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Mining

August 2026

  • A bulldozer loaded with rare earth moves among mounds at a mine in China

    The Guardian view on rare earths: it’s common sense to secure essential supply chains

  • Researchers in safety gear harvest leafy plants grown inside the Boulby Underground Laboratory mine tunnel

    Subterranean salad: underground farmers seek solution to food crisis in disused UK mines

  • BHP headquarters in Australia

    At least 109 BHP workers sexually harassed colleagues in a single year, mining company says

  • Jack Crabtree

    Other lives
    Jack Crabtree obituary

  • Australia’s largest aluminium smelter to run on renewables by 2033 after Rio Tinto strikes $2.5bn taxpayer bailout deal

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Peruvian cardinal hails $150m lead poisoning settlement for 1,300 people as a ‘historic milestone’

July 2026

  • A Caterpillar haul truck moves overburden at an open cut coal mine

    Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine

  • An iron ore mining truck

    Australia’s fuel tax break slowing BHP’s decarbonisation, mining giant’s investors warned

  • Manatees in water

    ‘Death sentence’: Trump administration to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining

  • iron ore mine in the Pilbara

    The BHP files
    Former top BHP economist urges tougher government policies to push miners to decarbonise

  • Coal is back in AustralianSuper’s portfolio. What happened to that net zero pledge?

  • Fears Queenslanders could be forced to pay for mine cleanup as LNP reviews environmental ‘red tape’

  • ‘It’s all a set-up’: the ‘fake’ Australian documentary TV series mining governments for millions

June 2026

  • Fortescue’s Christmas Creek iron ore mine. A class action includes allegations of ‘serious sexual assaults’. The miner says it’s ‘committed to providing a safe, respectful and inclusive workplace’.

    Fortescue class action: female workers claim sexual harassment at remote mine sites

    One woman says she found man in her room at WA fly-in, fly-out accommodation while another states she was ‘howled’ at, federal court told
  • Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki is seen talking to the media inside the budget lock-up before the handing down of the 2025-26 Queensland state budget at Queensland Parliament in Brisbane, Tuesday, June 23, 2026. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

    Queensland’s economy teeters on edge of ratings downgrade despite coal royalty windfall

    Earnings from mining the fossil fuel set to increase to $6.9bn over financial year, up from $4.8bn, with budget deficit to reach $6.2bn

    • Coal companies to reap billions more in taxpayer diesel subsidies as Labor approves new mining

    • ‘It’s Russian roulette’: alarm as Europe backs critical minerals mines in water-stressed regions

    • Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds

May 2026

  • Tim Day blamed BHP’s decarbonisation delay on obstacles to replacing the use of diesel due to what he said were slow advancements in electric trucking and rail technology.

    The BHP files
    BHP admits to stalled emissions reductions as WA premier says miners have ‘moral obligation’ to decarbonise

  • Anthony Albanese and Jerome Laxale

    The BHP files
    Rein in fossil fuel tax concessions, Labor MP says after BHP revelations

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