Mining and Metals Industry

Albemarle will sack four of its eight apprentices at its Kemerton Lithium Refinery in WA's South West because of challenging market conditions.

Premier Roger Cook says its rescue package recognises the thousands of jobs hanging in the balance, but a mining analyst says "it really doesn't touch the sides" amid an oversupply of lithium and disappointing electric vehicle sales.

Tyler Mahoney likes to call herself a "professional gold digger" — but that doesn't mean what you think it means. 

When a mining company also owns your house, the local shopping centre and the GP clinic, what does it mean when it sells its assets?

Efforts have been made to smooth tensions between junior miner Hastings Technology Metals and Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals over the financing of the Yangibana rare earths and niobium mine in WA.

American authorities have charged Indian billionaire Gautam Adani over his role in an alleged multi-billion-dollar scheme of bribery and fraud.   

From a shy school dropout to one of India's richest and most influential people, Gautam Adani has now been accused of bribery by US prosecutors.

In a statement, the mining company confirmed "all three employees are safe and well and have departed the country".

An emotional Chris Ellison speaks of how an investigation into a major corporate governance scandal gripping the mining company he founded almost 20 years ago is a "dark cloud over [his] life" and is something he will "live with forever".

A lawyer for the miners sheltering inside an abandoned goldmine says they are suffering from a lack of food, with police poised to arrest them when they surface.

While half of the mining-giant's employees think its culture is improving, bullying against female staff is up since 2022 in an internal progress report published today.

John Russell had a vision to mechanise a dangerous and expensive job that costs mines up to $500,000 an hour, and now the federal government will invest in the company he founded thanks to the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation.

Residents living near a Bendigo gold mine say the company's activities have already caused damaging earthquakes in the region.

The company says it will use some of the funds to fix the Whyalla steelwork's blast furnace which has been offline since August.

In a bid to free three of its executives who have been detained in Mali over a tax dispute, Resolute Mining agrees to pay $US160 million ($242 million) to the African country's government.

A caravan park owner called police when two geologists, who regularly stayed at her park, didn't return from a day out prospecting. She's described them as friendly, conscientious and dedicated to their work.

The Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor has laid charges over the deaths of Dylan Langridge and Trevor Davis at an underground zinc mine in Queensland.

Albemarle has revealed it lost more than $1 billion last quarter and its failed Kemerton expansion project is largely to blame. Analysts say it could forecast an end to lithium hydroxide processing in WA.

The NSW government is introducing legislation to expand laws that stop protesters blocking roads, bridges and ports in NSW to include railway lines. The laws would carry a maximum fine of $22,000.

The NSW government is seeking to give the planning secretary discretionary powers, but lawyers and a Landcare group say that would have devastating impacts for the community.