Rio blast threatens Pilbara Indigenous heritage – again

Rio blast threatens Pilbara Indigenous heritage – again

Rio Tinto has apologised after iron ore blasting may have damaged a registered cultural heritage site,three years after the global Juukan Gorge scandal.

  • byPeter Milne

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Andrew Forrest’s FMG loses CFO just three months into job
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Mining

Andrew Forrest’s FMG loses CFO just three months into job

The announcement comes just four days after the shock exit of the miner’s chief executive Fiona Hick.

  • byHamish Hastie andPeter Milne
Disagreement on green agenda behind shock CEO exit:Forrest

Disagreement on green agenda behind shock CEO exit:Forrest

Andrew Forrest says given the scale of its green ambitions,Fortescue will inevitably lose senior executives but needs to “fail fast” and move on.

  • byPeter Milne
Why iron ore remains so resilient despite China’s property woes

Why iron ore remains so resilient despite China’s property woes

The one commodity that should be getting hammered by China’s worsening property crisis is actually doing rather well. That’s good news for Australia.

China’s property headaches to take a toll on Australia’s heavyweight miners

China’s property headaches to take a toll on Australia’s heavyweight miners

Softening global demand for steel,thanks to the ongoing turbulence in China’s property sector,is bad news for Australia’s largest export - iron ore.

  • bySimon Johanson
Lang Hancock accused Gina Rinehart of trying to have Rose Porteous deported,court told
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Courts

Lang Hancock accused Gina Rinehart of trying to have Rose Porteous deported,court told

Mining pioneer Lang Hancock threatened to remove his daughter from the empire for “disloyalty” over her alleged behaviour towards his new wife,the court heard.

  • byJesinta Burton
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Lang Hancock’s last-days epiphany laid bare in battle for billions

Lang Hancock’s last-days epiphany laid bare in battle for billions

Faced with leaving a bankrupt estate,magnate Lang Hancock spent his final days trying to reverse moves to fund possessions for wife Rose Porteous,the court was told.

  • byJesinta Burton
Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter

Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting savages Lang’s ‘bombshell’ letter

Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer rubbished his opponents’ characterisation of Lang Hancock’s letter to his daughter,insisting it was of “peripheral relevance”.

  • byJesinta Burton
Yindjibarndi seek $500m compensation from Fortescue for mining their land

Yindjibarndi seek $500m compensation from Fortescue for mining their land

The Yindjibarndi people of WA’s Pilbara region are seeking $500 million from Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue for mining the land they have exclusive native title over without their agreement,the Federal Court has heard.

  • byPeter Milne
Pay-up time looms for Fortescue in native title fight

Pay-up time looms for Fortescue in native title fight

Fifteen years since negotiations started,the final stage of the Yindjibarndi People’s fight with Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue begins in the small Pilbara town of Roebourne on Monday.

  • byPeter Milne
‘Idiot John’:Emails lay bare early days of Rinehart children’s failed coup

‘Idiot John’:Emails lay bare early days of Rinehart children’s failed coup

The WA Supreme Court was read a string of emails exchanged as Gina Rinehart’s son John Hancock attempted to rally the support of his siblings to remove their mother as head of a family trust.

  • byJesinta Burton