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Atlas restarts Mt Webber

Mining has restarted at Atlas Iron's Mt Webber operation, with processing to resume in the next two weeks.

02 July 2015

NT summons surprises Krucible

Krucible was surprised by a summons from the NT government regarding drilling at its Tobermorey project.

26 June 2015

West Angelas expansion gets the nod

Rio Tinto has secured conditional approval of its West Angelas iron ore expansion in the Pilbara.

23 June 2015

Olympic Dam back on track

The Svedala mill at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper mine has restarted.

22 June 2015

Mining rebound expected

The Australian mining industry is set to rebound in 2015-16 by about 8.6% to reach $230 billion in revenue.

17 June 2015

Tasmania encourages Avebury restart

The Tasmanian government announced $A3.5 million to encourage the reopening of the Avebury nickel mine.

15 June 2015

Arrium restructures to keep mining

Arrium has outlined poor results and a cost reduction plan to keep its South Australian iron ore operations

15 June 2015

Price pain

Amid all the doom and gloom iron ore has fallen back to genuine, bonafide, 2008 prices.

12 June 2015

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