This project was the catalyst for the discovery in 2020 of Chalice Mining’s Gonneville deposit in Julimar, Western Australia, the world’s largest nickel sulphide discovery in more than 20 ...

Home to the world’s second largest copper reserves and the eighth largest copper producer globally in 2024, Australia holds dozens of operating copper mines.Data from Geoscience Australia's ...

Despite being half a world apart, Peru and Western Australia have more in common than meets the eye — except, perhaps, the ...

Joe Norton, a large man with a sun-burnt face, digs into a plate full of beef, potatoes, carrots and Brussels sprouts at Searipple, a mobile-home camp in Australia's western frontier.

An Aussie mining town has been rocked by two earthquakes within five hours. The first 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck Port Hedland, in Western Australia's Pilbara region, at 8.44am on Wednesday ...

Category 5 storms have a maximum wind speed of more than 280 kph (174mph) the BOM’s Western Australia manager James Ashley told the news conference. Storms of Zelia’s magnitude are rare, with ...

Fortescue Ltd. plans to buy Red Hawk Mining Ltd. to gain access to an undeveloped iron ore mine near its major Solomon project in Western Australia. The offer price of as much as A$1.20 cash per ...

Western Australia supplies more than half of the world's seaborne iron ore and half of its lithium. Its resources sector delivered A$254-billion ($167 billion) in sales in the 2022-2023 fiscal year.

And Australia isn’t the only place dealing with mine retirement and subsequent rehabilitation efforts.In 2002, Canada established the National Orphaned/Abandoned Mines Advisory Committee, consisting ...