BHP Billiton is seeking approval from the Federal, South Australian and Northern Territory Governments to significantly expand its mining and processing operations at Olympic Dam in northern South Australia.
04/06/2009
NORTHERN Territory Resources Council chief executive Scott Perkins says the group is to be disbanded and set to become part of a national body.
15/04/2009
A HEARING has got underway for a man charged with pegging out a mining claim in the Northern Territory.
12/11/2008
Phosphate Australia is considering the construction of $226 million steel pipeline to aid the development of its Highland Plains project.
09/02/2010
A mining explorer may pay the Northern Territory government more than double its total mining royalties for the right to a single phosphate project.
09/09/2008
THE ASSOCIATION of Mining & Exploration Companies (AMEC) is advocating a Resource Exploration Acceleration Program (REAP) initiative to save mineral exploration in Western Australia.
19/08/2008
SAND mining is set to create hundreds of jobs in Victoria as a new operation gets underway in the Murray Basin region.
20/01/2009
McARTHUR River Mine has been recognised as Mine of the Year at the Australian Mining Prospect Awards.
24/10/2008
LLOYDS North has provided long-term dry hire of an excavator and dump truck at a silica deposit in northern Tasmania.
16/10/2009
WORKERS at Xstrata’s Kidd metallurgical operations in the U.S look set to strike over wage increases and contracts as a three-year contract expires.
02/10/2008
AUSTRALIA'S Environment Minister Peter Garrett has approved Xstrata’s mine expansion plans on the proviso the company follows new stringent environmental conditions and actively engages local stakeholders.
23/02/2009
ILUKA Resources says a new processing plant will help boost the company which suffered a 77% fall in mineral sands sales revenue in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2008.
17/04/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government has criticised Premier Anna Bligh over her refusal to allow uranium mining in the state.
03/03/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Resources Council (QRC) has announced that Botswana has overtaken Queensland as a preferred destination for new mining investment as declared by the latest Fraser Institute rankings of global mining provinces.
09/03/2009