Three iron ore producers that collectively sustain about 1000 WA jobs are in financial distress but WA Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli is kicking the can down the road.
Adrian Rauso
FIFO caterer Sodexo is again under pressure after scores of workers at Rio Tinto’s Pilbara mine camps fell ill amid a major salmonella outbreak.
Australia’s resources boom is about to end as official forecasts point to a sharp drop in export revenue over the coming years, driven largely by falling WA iron ore and gas earnings.
An iron ore miner in WA’s far north said the State’s Mines Minister agreed to a payment plan for royalties it owes.
BHP was the only Pilbara iron ore giant to have replenished the reserves it mined over the past decade, according to fresh analysis.
BHP boss Brandon Craig appealed to China’s steel industry bigwigs and political leaders to ‘protect’ an iron ore trade relationship that has created ‘shared success’.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is wading back into a long-running legal feud with Traditional Owners over a patch of Fortescue’s vast iron ore empire in the Pilbara.
Daniel Newell
Unions and BHP have officially reached a stalemate at the miner’s sole Pilbara iron ore port, with the national workplace umpire asked to pick a side.
The State’s key mining lobby group has estimated that extracting WA’s known deposits of minerals, metals and fuels would easily fetch $8 trillion.
Nearly 30 staff-owners have shared $20.9m in dividends after the broker and corporate adviser more than doubled net profit to a record $38.3m, as revenue leapt 84 per cent to $118.9m.
Sean Smith
China’s state-backed iron ore buyer has told some steel mills to hold off on purchases of Rio Tinto’s Pilbara Blend, as contract talks with the Australian miner reach a critical point.
Alfred Cang and Katharine Gemmell
The Federal Government faces a fresh diplomatic balancing act as the world’s largest steelmaker looks to grow its slice of WA’s iron ore pie.
Adrian Rauso and Daniel Newell
One of the executives who helped to resolve a tense standoff with China Mineral Resources Group is leaving the miner.
Daniel Newell and Paul-Alain Hunt
Element Zero’s ambitious plans to turn Australian iron ore into iron using renewable electricity have been given a massive cash boost.
Rebecca Le May
The Big Australian is swinging the axe on a chunk of its 1600-strong workforce at a massive Pilbara iron ore mine.
Billionaire mining entrepreneur Chris Ellison will pocket about $19 million after his Mineral Resources swung from $896 million loss to a $1.2 billion net profit for the recent financial year.
Fortescue has suspended an executive at the centre of a sexual harassment investigation, days after defending its decision not to do so.
The mining mammoth shipped its first iron ore from WA on this day 60 years ago, marking one of the most important milestones in the State’s economic history.
Growing means improving productivity and boosting investment so benefits continue to flow for future generations. Getting it right means stable and progressive policy.
Matt Holcz
Fortescue’s troubled Iron Bridge mine has dragged net profit and dividends down further than expected.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
WA’s safety regulator is investigating BHP’s Pilbara iron ore port after a contractor had his arm crushed earlier this month on the same weekend that unions staged a strike.
One of Australia's first green iron projects has reached a milestone, producing molten metal from an electric furnace for the first time.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Fortescue’s Christmas Creek green iron pilot plant is in production, kicking off what the mining giant hopes will become Australia’s next major export industry.
The Big Australian is riding high on a bumper profit from record copper prices and claimed victory over the unions which infiltrated its Pilbara iron ore empire.
