Rio Tinto’s $2.6 billion Amrun mine in Queensland is cementing Australia’s standing as the world’s top producer of bauxite.

Hancock Prospecting has achieved a breakthrough in its takeover bid for Riversdale Resources by gaining acceptance of the offer from the coking coal company’s largest shareholder.

Fenix Resources has entered into a strategic alliance with trucking and logistics company Minehaul that will advance development of the Iron Ridge project in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

Finalists of the 2019 Women in Industry Awards are in to showcase the exceptional women who have achieved success through leadership, innovation and commitment to their sector.

Lithium companies Lepidico and Desert Lion have announced they will merge to create a “global leader in the development of lithium chemicals from Lepidolite.”

AVZ Minerals has declared the Manono lithium-tin project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the world’s largest measured and indicated lithium resource.

Heron Resources has marked the start of full production activities with ore processing at its Woodlawn zinc-copper mine in New South Wales.

BHP has been hit with the largest damages claim in British legal history through a group action lawsuit seeking $US5 billion ($7.2 billion) over the 2015 Fundão dam collapse in Brazil.

Northern Star Resources has added 60-ton Volvo A60H articulated trucks to meet the Alaska-based Pogo mine’s requirement of producing four million ounces of gold by the middle of next year.

Australian iron ore stocks have responded strongly following news that Brazilian courts have again stopped operations at Vale’s Brucutu mine.

The Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) has launched its latest airborne gravity survey in the Pilbara region covering an area of 170,000 square kilometres.

Hancock Prospecting has increased its takeover offer for Riversdale Resources, taking its proposed buyout to over $645 million, provided it owns more than 85 per cent of the target company.

Caterpillar will supply machinery and autonomous technology for Rio Tinto’s Koodaideri iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

A team of German scientists has proven for the first time that the concentration of gold in the notorious ‘fool’s gold’ directly depends on the level of arsenic in the pyrite where the gold is encrusted.

A Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) study shows that mining job demand has risen considerably over the past three years.

The Andrews government has moved to strengthen Victoria’s resource guidelines, setting a higher standard for those accessing the state’s mineral resources.

AngloGold Ashanti has awarded Kalgoorlie Power Systems with a contract expansion to increase power capacity for its Tropicana underground development in Western Australia.

Talison Lithium has awarded Mondium a $100 million contract for the design and construction of a new tailing retreatment processing plant at the Greenbushes mine in Western Australia.

AuStar Gold has entered into discussions with the administrators of Centennial Mining to assess proposing a deed of company arrangement with its creditors.