New pressures are forcing a rethink of a model long-defined by scale and efficiency.

Gemco’s Forrestfield facility in Perth is producing the first 40 rail cars. Credit: Government of Western Australia. Metals and mining company Rio Tinto has announced the start of production of its ...

MELBOURNE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto is investing $518 million in driverless trains for its 1,500 kilometre (930 mile) Western Australian iron-ore rail network, increasing network capacity as the ...

A massive iron ore deposit in Western Australia's Hamersley region has turned heads-55 billion metric tons, valued at $5.7 trillion. It's the biggest find ever, rewriting what geologists thought about ...

A recent discovery of a 55 billion metric ton iron ore reserve in Western Australia's Hamersley region, valued at US $6 trillion, is expected to significantly impact global iron ore markets and prices ...

An abundance of high-quality iron ore and the recent discovery of a 55 billion metric ton reserve have pushed Western Australia into the top spot as the world’s leading iron ore supplier. China, the ...

WHYALLA, Australia - For more than a century, Australia has fed the world’s hunger for iron ore. Vast swaths of the rusty red Outback have been dug up and delivered overseas to make the steel that ...

Western Range has the capacity to produce up to 25-million tonnes of iron-ore a year and could sustain the existing Paraburdoo mining hub for up to 20 years. The project includes construction of a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Treadgold is an Australian journalist specializing in mining Australia and China are edging closer to a re-run of their 2020 ...