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China’s production of steel – much of it made from Australian iron ore – has been slowing.

Rio Tinto takes hit as Trump trade war casts cloud over miners

A slowdown in Chinese demand for steel has also weighed on Australia’s largest iron ore miner, as it delivers its smallest first-half profit in five years.

  • Nick Toscano

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full bench of the NSW Court of Appeal invalidates the permission for Indonesian company MACH Energy to extend the Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook for another 22 years after its current approval expires in 2026.

Court overturns massive coal mine approval on climate grounds

The NSW Court of Appeal found the planning authority must consider climate change impacts even if the coal is being exported to burn overseas.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Rio’s new boss, Simon Trott.

Corporate fairytale: How a boy from the bush rose to run world’s third-largest mining giant

Apart from his other qualities Rio Tinto’s new boss, Simon Trott, ticked a vitally important career box – he is a Juukan Gorge-scandal cleanskin.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Australia’s mining exports are headed for a fall thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs stifling demand in Asia.

Australian exports to tumble as Trump’s tariff war hits home

Australia is at risk of a $27 billion collapse in income from two of its biggest exports as the US-China trade war chokes demand.

  • Nick Toscano

In one awful decision, Albanese has revealed his do-nothing plan

If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.

  • Ross Gittins
The steel sector generates more than 8 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The Pilbara is at risk of becoming a ‘wasteland’. Could green iron help?

As Australia’s iron giants face difficulties maintaining the quality of their supplies, there are fears demand could shrink as Chinese steel mills go green.

  • Simon Johanson and Nick Toscano
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Rio’s chairman Dominic Barton (left) and chief executive Jakob Stausholm at a mining summit in Perth.

Rio Tinto on the hunt for new blood after CEO exit

A global search is underway to replace the boss of mining giant Rio Tinto, Jakob Stausholm, who will step down later this year.

  • Simon Johanson
AFR Chairman Dominic Barton at the Rio Tinto AGM in Perth.

The $160b Australian giant that has just dodged a bullet

Rio Tinto has fended off an activist investor’s year-long campaign.

  • Jesinta Burton
An F-35 fighter jet.

How China is controlling Australia’s – and the world’s – rare earths trade

China is threatening to land a knockout blow in its trade war with Donald Trump, targeting a vulnerability in the United States’ most crucial military infrastructure with a strike that was decades in the making.

  • Simon Johanson and Colin Kruger
One thing that has kept Australia in Trump’s good books has been the fact we have a trade deficit with the US.

Trump wants them. China needs them. So Albanese has a $1b scheme to stockpile them

Labor has pledged to create a stockpile for critical minerals, which are coveted by US president Donald Trump while supply is controlled by China.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

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