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.

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 ...

In March 2024, South African mining company Gold Fields approved a landmark renewables project at the St Ives mine near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia (WA). The initiative – Gold Fields ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A visitor walks in front of an iron ore carrier at Rio Tinto's Port Dampier operations in Western Australia, 1,250 kilometres (777 miles) north east of Perth, Australia, October 20, 2023.