Amid threats to drinking water supply, Pittsburgh's Alcoa faces new resistance in Australia, where it built a metals empire ...

Mine sites in regional and remote parts of Western Australia could be fully powered by renewable energy within the next few years, Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers found. Western Australia ...

Mining in Western Australia, a multi-billion dollar industry which helps power the nation’s economy, is plagued by an “abhorrent and systemic” culture of sexual abuse, according to a ...

In March 2024, South African mining company Gold Fields approved a landmark renewables project at the St Ives mine near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia (WA). The initiative – Gold Fields ...

In yet another tragic confirmation of the unsafe conditions in Australia’s mining sector, two workers were killed in Western Australian (WA) gold mines over a three-day period last week.

Unsolicited nude photos, innuendo, and assaults. These are all experiences of women in Western Australia's mining industry, as told to a state parliament inquiry. Its report was handed down ...

A conservation group in the Kimberley is calling for six oil and gas exploration licences released this month by the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) to be withdrawn. The ...

"In France, I was on a treadmill and needed a change," said 25-year-old Mathieu from France (first name changed), who spent six months working in a mine in Western Australia. "When I came across ...