Central Baotou, an industrial hub of 2.7 million people that abuts the Gobi desert in north China, feels just like any other second-tier Chinese city. Large shopping malls featuring western […]
Read More‘A timebomb’: could a French mine full of waste poison the drinking water of millions?
Eight police officers linger with their backs to the two-hectare (five-acre) site known as Stocamine. The place is nondescript in the morning drizzle: two mine shafts, some modern-looking office buildings, […]
Read MoreChina has a stranglehold on the world’s rare-earths supply chain. Can Australia break it?
Weeks after China retaliated against Donald Trump’s tariffs by suspending exports of a range of rare-earth elements and related high-powered magnets, Ford was forced to pause a production line in […]
Read More‘Scratch the earth, there’s gold!’: Small miners, big firms and armed gangs fight over Peru’s mineral wealth
Deep in the mountains of northern Peru, a bloody war is being fought over gold. As its international price sets successive record highs above $3,000 (£2,220) an ounce, criminal gangs, […]
Read MoreDemand for copper to dramatically outstrip supply within decade
Demand for copper, needed for the transition to a low-carbon world, will outstrip supply within the next decade, according to the global energy watchdog. Supplies of the metal, a key […]
Read MoreTravels in the Pilbara, the land of ‘Aunty Gina’ – in pictures
Standing looking at the ramshackle old buildings and stockyards on the vast and isolated Mulga Downs station where Gina Rinehart grew up felt a little surreal as the same day […]
Read MoreCobalt firm taps in to electric car boom with £174m London stock market float
A cobalt trading company has said it will raise £174m in rare a stock market float in London, in a bet on demand for car batteries that defies investor nerves […]
Read MoreGina: Mythmaking – episode 6 – podcast
Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise Hancock started his mining career on a smaller scale […]
Read MoreGina episode 6: Mythmaking – podcast
Gina Rinehart’s father Lang Hancock is well known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise Hancock started his mining career on a smaller scale […]
Read MoreThank you for letting us make you rich: claims of ‘bizarre’ culture in Gina Rinehart’s company
Insiders at Australia’s biggest private company – Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting – have lifted the veil on what they describe as a “bizarre” culture within the organisation that includes annual […]
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