Treasurer Jim Chalmers is watching the BHP-China iron ore pricing dispute, which is a wake-up call that the huge windfalls of ...

An Afghan government ministry is flatly denying a news report that a Chinese firm apparently got a contract for a big copper extraction project in Afghanistan after the agency took millions of dollars ...

The rise of the Iron Age —and the complete shift in the way the world worked that it caused—was likely an accident. And ...

The Albanese government is facing calls to step into an iron ore dispute between BHP and China, as the impasse threatens billions of dollars in Australian exports. High-ranking officials, including ...

Australia’s biggest miner continues to load iron ore onto bulk carriers bound for China, despite worries that Beijing has ordered an “unprecedented” export ban.

Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy. Research conducted at Cranfield University provides new insight into the shift from ...

Steel has underpinned modern life for centuries, but it comes at an expensive cost. The industry is responsible for nearly 7 ...

Look again at the famous Albanese/Trump selfie. That artificial smile from President Trump conveys a message that he doesn’t ...

“Microbes are the world’s oldest miners,” says Liz Dennett, founder and CEO of the start-up Endolith Mining, based near ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called on China to import Australian iron ore without ...