Mining
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Scott Morrison criticises West Australian proposal to increase tax on BHP and Rio TintoTreasurer says ‘taxing more is not the answer’ after Brendon Grylls pushes for tax of $5 per tonne on iron ore
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Garma festival: Indigenous leaders say Land Rights Act is not protecting themThe act is ‘fast asleep’ and it continues to be easy for others to claim a share of Aboriginal land, says Gumatj leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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Beauty companies and the struggle to source child labour-free micaNearly a decade after child labour in mica mining came to light, the beauty industry’s progress on cleaning up its supply chain for the glittery mineral has been slow and tricky
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Richard Budge obituaryBusinessman labelled ‘King Coal’ whose RJB Mining bought the bulk of the British coalmining industry in the 1990s
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Abbot Point coal terminal ownership still missing from Adani Ports' annual reportAdani Ports disowns $2bn port for third year in a row despite it being registered with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
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UK industrial decline not all Margaret Thatcher’s faultLetters: Industrial employment in Britain began to decline in the 1950s, and in the two decades before Thatcher came to power hundreds of thousands of such jobs were lost
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EU referendum makes gold miners and property oligarchs richerWhile sterling and shares in banks and housebuilders are taking a battering, others are doing rather well in vote aftermath
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Seven mining workers freed after being kidnapped in NigeriaTwo Nigerians and five foreign workers – three Australians, a New Zealander and a South African – are released four days after a deadly attack on their convoy
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Reserve Bank indicates rising Australian dollar could trigger interest rate cutMinutes of RBA monetary policy meeting warn dollar may complicate economy’s adjustment to end of mining boom
Senate calls on Coalition to rule out financing Adani's Carmichael coalmine