Women allege stalking, underwear theft at Fortescue mine sites in latest class action

Opinion: China may have the upper hand in iron ore dispute with BHP A largely unknown site has said the quiet part out loud.  On Friday evening, SteelOrbis, a small website based in Istanbul, published a story suggesting that BHP (ASX: BHP) would settle 30% of its spot iron ore sales to China in RMB instead of US dollars starting in Q4 2025.  The report, while attention grabbing, has yet to be confirmed, as both BHP and China’s state-run iron ore buyer CMRG...

South32’s Worsley receives key approval Worsley Alumina in WA has received federal environmental approval for the Worsley Mine Development Project under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999). This follows South32’s (ASX: S32) appeal of the WA EPA’s recommendations for the Worsley mine expansion in July 2024. The federal approval is subject to conditions which are substantively consistent with the state environmental approval received on December 20, 2024. The development project will enable access to bauxite to sustain production at Worsley Alumina, with mining of bauxite areas located near existing operations expected to...

Federal Government to bail out Mount Isa The Federal and Queensland Governments will provide a $600m support package to maintain operations at the Mount Isa copper smelter and Townsville copper refinery. The agreement will allow the smelter — which provides half of Australia’s copper smelting capacity — and the refinery to continue operations until the end of 2028. Australia has only two operational copper smelters — Mount Isa and BHP’s at Olympic Dam — but they face huge competition from China. China has invested heavily in copper smelting and now has 44 smelters, with the surge in Chinese production creating an unprecedented decline...

Net zero, the Safeguard Mechanism and Australia’s project approvals system would be put on the chopping block under a Coalition Government.