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  1. Liberty Bell Bay smelter workers get another two weeks pay reprieve
    By Sandy Powell

    Workers at Australia's only manganese smelter will be thrown an additional lifeline as the state and federal governments step in with a two-week pay offer. It comes days before a previous short-term deal was due to expire.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-15/add

    #MiningandMetalsIndustry #SandyPowell

  2. Lithium giant's free car wash proposal 'ironic' for dust-covered town
    By Neve Brissenden

    Residents plagued by dust from Australia's oldest and largest lithium mine say a plan for a free car wash by the mine's owner misses the mark.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-14/tal

    #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Lithium #RegionalCommunities #MiningandMetalsIndustry #AirPollution #Environment #Health #NeveBrissenden

  3. $150m compensation payout for Yindjibarndi slammed as too little
    By Alistair Bates and Mietta Adams

    Andrew Forrest's Fortescue has been ordered to hand over the largest native title compensation payout in Australian history. But some say it falls painfully short of what is owed.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/fed

    #LandRights #IndigenousAustralians #MiningandMetalsIndustry #NativeTitle #Courts #AlistairBates #MiettaAdams

  4. Miner to sue council for $22m in years-long dispute over access road
    By Liam O'Connell

    A legal stoush between a Central Queensland council and one of Australia's largest coal mines deepens in Queensland's Supreme Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/bra

    #Courts #Coal #LocalGovernment #MiningandMetalsIndustry #LiamOConnell

  5. Miner to sue council for $22m in years-long dispute over access road
    By Liam O'Connell

    A legal stoush between a Central Queensland council and one of Australia's largest coal mines deepens in Queensland's Supreme Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/bra

    #Courts #Coal #LocalGovernment #MiningandMetalsIndustry #LiamOConnell

  6. Miner to sue council for $22m in years-long dispute over access road
    By Liam O'Connell

    A legal stoush between a Central Queensland council and one of Australia's largest coal mines deepens in Queensland's Supreme Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/bra

    #Courts #Coal #LocalGovernment #MiningandMetalsIndustry #LiamOConnell

  7. Miner to sue council for $22m in years-long dispute over access road
    By Liam O'Connell

    A legal stoush between a Central Queensland council and one of Australia's largest coal mines deepens in Queensland's Supreme Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/bra

    #Courts #Coal #LocalGovernment #MiningandMetalsIndustry #LiamOConnell

  8. Miner to sue council for $22m in years-long dispute over access road
    By Liam O'Connell

    A legal stoush between a Central Queensland council and one of Australia's largest coal mines deepens in Queensland's Supreme Court.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/bra

    #Courts #Coal #LocalGovernment #MiningandMetalsIndustry #LiamOConnell

  9. Government 'watching' as outback gold mine sets financial deadline
    By Meghan Dansie

    Queensland's largest gold mine has set a refinancing deadline, despite high global gold prices.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/rav

    #MiningandMetalsIndustry #MeghanDansie

  10. High Court to hear appeal over 22-year Mount Pleasant coal mine extension
    By Elizabeth Byrne

    The High Court will hear a major climate change case that could affect mining approvals, as the operator of the Mount Pleasant coal mine seeks to overturn a ruling blocking the project's extension.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/hig

    #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #Courts #MiningandMetalsIndustry #ElizabethByrne

  11. Record payout after billionaire built mine without traditional owners' permission
    By Andrea Mayes, Mietta Adams, and Alistair Bates

    Andrew Forrest's Fortescue has been ordered to pay $150 million to WA traditional owners after mining their land without permission.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/yin

    #NativeTitle #LandRights #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Environment #IndigenousCulture #AndreaMayes #MiettaAdams # #AlistairBates

  12. Breaking: Record payout after billionaire built mine without traditional owners' permission

    Andrew Forrest's Fortescue has been ordered to pay $150m to WA traditional owners after mining their land without permission.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/yin

    #NativeTitle #LandRights #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Environment #IndigenousCulture

  13. Window for smelter offers closes, with worker torment over jobs continuing
    By Paddy Manning

    The window for non-binding offers to purchase for the Liberty Bell Bay smelter, in Tasmania's north, has officially closed, with a union delegation taking their cause to Canberra as workers anxiously await news.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/lib

    #MiningandMetalsIndustry #StateandTerritoryGovernment #GovernmentFunding #PaddyManning

  14. SA premier 'very concerned' over Whyalla steelworks' blast furnace
    By James Wakelin

    Whyalla steelworkers are struggling to get the city's blast furnace producing iron again, with SA Premier Peter Malinauskas saying he is "very concerned" about the situation.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/sa-

    #Steel #MiningandMetalsIndustry #StateandTerritoryGovernment #Work #IronOre #JamesWakelin

  15. Mine boss hits back at claims of lead dust poisoning in NSW community
    By Joanna Woodburn

    The managing director of Bowdens Silver tells a parliamentary inquiry blood level monitoring for lead was being offered to prove the project would not affect human health, amid concern from residents.

    abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-10-

    #Gold #Lead #Silver #Zinc #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningRural #JoannaWoodburn