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Rio Tinto, Hancock Invest $1.6 Billion In Hope Downs 2 Expansion

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and Hancock Prospecting have announced on Tuesday a joint investment of $1.61 billion to develop the Hope Downs 2 iron ore project in Western Australia's Pilbara region. A 50-50 investment will drive a significant expansion of the long-standing Hope Downs Joint Venture between the two companies.

Benzinga

Rio Tinto, Hancock to develop $2.5b iron ore project

A joint venture between Rio Tinto and Hancock Prospecting has been given approval for an iron ore project to add 31 million tonnes to global supply each year.

AAP

Ocean heatwave likely killed 30,000 fish off Western Australia coast, government says

Environmentalists fear overheated water could bleach Ningaloo Reef as woman says swimming at local beach like taking ‘hot’ shower

The Guardian - AU

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Wild NSW weather expected to ease as WA’s Pilbara region braces for cyclone

Cleanup continues in parts of NSW as tropical low threatens heavy rain between Port Hedland and Ningaloo

The Guardian - AU

Scorching WA heatwave spreads east across country

A heatwave is poised to spread eastward across the country after scorching parts of Western Australia with maximum temperatures approaching 50C.

AAP

Bushfire threats downgraded but WA counts the cost

An out-of-control blaze in Western Australia's southwest is no longer threatening lives and homes, but more than 70 fires still burn across the state.

AAP

Traditional owners left to ‘pick up the pieces’ after sacred rock shelter damaged in Rio Tinto blast

Full extent of incident near Nammuldi iron ore mine in the Pilbara still unknown, Muntulgura Guruma representative says

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Woodside vows to 'learn' from worker's death on gas platform, as investigations into cause continue

A Woodside executive says it's too early to say exactly what led to the death of a worker on a gas platform off WA's coast but promised the company will "learn" and "change" to ensure it does not happen again.

ABC News

Sweet As: Jub Clerc's film about misfit teens on a Pilbara road trip dares to choose optimism over angst

Sweet As was inspired by writer-director Jub Clerc's experiences as a teen, growing up between the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia during the 80s.

ABC News

FIFO worker Ryan Zabaznow denies sexually assaulting 'comatose' woman at BHP mine

A fly-in fly-out worker is on trial in WA's District Court accused of sexually assaulting a colleague at a remote mine site in the state's Pilbara region.

ABC News

As Margaret Hawke is sentenced, Port Hedland locals want mining profits spent on community aid

Margaret Hawke will learn of her punishment today for the murder of her three children, just hours after seeking support, in a tragedy prompting calls for more mining revenue to be channelled back into the Port Hedland community.

ABC News

Police commissioner defends seizure of Pilbara journalist's memory card in connection with Woodside protest

Karratha journalist Eliza Kloser says she was repeatedly stopped by police on the same day her home was searched in connection to her colleague and housemate's involvement with protests at Woodside's AGM.

ABC News

Emissions from WA gas project with world’s largest industrial carbon capture system rise by more than 50%

Chevron development off Pilbara coast was approved on condition the company store about 4m tonnes of CO2 a year

The Guardian - AU

Tropical Cyclone Ilsa leaves Pilbara station owners picking up the pieces

Pastoralists across Western Australia's Pilbara region are facing a mammoth clean-up in the wake of severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa.

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Pardoo Roadhouse bears brunt of Ilsa on WA's Kimberley-Pilbara coast, with the severe tropical cyclone now downgraded

One of the owners of Pardoo Roadhouse in Western Australia's Pilbara says his business has been "wiped out" by the now former tropical cyclone Ilsa, after the category five system barrelled over the region in the early hours of Friday morning, before heading inland and deteriorating to a tropical low…

Daily Mirror

Cyclone Ilsa: Western Australia braces for most powerful storm in 12 years to batter coast

Cyclone Isla is sweeping across the Indian Ocean with wind speeds of almost 200 mph and is expected to continue its destructive level as it hits Australia's west coast

ABC News

With Tropical Cyclone Ilsa set to rip through Pilbara at strength, inland communities could face unprecedented risk

Inland Pilbara communities could be heading into uncharted territory with Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa looking set to rip through the region at sustained strength.

The Independent UK

Category 4 Cyclone Ilsa lashes northwest Australian coast

A severe tropical cyclone is lashing the northwest Australian coast with strengthening winds and increasing rain

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa set to make landfall tonight as WA's Kimberley, Pilbara brace for damaging winds, rain

Communities along Western Australia's Kimberley and Pilbara coasts are preparing for destructive winds and heavy rain, with Tropical Cyclone Ilsa predicted to make landfall later tonight or early tomorrow morning as a category-four system.

The Independent UK

Residents flee as cyclone approaches northwest Australia

Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals are evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast as an intensifying tropical cyclone approaches

ABC News

Ports cleared, extra services dispatched as Pilbara and Kimberley brace for Cyclone Ilsa

Extra emergency personnel are en route to Port Hedland, Broome and Karratha, as Tropical Cyclone Ilsa is set to become the first category four cyclone to hit WA's north-west coast in a decade.

The New Daily

Western Australia faces prospect of another cyclone barreling down on the northwest

Pilbara and Kimberley regions are looking anxiously out to sea as a strengthening low-pressure system suggests a cyclone is on the way

ABC News

Antarctic Ice Marathon runner Glenn Rush swaps Pilbara heat for freezing temperatures

Pilbara resident Glenn Rush swaps sweat for snow alongside 140 other chill-seekers in a 42-kilometre marathon across Antarctica.

ABC News

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer rakes in more than $700 million from Pilbara assets

Of $730.9 million in revenue, about $520 million was collected in royalties, according to Mineralogy's latest financial report, with a lot of it coming from a Pilbara mine.

ABC News

BHP mines identified as 'dominant source' of dust in Newman, says government review

Residents of a Pilbara mining town say better research needs to be done to measure the health impacts of dust generated by the industry around them.

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