It’s the latest look at how big miners are hoping to lure in staff amid a chronic skills shortage — a new luxury seaside fly in, fly out accommodation complex complete with a plethora of recreational amenities.
Cheyanne Enciso
AI-focused small caps, miners, and technology businesses could outperform businesses hit by slumping consumer confidence and falling house prices, professional investors say.
Tom Richardson
Unions claim their weekend strike at BHP’s sole WA iron ore port wiped out about $US20 million of export income, but the company insists operations weren’t materially disrupted.
Adrian Rauso
BHP has slashed jobs at its diversity-focused academy in Perth and issued a broad apology amid accusations of sexual harassment against one of its trainers.
A key union at BHP’s WA iron ore port has thrown a spanner in the works of planned strike action this weekend, fuelled by member fears of losing two days’ pay.
Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane
Mines Minister Daniel Pastorell ruled out lifting WA’s uranium mining ban despite a Federal deal and is not tempted to bump up the gold royalty rate amid sky-high prices for the precious metal.
Joe Hockey is on board with secret plans for a Pilbara iron ore cartel to counter China’s hardball tactics and he believes Jim Chalmers should have more veto powers over critical minerals deals.
BHP has garnered sympathy from one of its Pilbara iron ore rivals as union-led strikes escalate in an industry landscape that has ‘shifted dramatically’.
Fortescue has stepped up warnings that China is distorting the iron ore market amid a huge value wipeout at its long-troubled Iron Bridge mine.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
Union members at BHP’s sole WA iron ore port will significantly escalate industrial action despite their first strike falling flat.
Australia's richest export market could be at risk unless it takes urgent action to manufacture green steel on home soil, according to a study.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Rio Tinto’s push to decentralise power away from its London headquarters has fostered a more collaborative relationship with arch-rival BHP, according to Simon Trott.
Rio Tinto is looking to sell, instead of restart, its mothballed Mt Cattlin mine in WA amid a lithium price revival.
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources has closed out a resurgent financial year with a quarterly record at its all-important Onslow Iron operation.
The miner’s creditors include the WA Government, which is owed $1.5 million in unpaid royalties, commodities trading giant Trafigura and the Kimberley Ports Authority.
Sean Smith
Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest has urged Beijing to “negotiate fairly” as its state-run iron ore procurer increasingly tries to squeeze WA’s iron ore miners on price.
Contracts are beginning to roll out for BHP’s $1.3 billion Yandi mine extension, with GR Engineering securing a $230 million deal to kickstart construction.
New filings by Mr Palmer’s privately-owned family flagship, Mineralogy, show royalty income fell to $257.1 million in the 2025 financial year from $415.5m a year earlier.
A coalition of unions and BHP have pencilled in more talks next week after ‘some progress’ was made at their latest bargaining meeting to resolve a bitter pay dispute.
An imminent ‘super El Niño’ is set to devastate swathes of the Australian economy but could cast a ray of sunshine on the Pilbara’s iron ore giants, according to analysis by UBS.
Unions striking at BHP’s WA port have finally lifted the lid on their pay demands, telling the Big Australian to cough up a $25,000 wage hike for each worker to make the problem ‘go away’.
Battle lines have been drawn as workers join unions and mining companies fiercely resist change. So what does BHP want, and what new terms are today’s striking workers fighting for?
Alexis Vassiley
Strike action by BHP workers in the Pilbara today — the first in almost three decades — has marred revelations that the Big Australian has pulled in its biggest-ever haul of iron ore.
Daniel Newell
Rio Tinto is keeping a watching brief on the latest flare up of tensions in the Middle East as it counts the cost of soaring diesel prices that drove up production expenses in the first half.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
