BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have signed a joint venture agreement for iron ore exploration across both companies’ Western Australian assets.
08/12/2009
BHP Billiton has announced it will invest $358 million in the acquisition of Canadian junior potash company, Athabasca Potash (API).
29/01/2010
BHP Billiton’s David Morgan has announced his resignation from his position as director.
25/11/2009
BOART Longyear has been awarded BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam ‘Vendor of the Year’ award for 2009.
05/11/2009
BLACKTHORN Resources has announced that its Joint Venture partner BHP Billiton has re-commenced drilling on the Mumbwa Project in Zambia for Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) style mineralisation.
24/04/2009
BHP Billiton has announced it has slashed up to 240 drilling and mining jobs from its nickel mine in Leinster, 360km north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
13/05/2009
BLACKTHORN Resources has welcomed the news that joint venture partner, BHP Billiton, has elected to fund the next stage of exploration at the Mumbwa iron oxide copper gold project in Zambia.
29/01/2010
BLACKTHORN Resources and BHP Billiton have announced positive indications of mineralisation on the Kitumba copper gold anomaly at their Mumbwa Joint Venture.
10/07/2009
MUMBWA joint venture partners Blackthorn Resources and BHP Billiton have announced results from drill hole ZMMUM-008 in Zambia.
30/09/2009
A JOINT venture between Gindalbie Metals and major Chinese steel and iron ore company Ansteel is the latest to break the total dominance of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in the Western Australian iron ore business.
09/12/2009
BLACKTHORN Resources has announced 8000 metres of cored drilling has been completed at their Mumbwa project in Zamibia.
06/08/2009
HIGHLANDS Pacific has announced its new exploration program at Nong River in Papua New Guinea nearby the Ok Tedi cooper-gold mine.
27/10/2009
BHP Billiton has announced that it plans to restrict coal exploration in the farming region at Caroona near Gunnedah.
15/08/2008
AMIRA has announced its plans to boost drilling and mining technologies with the development of a new specialised Cooperative Research Centre.
16/04/2009
BLACKTHORN Resources has reported some low-grade copper and gold drill results from the Mumbwa joint venture project in Zambia.
23/09/2009
Caterpillar Inc. and Claycrete Ltd. have entered a marking agreement to provide a roadway and pad construction solution to operators of mines and oil and gas sites as well as to owners and builders of roads.
14/02/2008
PILBARA explorer, Warwick Resources Limited (WRL) announced a significant new high grade iron ore discovery from RC drilling on its Woggaginna iron ore project.
13/02/2009
AUSTRALIA-BASED Otto Energy remains confident the farmout of Service Contract (SC) 55 drill project will push through even if the heads of agreement with BHP Billiton Petroleum (BHBP) had already lapsed.
07/04/2009
Industrial users across Australia's biggest mining region were hunting for alternative fuels after an explosion at an offshore gas plant knocked out more than a third of normal gas supplies.
06/06/2008
PILBARA explorer Warwick Resources today announced further high grade results from RC drilling on its Jimblebar Range iron ore project near Newman.
19/02/2009