Iron Ore

BlueScope, Rio Tinto and BHP say Australia needs a commercially viable alternative to blast furnace steelmaking, but securing enough gas and green hydrogen will be a challenge.

The sudden evaporation of hype and hot air in the energy transition industry may leave many who plunged into critical minerals in a critical condition, writes business editor Ian Verrender.

Normal railway operations for Andrew Forest's Fortescue Metals Group are expected to be up and running again on Wednesday after an incident on the line between Newman and Port Hedland on Saturday suspended operations.

Australia's iron ore industry goes hand-in-hand with China. But it is a South Korean company looking to stump up billions of dollars for this green iron facility. 

The dust has barely settled after Australia and China reached an uneasy truce, but our abundance of critical minerals and China's stranglehold on them has us in the middle of a geopolitical tug of war between America and the Middle Kingdom, writes Ian Verrender.

John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart appear in WA's Supreme Court together for the second day as they continue their very public legal feud with their mother over mining royalties they claim their grandfather left for them.

Australia's leading iron ore miners are starting to diverge on their views about future demand for the commodity that's vital to our economy, and it's showing up in their investment decisions.

Australia's biggest trading partner is facing its biggest economic slowdown in decades, and the Reserve Bank has warned that stress in China's economy will be felt across the world — including here in Australia.

Mining is a famously male-dominated industry, but a group of women on a remote site in WA's north say that is changing. 

Mining giant Rio Tinto says it has apologised to traditional owners after a blast at one of its operations in WA's Pilbara caused damage to an ancient heritage site. 

Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group loses another of its top executives, as former Reserve Bank deputy governor Guy Debelle quits after 18 months at the company.

Billionaire miner Gina Rinehart threatened her son John Hancock when he tried to find out about what had happened to his inheritance, the WA Supreme Court is told, at a time when he was so hard up for cash he couldn't even afford new brake pads for his car.

An explosive memo written by Gina Rinehart, allegedly part of a "special project" to deflate the value of Hancock Prospecting shares, has been presented to the Supreme Court as part of a huge civil trial in Perth. 

Mining pioneer Lang Hancock's daughter Gina Rinehart ignored an agreement with her father that would have given her children a 49 per cent of his mining assets, WA's Supreme Court hears.

Lawyers for two of mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's children ask the Supreme Court why their mother will not front court to answer key questions in a case over billions of dollars in Pilbara iron ore mines.

Gina Rinehart's lawyers have sensationally accused her own late father of siphoning money to himself under pressure from his then-wife Rose Porteous to fund a "luxurious lifestyle".

Despite years of trade surpluses and a budget surplus to boot, the Australian dollar is on the slide once more — and it's all thanks to commodities and interest rates, writes business editor Ian Verrender.

Lawyers for billionaire Gina Rinehart seek to demolish a claim by a former business partner of her father Lang Hancock to a share of the jewel in her lucrative iron ore empire.

Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm says he is "cautiously optimistic" Chinese authorities will boost the country's ailing economy despite uncertainty about Beijing's plans.

The business partnership between Lang Hancock and Peter Wright created billions – but the fractured relationship between the men's heirs is now playing out in the WA Supreme Court.

The claim the mining magnate knew her company's Hope Downs mines were part of a joint partnership are central to a high-profile dispute over unpaid royalties playing out in court.

The descendants of late mining magnate Peter Wright claim they are entitled to a bigger share of iron ore royalties based on an agreement struck with Lang Hancock in the 1970s, the WA Supreme Court hears. 

The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation has fought for years for compensation from iron ore mines in the Pilbara, but may soon be producing renewable energy to sell to those same companies.

A boom in the value of Australia's resources exports is coming to an end amid forecasts that earnings from iron ore, coal, and gas will fall.

Iron ore miner Fenix Resources is expanding to become a bulk commodity logistics operator for other resources, including lithium, by purchasing WA mine, port and rail infrastructure.