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Even if the price of iron ore remains low, Australia is still well placed to benefit from this resource in the future.
Increased competition and weak commodities prices will pressure to the mining sector to cut costs.
Zimbabwe has said it will take over all diamond mining operations in the country. But what is needed to maximise revenues isn’t state ownership, but improvements in existing regulatory practices.
Do fossil fuels need saving from efforts to combat climate change? The Australian government seems to think so, but that sort of thinking is out of date.
BHP’s board has navigated well through mining’s highs and lows and still passed the shareholder value test.
The decline in commodity prices means African countries must work that much harder to encourage both local and foreign smaller and junior mining companies.
Parents in three Australian states are being given misleading advice about the dangers of lead to babies and small children – including failing to warn pregnant women about miscarriage risks.
Shopping for a gold ring? New guidelines seek to be the rough equivalent of Fair Trade for small-scale gold mining.
Anglo American has announced it will cut 85,000 jobs worldwide, as profits slump and mining communities bear the brunt of the commodities crunch.
There are ‘fossil free’ campaigns at 15 Australian universities, but yet no university has fully committed to divesting in fossil fuels.
With costs set to run into the billions, the Samarco mine disaster will hang over BHP for some time to come.
Six people are dead and more than 20 missing following the Samarco mine disaster in Brazil. But in the rush to blame we must consider the complexity of such failures.
Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.
The Academy says it will withdraw “millions of dollars” from investments in environmentally sensitive activities, primarily in energy and mining companies.
The bubbles generated by Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson have been worth over $36 billion to the Australian economy. He has just received the 2015 Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation.
Could orange peel help clean up the oceans?
A new technique that uses lasers to determine the composition of groundwater is helping us protect that most precious resource.
Mining waste rock from historic mines or even treated sewage to find useful metals and minerals could be a sustainable way to meet demand for these finite resources.
South Africa is seismically stable and should consider mining geothermal plants to solve its energy crisis.
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