Fortescue Metals Group has completed a $US600 million ($881 million) bond offering that will be used to partially repay its $US1.4 billion 2022 loan facility.

Acquisition is the way to survival as major new greenfields discoveries appear to have dried up, according to PCF Capital principal Liam Twigger.

Wesfarmers’ $776 million bid to acquire Kidman Resources has been overwhelmingly backed by the lithium miner’s shareholders.

Vale has sold the Jaguar Nickel Sulphide Project to Centaurus Metals in a US$7 ($10.3) million-dollar deal.

Queensland’s safety reset is nearing completion, with just a small number of the state’s mine and quarry workforce left to complete the program.

Geopacific Resources has issued a letter of intent to contract GR Engineering for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) works at the Woodlark gold project in Papua New Guinea.

Orion Minerals has partnered with Byrnecut Offshore to provide underground mine development and mine production services at the Prieska copper-zinc project in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Anti-coal activists allegedly assaulted an contractor employee at Adani Australia’s rail construction site north of Clermont in Queensland.

Komatsu will deploy 41 automation-ready Komatsu 930E-5 ultra-class haul trucks at BHP’s South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia from next month.

An ‘old-school gold rush’ kicked off in the Pilbara goldfields in 2017 with the discovery of hundreds of gold nuggets shaped like watermelon seeds.

The seaborne iron ore price has experienced its largest one month drop in almost eight years as shipments increased to China sparking supply pressure.

Pilbara Minerals plans to sell an 8.5 per cent stake in the company to China’s largest electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer despite a slowdown in lithium’s largest market.

Glencore has won a dispute against the Australian Tax Office (ATO) after the federal court ruled the Swiss parent company paid the correct amount of tax on its copper concentrate purchases from an Australian mine.

AuStar Gold is set to acquire Centennial Mining following the Victorian gold producer’s appointment of administrators in March.

The Western Australian Government has declared applications for the Minerals Research Institute’s PhD program open.

Panoramic Resources has failed to reach its forecast ore output at the Savannah nickel-copper-cobalt project in Western Australia over the past two months following a much-improved June quarter.

The Queensland Parliament’s relocation to the state’s north serves as an “important symbolic gesture” just as New Hope Group shed 150 jobs from its New Acland mine near Oakey yesterday.

CSIRO has introduced the National Virtual Core Library (NVCL), a digitised collection of 10 million metres of drill core estimated to be archived in warehouses around Australia.