Australia is projected to earn A$136 billion from iron ore exports during this financial year, as global steelmaking activity rebounds from a COVID-led downturn. A report released by the Australian government on Monday showed that the country’s most valuable economic export is expected to earn more...
BHP has reported damage to a culturally significant Aboriginal site near one of its iron ore mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, nine months after Rio Tinto accidentally destroyed ancient rock shelters in the same region. While the Juukan Gorge incident occurred when Rio...
Peak industry body Shipping Australia has labelled a decision to impose a new A$13,450 fee on every major iron ore export at Port Hedland in Western Australia as a ‘breathtakingly outrageous charge’. The Pilbara Ports Authority will bring in the export charge in March to fund...
Australia has asked Rio Tinto to appoint an Australian as its next chief executive, in an attempt to sharpen the mining giant’s focus on a country that generates a significant bulk of its total earnings. The Australian government’s treasurer Josh Frydenberg made the request after Rio’s...
Rio Tinto has apologised to the traditional owners of a 46,000-year old sacred indigenous site that was blown up with dynamite during work to expand its iron ore operation in Australia’s Pilbara region. The Anglo-Australian mining giant destroyed two ancient caves last week in Juukan Gorge,...