Mining (Rural)

The state's resource-rich Goldfields region has been swept up in the global push to renewable energy, with billions in mining investment driving the development of six wind farms.

Whitehaven Coal's Winchester South coal mine in central Queensland's Bowen Basin plans to extract up to 17 million tonnes of coal a year for about 30 years.

The closure of the Russell Vale mine in Wollongong prompts calls for miners to be given better re-employment options.

Nickel prices have plummeted in recent months due to a glut in the market, but some analysts say it's part of the "boom and bust" nature of the industry.

Australian mining company Tivan shares its plans to mine fluorite in the Kimberley in an announcement to the ASX, following the material's recent addition to the national critical minerals list.

It is the latest in a run of negative news for the critical minerals sector in Western Australia as an analysts warns reduced production at the lithium mine is a bad sign for smaller producers.

Living just six kilometres from one of the world's largest bulk export ports in Western Australia, Roger Higgins is used to a bit of dust. But he says recent levels are the worst he has seen in his 12 years in the town.

The employer of a fly-in fly-out worker found two days after crashing his work vehicle in remote Western Australia says the utility was due to have a tracking device installed next week.

WA police confirm 33-year-old fly-in-fly-out worker Ambrose Walton, missing in the Pilbara region since Tuesday, has been found dead after his vehicle crashed near an unsealed access road.

Plummeting critical mineral prices have pushed WA's major industry players to mothball their mines, workers to lose jobs and the government to all but panic. What's the fallout and what comes next?

Nickel miners could pay less to mine in WA, as the government holds crisis talks with the resources industry as mines shut and hundreds of jobs are lost.

Ambrose Walton, described as having a strong Canadian accent, was last seen near Tom Price on Tuesday and never turned up to meet a friend in Karratha.

If the Upper Calliope Solar Farm in central Queensland is approved, mining giant Rio Tinto will use the electricity generated to power its operations in Gladstone. But some locals want more detail about the project.

More than 250 mining jobs are set to be affected by the closure of another operation in WA's once-booming nickel industry as prices slump.

US lithium giant Albemarle has announced it will cut jobs and scale back an expansion of its refinery WA's South West amid a downturn in the sector.

Hopetoun locals brace for the impact of another wave of job losses, after First Quantum Minerals moves to suspend activities at its Ravensthorpe nickel operation on the state's south coast.

A 27-year-old coal mine worker has died at the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance's Saraji mine following a vehicle-related incident. 

The outback company helped with the war effort in the 1940s, established a vital railway and fostered a rural multicultural melting pot while transforming the industry with constant innovation.

Luke O'Brien from Mackay suffered multiple critical injuries. Investigations are underway and operations at the Bowen Basin site have been suspended.

The owner of the Ravensthorpe nickel operation on WA's south coast says it will suspend mining and cut 30 per cent of its 420-strong workforce. 

Hollywood depicts it as miners brandishing rifles and bulldozers clashing amid exploding outhouses, but locals say that version has taken poetic licence. Here's what really happened during the 1970s, when interest in Australia's gems exploded.

Newmont's Telfer gold mine is forced to suspend processing after "cracking and seeping" is detected at a tailings dam, about 200 kilometres east of Marble Bar.

Panoramic Resources plans to axe 140 on-site jobs as it winds up the Savannah nickel mine in Western Australia, with the price of the base metal falling by more than 44 per cent in the past year.

As US mining giant Alcoa says it will close its refinery in Kwinana in Perth's south, an expert warns the hit to Western Australia's economy will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The US mining giant says the Kwinana refinery has become too costly to run and will be shut down over the next two years.