Hundreds of locals have rallied against a proposed silver and lead mine in central west New South Wales (NSW) as they consider whether to legally challenge the open-cut project’s approval. Bowdens Silver Project, about 2 km outside the village of Lue, was given conditional approval earlier this month to operate until 2046. About 200 locals…

The corporate watchdog has launched legal action over alleged price fixing and tender bid rigging for entertainment services at Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group mine sites. Technology company Swift is accused of making agreements with a competitor to fix technology infrastructure prices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says. The tenders in 2019…

Australia’s richest person has warned that net-zero will “crumble to unachievable” without a strong and healthy mining industry. Gina Rinehart, who holds a $34 billion mining-based fortune and has topped the Australian Financial Review Rich List for three consecutive years, said electricity touches “pretty well everything we daily need”, and mining will be essential for making solar…

An inquiry into Western Australia’s fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) mining sector has unveiled a “staggering” range of sexual abuse and harassment against female workers. The WA government released a report on Thursday that said sexual assault has been “generally accepted or overlooked” in the FIFO mining sector, with women’s rights undermined by “the abuse of positions of power” and “the…

The nationwide skill shortage in Australia has made Western Australia’s (WA) potential of “poaching” east coast skilled workers more difficult. A survey conducted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA (CCIWA) revealed a bidding war has started in the country to secure Australian workers. Over half of businesses across almost every sector reported having…