirlwind tour of the area today.
Secret $700m deal ripping us apart
A SECRET $700m deal; the most feared Aboriginal organisation in Australia; and a clan feud. This is the conflict tearing our land apart.
FIFO war: 8000 threaten strikes
A $60 billion project could grind to a halt as 8000 Queensland-based fly-in fly-out workers face off against a global construction giant.
BHP sacks 500 iron ore workers
HUNDREDS of WA iron ore jobs lost as BHP Billiton slashes costs, while the Premier admits it’s not a great time for mining.
BHP sacks 500 iron ore workers
BHP Billiton will cut 500 Australian jobs out of its iron ore business as part of a plan to cut costs as iron ore prices fall.
China to strengthen iron grip in WA
CHINA’S Baosteel set to secure a big iron ore holding in WA after Mineral Resources failed to take control of Aquila Resources.
Shell sells most of Woodside stake
WOODSIDE will spend nearly $3b after Shell announced it would sell most of its stake in the WA-based oil and gas giant.
Fracking green light for Kimberley
THE WA government has decided to allow Buru Energy to frack for gas in the Kimberley without an EPA assessment.
BHP axes 170 jobs at Pilbara mine
UPDATE: UNION says workers have been treated appallingly as BHP Billiton announces it has axed 170 jobs at its Mt Whaleback mine.
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