Industry Minister Tim Ayres has signalled any future bailouts will likely require 50-50 funding splits between state and ...

If the ALP insists on underwriting fading relics, it risks not just burning more taxpayer cash but consuming Australia’s ...

Glencore has admitted its Mount Isa copper smelter could be shut down before the end of next year, even after securing a ...

A potential deal to avert closure would mark the government’s fourth intervention to rescue a metals plant this year.

Rio Tinto is preparing to make a final call on the future of the Tomago aluminium smelter and its more than a thousand workers which could be out of a job by 2028.

The funds follow an eight-month negotiation over Glencore’s request for financial support to keep its operations running amid ...

The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was supposed to be a launchpad for ambitious projects to help America lead the way on cleaner power and manufacturing. Now it’s been reduced to a shell of ...

Eskom has been asked to provide at least 1,000 MW of coal-fired electricity to a new Chinese-owned ferrochrome smelter, raising renewed concern about the sustainability of the government’s water- and ...

Liberal MP Alex Hawke discusses how the federal government is bailing out Glencore's Mount Isa copper smelter.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX.N) is close to reaching a $2.8 billion deal with China's Tsingshan Holding Group to build a copper smelter in Indonesia's Weda Bay, senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on ...

A group of Indonesian state-owned companies will form a venture to make batteries to power electric vehicles, the Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) chief executive said on Tuesday.

Century Aluminum said it signed an extension of its power agreement with Santee Cooper to secure a stable power supply for its Mt. Holly smelter in South Carolina through 2031.