Mining companies are among big energy users bankrolling wind farms and other renewable energy projects to offset carbon emissions.
As the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, Energy and Exploration conference gets under way in Cairns, looking after heritage is high on the agenda.
Mining is more than playing its part in the economy's decarbonisation, according to a progress report issued by the Minerals Council of Australia.
The mining industry has warned the prime minister against taking the sector for granted and pushing investment elsewhere with "extreme" workplace laws.
Green groups have lashed the federal government and questioned its climate credentials after it approved its fourth coal project this year.
Imdex says while short-term conditions are subdued the tech firm continues positioning for stronger battery minerals demand requiring miners to dig deeper.
Fortescue Metals Group has booked a lower full-year profit after a writedown, slashed the final dividend and shocked investors with another new CEO.
Fortescue Metals Group has booked a lower full-year profit after a writedown, appointed a new CEO and added former CSIRO head Larry Marshall to the board.
Cabinet will meet in Western Australia as the prime minister looks to the state's booming resource sector and pushes ahead with his referendum campaign.
Government ministers are making their way to Western Australia for cabinet deliberations as the prime minister prepares to tour a mining port.
A Queensland court has ruled against a family claiming $5 million from Mount Isa Mines alleging a teenager suffers brain damage as a result of lead poisoning.
Pilbara Minerals reports a 326 per cent surge in net profit to $2.4 billion as the world rapidly electrifies and demands a secure supply of sustainable lithium.
BHP has been warned to "use or lose" its Queensland mining leases as the treasurer continues his stoush with miners over the government's royalties regime.
Profits and dividends are down at BHP on lower commodity prices, but the mining giant says it is managing inflationary pressures better than its rivals.
A nickel explorer has industrial giants from Japan queuing for future supplies from under the red dirt out west as the battery minerals race accelerates.
Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has been accused of making threats, intimidation and lying during a bitter family dispute over Lang Hancock's legacy.
Gina Rinehart allegedly tasked the forerunner to PricewaterhouseCoopers with a "special project" to undo her father's legacy at the expense of her children.
Gina Rinehart's father, mining pioneer Lang Hancock, wrote to his daughter in a bid to sever their ties amid a bitter dispute in the years before he died.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart says economic gains from regional communities should be returned to the area from which they were generated.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart committed fraud with iron ore mining tenements now worth billions of dollars, a lawyer for her two eldest children has told a court.
Australia is urged to be bold in the race for high-purity lithium for electric cars and clean energy, as veterans and newcomers jostle for capital and ports.
Gina Rinehart's lawyers have argued Lang Hancock's corporate breaches before he died extinguish a competing mining dynasty's claim for a stake in her riches.
Australia holds a third of the world's vanadium, an element that's key to a kind of battery that may be the answer to the long-term storage of energy.
Claims of dust and noise emissions have sparked a complaint about Queensland's Carmichael coalmine, but the allegations are denied.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart's lawyers have started their defence against claims by two prospectors for billion-dollar stakes in a lucrative iron ore project.
The native title owners of the site of a large iron ore mine in the WA Pilbara have outlined their case for compensation for spiritual and economic loss.
Fortescue Metals Group has pledged to continue to invest in green technologies as key investment decisions loom for billionaire Andrew Forrest and his board.
Demand for iron ore and coal may ebb but critical minerals can provide for future generations, unless labour laws and investor uncertainty mess it up, BHP says.
Billions of dollars in iron ore riches is being fought over in a Perth courtroom where the descendants of pioneering miners will air their competing claims.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart is set to battle it out in court with two of her children and her father's ex-business partners over a massive iron ore project.
BHP has posted a strong fourth quarter with annual production records at Western Australia iron ore, Olympic Dam and Spence, but warns of uncertain times.
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