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Australia's materials sector weighed on the bourse on reports of a trade stoush between China's iron ore buyer and BHP, while gold surged to a fresh record.

Reports China is halting iron ore shipments from BHP have weighed on the world's biggest miner, but experts say any stoush over prices should be short-lived.

Australia’s inability to close top MA deals is becoming a growing frustration. The collapse of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC) $18.7 billion takeover bid for Santos (OTCPK: SSLZY) (the nation’s biggest supplier of natural gas) earlier this month is just the latest example. Valuation disputes, regulatory hurdles, and unexpected…

Findings show ‘zombie mines’ often restarted during coal price spikes and mothballed as prices return to normal levels

Australian shares have started the week on the right foot but handed back some early gains as lumbering financials and real estate stocks capped the upside.

Rising wages and costs of having to dig deeper for minerals – not royalty payments – are behind job cuts in a sector that appears to be in decline

Jarrod Bleijie defends levy as BHP Mitsubishi Alliance moves to mothball Saraji South mine and slash 750 jobs

A mining giant has been labelled "un-Australian" by a state government for cutting hundreds of jobs and mothballing one of its oldest sites.

The proposed $53bn merger looks logical in its own terms but it is far from being a done deal

The tie-up is set to be the biggest mining sector merger in over a decade.

BHP and Rio Tinto want to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America, if they can get a hoped-for transfer of federal forest land in Arizona.