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afr.com - Brittney Levinson - 'Drill, baby, drill': Mining industry wants 'archaic' policy changed
'Drill, baby, drill': Mining industry wants 'archaic' policy changed
Australian Financial Review

The Crisafulli government has been accused of sending mixed messages to the mining industry and stifling investment as it faces calls to review a key policy developed under the Palaszczuk government in 2019. North West Phosphate managing director…

bloomberg.com - War Squeezes Global Mining as Diesel and Acid Supplies Tighten
War Squeezes Global Mining as Diesel and Acid Supplies Tighten
Bloomberg

From the Australian outback to Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the global mining industry is beginning to feel the effects of disruption caused by the war in Iran. War-driven snarl-ups are starting to ripple through supply chains…

scmp.com - Sylvia Ma - 'Paradigm shift': is China's deal with mining giant BHP a global yuan milestone?
'Paradigm shift': is China's deal with mining giant BHP a global yuan milestone?
South China Morning Post

Australian mining giant BHP's decision to adopt a yuan-denominated index for a major Chinese buyer poses a challenge to the US dollar's long-standing dominance in iron ore pricing, delivering a hard-won victory for Beijing, analysts said. But while…

cnn.com - Lucia Isman - Trump orders Navy to 'shoot and kill' boats laying mines in Strait of Hormuz
Trump orders Navy to 'shoot and kill' boats laying mines in Strait of Hormuz
CNN

'It's extremely hard for Iranians to decipher what the next move of the president is,' Iran expert Sina Azodi tells CNN's Becky Anderson after Trump's latest maritime threat.

bbc.co.uk - Rorey Bosotti - US boards ship carrying Iran oil as Trump threatens mine-laying boats
US boards ship carrying Iran oil as Trump threatens mine-laying boats
BBC

The US says its forces have boarded a sanctioned ship carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean in the country's latest naval move against Iran. The US Department of Defence (DoD) said in a statement it had carried out a 'maritime interdiction' -…

abc.net.au - Lani Oataway - Gold-mining giant releases details of earthquake recovery schedule
Gold-mining giant releases details of earthquake recovery schedule
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

One of the country's largest gold mines expects to reopen its underground facility in five weeks after an earthquake rattled the New South Wales Central West. Below ground operations at Newmont's Cadia site have been suspended since a magnitude-4.5…

newsweek.com - Brendan Cole - Trump says navy will 'shoot and kill' mine boats amid strait escalation
Trump says navy will 'shoot and kill' mine boats amid strait escalation
Newsweek

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Navy to target any boats caught laying sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. His comments signal a preoccupation by the White House over how to reopen the critical waterway Iran has blockaded in response to…

bloomberg.com - Watch Freeport Shares Slide as Indonesian Mine Restart Faces Delay
Watch Freeport Shares Slide as Indonesian Mine Restart Faces Delay
Bloomberg

Freeport Shares Slide as Indonesian Mine Restart Faces Delay Bloomberg's Jacob Lorinc joins Scarlet Fu on 'Bloomberg Markets.' Freeport-McMoRan fell after the copper miner warned that a slower ramp-up at its flagship Grasberg mine in Indonesia will…

bloomberg.com - Trump Threatens Mine Boats, Warner Approves Paramount Deal, More
Trump Threatens Mine Boats, Warner Approves Paramount Deal, More
Bloomberg

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theguardian.com - Adam Fulton - Middle East crisis live: Trump orders US to 'shoot and kill' boats laying mines in Hormuz strait; Israel-Lebanon truce extended
Middle East crisis live: Trump orders US to 'shoot and kill' boats laying mines in Hormuz strait; Israel-Lebanon truce extended
The Guardian

Donald Trump has claimed that the infighting between moderates and hardliners in Iran's leadership is so intense that Iranians have “no idea who their leader is”, but many experts questioned his analysis, saying – given the…

fortune.com - Jon Gambrell - America learned how to guard ships going through the mined Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s during the 'Tanker War'
America learned how to guard ships going through the mined Strait of Hormuz in the 1980s during the 'Tanker War'
Fortune

Naval mines bobbing in the waters of the Persian Gulf, threatening oil tankers. Iranian speed boats raking ships with machine-gun fire in the Strait of Hormuz. And the United States right in the middle of the fight. This isn't the current conflict…

newswire.ca - Deepvein Mining Tech Wins NY Product Design Gold for Exploration Robotics
Deepvein Mining Tech Wins NY Product Design Gold for Exploration Robotics
CNW

SHANGHAI, April 23, 2026 /CNW/ -- Deepvein Mining Tech, a developer of robotic systems for mining operations, has received Gold at the 2026 NY Product Design Awards for its Intelligent Geological Mapping and Geochemical Sampling Quadrupedal Robots…

zerohedge.com - Tyler Durden - Speculation Persists That Ghalibaf Replaced With More 'Hardline' Figure As Pentagon Says Iran Is Laying More Mines In Hormuz
Speculation Persists That Ghalibaf Replaced With More 'Hardline' Figure As Pentagon Says Iran Is Laying More Mines In Hormuz
Zero Hedge

Avalanche of Friday morning headlines speculating on Iran FM travel to Pakistan, and potential US delegating arriving too, but much appears speculation. Third US aircraft carrier, the George HW Bush, has finally arrived in Mideast regional waters…

arkansasonline.com - JON GAMBRELL, JAMEY KEATEN AND AAMER MADHANI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - Trump targets Iranian boats laying mines | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Trump targets Iranian boats laying mines | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Online

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to 'shoot and kill' small Iranian boats that deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he said Thursday, a day after Iran again displayed its ability to thwart traffic…

axios.com - Barak Ravid - Iran deploys more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, sources say
Iran deploys more mines in the Strait of Hormuz, sources say
Axios

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy laid more mines in the Strait of Hormuz this week, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of the issue. Why it matters: The military standoff in the world's most important oil…

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