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Hancock Iron Ore received the Australian Mining Prospect Awards Excellence in Mine Safety, OH&S award last year in recognition of its highly successful initiative, Brilliant at the Basics (B@TB)

Gas producers in Victoria say the government should act to streamline gas project approvals before considering plans for underwriting LNG import terminals.

Australia’s electricity system faces inevitable “significant outages” during multi-city heatwaves as renewables fail to meet demand, warns key energy policy architect.

Last week, a new report by the Institute for Economic Affairs argued that the cost of transitioning to net zero could be billions – even trillions – more than some government forecasts.

Hancock Iron Ore is transforming rail safety and maintenance with its AI-powered TrackDefectX defect-detection system.

Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates.

Almost 100 employees of Iluka Resources were made redundant in December, with the wave of white and blue-collar job cuts linked to a mine suspension near Perth announced three months ago.

Reflect. Respect. Celebrate. in the city at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Australia Day.

BIG MINERS SHUNNING AUSTRALIA FOR MORE STABLE ARGENTINA

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by

Regular readers of this column with a critical interest in the renewables transition – differentiated from those who are blinkered true believers – will know that the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is the Achilles heel of the Albanese Government’s strategy.

Rio Tinto has agreed to keep open its troubled Tomago aluminium smelter in return for a Commonwealth-led deal that will provide it with billions of dollars in subsidised power from the Snowy Hydro project and other renewables sources, all firmed by gas.