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BHP has added two years to its Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO) air charter services contract with Alliance Aviation Services.

BHP plans to seek approval for an extension of operations at the Mount Arthur thermal coal mine in New South Wales to 2045 despite recent efforts to sell the asset.

BHP will progress to phase three of its minerals targeting agreement with SensOre after receiving encouraging outcomes from a discovery exercise.

The Australian Government has now opened applications for its Future of Work Partnership with BHP to encourage mining skills development in regional areas.

Iron ore prices for Australian fines imports to China have recovered to US$160.1 ($210) per dry metric tonne after falling to a six-week low earlier in the week.

BHP has agreed to support Automotive Data of China in a two-year partnership to develop the research of electrified transport.

BHP chief technical officer Laura Tyler has highlighted that the mining sector is coming to the “golden age” of discovery thanks to technology’s ability to reveal systems under cover.

Cohiba Minerals has returned assays of up to 12.15 per cent copper at the Gawler Craton in South Australia, which is located near BHP’s Olympic Dam mine and Oak West discovery.

BHP has penned an agreement with Chinese customer HBIS Group to evaluate solutions that will reduce greenhouse gas from ironmaking and steelmaking.

National Group expects the preference for dry hire to continue to increase as Australia’s mining sector goes from strength to strength.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has set more than 120 careers in the resources industry in motion through their largest ever apprenticeship intake.

BHP has launched a joint investigation with the Banjima people into the cause of a rock fall which occurred last month at a registered Aboriginal site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Gold, iron ore and coal mining companies have helped deliver an additional 1300 jobs to New South Wales’ mining sector in 2019-20.

BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has awarded a contract to Jord International to address a maintenance hazard during filter press repairs at the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland.

If anyone can tell you the cost of implementing and running an LTE network, it should be Aqura Technologies. They’ve designed, delivered or supported the lion’s share of Australia’s Private LTE networks.

BHP expects iron ore demand will remain strong due to increases in Chinese steelmaker activity.

BHP has constructed 90 per cent of the South Flank iron ore project in Western Australia, keeping the development on track to start production by mid 2021.

The Brisbane-based Cooperative Research Centre focussed on Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE) has introduced a suite of technologies that could integrate the value of preconcentration into an entire mining value chain.

BHP has established another working collaboration that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the steelmaking process, this time with Japanese Steel producer JFE Steel.

BHP has renewed an education partnership agreement with the Western Australian Government that will help prepare students across the Pilbara region for school.