Rio Tinto has apologised after iron ore blasting may have damaged a registered cultural heritage site,three years after the global Juukan Gorge scandal.
The announcement comes just four days after the shock exit of the miner’s chief executive Fiona Hick.
Andrew Forrest says given the scale of its green ambitions,Fortescue will inevitably lose senior executives but needs to “fail fast” and move on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hancock Prospecting’s lawyer rubbished his opponents’ characterisation of Lang Hancock’s letter to his daughter,insisting it was of “peripheral relevance”.
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.
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.
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.