There is concern a stevedoring company at the Bell Bay port in northern Tasmania is considering laying off staff. A worker employed by Patrick has contacted the ABC with concerns the company wants to shed nine jobs and has asked people to put up their hands for voluntary

A shipment of iron ore being loaded. (ABC Local Radio: Nick-Bosly Pask) Map: Geraldton 6530 Under the agreement, Gindalbie Metals and Sinosteel Midwest will share onsite accommodation, air strips as well as rail and water infrastructure for projects east of Morawa. Gindalbie

ON SUNDAY St George will launch a $10 million advertising campaign, its first since it was taken over by Westpac about a year ago, aimed at neutralising some of the resentment among customers towards the big banks. But the dragon that was central to so many past campaigns has been

AAP Newcrest Mining Ltd has been given the green light for its $2 billion Cadia East project near Orange in New South Wales. Australia's biggest gold miner said its wholly-owned subsidiary Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd had on Friday received notice that planning approval had been granted for

Qantas has denied allegations of predatory pricing after independent regional carrier Rex announced it could no longer compete on the Mackay-Townsville route. Rex announced on Christmas Eve it would cease its new service between Mackay and Townsville on New Year's Day, exactly three months...

AAP South Australia's Treasurer Kevin Foley has given the green light for a new $130 million copper-gold mine to be built in the state. Mr Foley, who is Acting Premier while Mike Rann is in Copenhagen for a global climate summit, approved the Kanmantoo project, which will be operated...

Wednesday December 9, 2009, 1:20 pm BHP Billiton is selling its Ravensthorpe nickel operations, on Western Australia' s south coast, to a Canadian company. 1,800 people lost their jobs when low nickel prices forced BHP to shut down the $2-billion project in...

The local community is happy but ‘‘cautious’’ about BHP Billiton’s sale of its Ravensthorpe nickel operation to a Canadian-based miner, a councillor says. BHP said today had sold the troubled mine to First Quantum Minerals Australia for $376 million, with the sale to be fi

AAP Canada's First Quantum Minerals has declined to confirm reports it wants to buy BHP Billiton Ltd's mothballed Ravensthorpe nickel laterite mine near Esperance in Western Australia. "No comment," a spokeswoman at First Quantum's West Perth branch told AAP on Monday. First Quantum,...