Mining
Commercial deep-sea mining in the Pacific could begin in months without policy guardrails due to increasing rivalry between the US and China over critical minerals, a new report warns.
Badimia people and businesses are set to share in employment, training, contracting and financial benefits from the proposed Youanmi gold mine in Western Australia after a new Native Title mining agre...
"Just say yes."That was the callout to Australia's company leaders at the start of the annual Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie on Monday.
Yanyuwa artist George Cooley has painted the desert landscape around Coober Pedy in his finalist work for the Telstra General Painting Award at the 2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait I...
Evidence has been uncovered which points to Aboriginal mining of stones at Sugarloaf Hill in South Australia's Riverland. The first detailed investigation into an Aboriginal chert and silcrete quarry...
A landmark update of a decades-old Indenture agreement guiding development at Olympic Dam and copper-rich Gawler Craton was ratified by the South Parliament on Tuesday despite serious concerns from af...
New training and employment opportunities for Condobolin's local Aboriginal community are now available following the opening of a new seedbank and nursery.
South Australia's push to formalise a new long-term agreement with mining giant BHP has angered Traditional Owner groups. Key points: SA government set a six-working-day submission window Bill forma...
There is a familiar narrative in the way Aboriginal heritage is discussed in Western Australia. It's a decades-old plot concerning "heritage rorts", "price gouging"[1], and delay and inefficiency in s...
The influence of Pacific nations shaping seabed mining regulations should not be underestimated, according to the head of the United Nations body for the growing industry.
West Papuan separatists in the occupied territory's eastern region allege eight gold miners they shot and killed on Thursday were undercover members of Indonesian security forces.
Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation, a partnership between the Yindjibarndi People and multinational renewable energy developers ACEN Corporation, will begin construction of the Jinbi Solar Project in the...
Yarrala, a waterhole in Western Australia's West Pilbara where Robe River Kuruma women once gave birth, has dried out and filled with red pindan earth, with Traditional Owners blaming Rio Tinto's grou...
