Australia’s Human Rights Law Centre has issued a statement saying that the residents of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have welcomed this week’s decision by the Australian government to accept…
Pink diamonds, already rare, are about to get scarcer as Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has closed its iconic Argyle diamond mine, the world’s biggest and the…
The world’s second largest miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is investing US$51 million to upgrade facilities at its Vaudreuil alumina refinery in Quebec. The company said three new…
Mining giant BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) has shelved a planned US$2.5 billion expansion of its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine in South Australia, after studies of the…
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LON: BHP) has reached an eleventh-hour deal with a coalition of Aboriginal land councils, as shareholders were pushing for a halt to all mining on sacred Indigenous…
License to operate (LTO) remains, for the third consecutive year, the number one issue for miners, according to a survey by Ernst & Young with over 250 executives, while a…
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) acknowledged on Thursday it was aware of Australian Aboriginal groups’ concerns about the future of dozens of heritage sites before it sought and obtained approval…
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) has told Australian Aboriginal groups to freely speak their mind about the way it manages cultural heritage as the miner readies to appear before a…
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques will step down by the end of March next year over a mounting backlash against the company’s decision to destroy ancient…
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) has unveiled a revamped strategy to cut operational emissions by 30% by 2030 from this year’s levels, but it stopped short of tackling Scope 3…
Timothy Ray Sewell is no stranger to pandemics. In the early 2000s, he developed emergency management plans in Indonesia and Borneo for BHP Billiton during the H1N1 influenza pandemic and…
More than 1,800 people from over 80 countries tuned in to The Northern Miner’s first Global Mining Symposium last week. The three-day virtual event built on the success of our…
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