Daniel Newell

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Iron Ore has started cutting hundreds of jobs across its Pilbara empire in a move the company claims will add another decade of life to ageing mines.

Shares in Emeco have plunged after it tempered earnings expectations by warning investors of a softer-than-expected end of the financial year, partly blamed on war in the Middle East.

Details have been released covering how the new $1000 tax deduction for work-related expenses will work when it starts on July 1. Here’s what you can and can’t claim under the new rules.

WiseTech has insisted the tech giant is unaware of any Australian Federal Police investigation into its founder and executive chairman, Richard White.

Iluka Resources has inked its first offtake deal with a mystery buyer for rare earths from its under-construction refinery at Eneabba as it closes in on commissioning by the middle of next year.

The jobs of more than 100 mine site works are in limbo after Mineral Resources revealed it was shuttering a mine in WA’s north.

The miner will mothball a garnet operation on WA’s Mid West coast, just nine months after scooping it up from a failed company run by Chris Ellison’s brother.

An eleventh-hour bid by Raleigh Finlayson’s Genesis Minerals to steal Vault Minerals away from rival Regis Resources has done the job.

Rio Tinto is keeping a watching brief on the latest flare up of tensions in the Middle East as it counts the cost of soaring diesel prices that drove up production prices in the first half.

The former company behind Rosendorff has been placed in liquidation, after the jewellery brand was reduced from a retail chain to just one CBD store and rescued by the creditor seven years ago.