Scores of jobs are set to go after BHP decided to ‘significantly scale back’ activity at an iron ore mine that employs about 800 people and is a key union target.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has conceded high energy prices are a factor in the possible closure of Australia’s largest aluminium smelter.

Mining giants BHP Group (BHP) and Rio Tinto (RIO) are seeking support from President Donald Trump after a U.S. court ruling stalled their Arizona copper project. The setback has pushed the companies ...

Rio Tinto warned on Tuesday that Australia's largest aluminium smelter, Tomago, may be forced to shut down as it struggles to ...

For five days in January, a few hundred protesters armed with slingshots in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, blocked the road to one of the country’s largest economic assets, a $940 million mining operation ...