BHP-owned Oz Minerals has agreed to pay $9.3 million in fines after self-reporting employees bribed foreign officials to obtain mining rights in Cambodia.
Mining giant BHP has revealed nearly 30,000 current and former staff have lost leave and pay entitlements over the past 13 years in one of Australia's largest case of employee underpayment.
BHP has laid out plans to bring together the copper assets it bought from OZ Minerals with its existing mines to boost Australia's share of the global market.
The pipeline of big resources projects in WA increasingly features complex processing plants, despite a spate of large cost blowouts on projects currently under way.
Design and construction firm Kerman Contracting has won a $90 million contract from OZ Minerals to fit out the miner's West Musgrave accommodation village.
BHP's $9.6 billion planned acquisition of Oz Minerals is one step closer after it received clearance from Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defence.
Australian miner OZ Minerals has produced a record amount of copper in the December quarter to meet its 2022 guidance but is bracing for higher electricity costs.
With a positive mining study Coda Minerals has unveiled a viable pathway to steady-state production of 2.5 million tonnes per annum at the company's Elizabeth Creek copper project in South Australia. The mining assessment forms part of a broader scoping study and is centred around underground mining of the project's cornerstone Emmie Bluff copper-cobalt deposit whilst also proposing open pit extraction at satellite deposits to rapidly achieve nameplate production.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss ABN, commercial builders, Perth City Deal, ACCIONA, Alcoa, BHP, OZ Minerals, startup funding, Betts Group and Wilson Parking.
Senior editor Mark Beyer discusses this year's changes to Data & Insights' accountants list and highlights some of the biggest issues affecting the sector.
Business News has updated its listing of WA's biggest resources projects to incorporate a spate of new developments and analysed which projects are next.
OZ Minerals has pushed the button on the project despite a $600 million capital increase, proclaiming the asset's enormous potential as a modern mine in an era of decarbonisation.
The shortage of workers in the resources and infrastructure sectors will peak at 84,000 in two years' time and would be worse if not for project cancellations, Pit Crew has found.
BHP shareholders will receive a big payout after underlying profits soared during the financial year, though the mining major has braced for more inflationary pressures and expansion costs.
OZ Minerals will have 18 months to assess Havilah Resource's Kalkaroo project before deciding whether to acquire the South Australian copper outfit for up to $405 million.
The EPA has recommended approval of OZ Mineral's proposal to mine nickel and copper in WA's Musgrave Ranges in what could be a first for the region if fully approved.
St George Mining is off to a flying start in its copper-gold search in the “world-class” Paterson region of Western Australia with multiple holes from its maiden drilling campaign at its Paterson prospect hitting prospective basement rocks. Initial XRF analysis has returned elevated levels of pathfinder elements suggesting potential for base metal and gold mineralisation across 35km of target stratigraphy at the company's tenure.
The state's peak environmental body will assess the social and environmental impacts of Oz Minerals' $1 billion nickel project in the West Musgrave Ranges.
Adelaide's OZ Minerals has upgraded the value of its recently acquired West Musgrave project in WA by $200 million, while also lifting the mine's planned nickel and copper production.
Veris subsidiary Aqura Technologies has signed $2.2 million in contracts including with BHP, which will use the company's communications service across its Pilbara mine sites.
OZ Minerals is set to gain full control of the West Musgrave nickel-copper asset in Western Australia after announcing a friendly takeover of project partner Cassini Resources.
Veris's technology and communications business has secured new work with BHP and Oz Minerals, as well as a contract with Cubic Defence Australia, totalling $4.3 million.
Oz Minerals and Cassini Resources believe their West Musgrave nickel-copper project in Western Australia can be a long-term, low-cost operation, following completion of a pre-feasibility study that found the mine's development cost would be about $995 million.
Civil and mining contractor MACA has secured another contract with First Quantum Minerals, worth $20 million, and further contracts with VicRoads totalling $19.5 million, while also announcing the closure of its Brazil operations.
GR Engineering Services has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a wellfield at OZ Minerals' Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia.
