Industry Minister Tim Ayres has signalled any future bailouts will likely require 50-50 funding splits between state and ...

If the ALP insists on underwriting fading relics, it risks not just burning more taxpayer cash but consuming Australia’s ...

Glencore has admitted its Mount Isa copper smelter could be shut down before the end of next year, even after securing a ...

The funds follow an eight-month negotiation over Glencore’s request for financial support to keep its operations running amid ...

A potential deal to avert closure would mark the government’s fourth intervention to rescue a metals plant this year.

Rio Tinto is preparing to make a final call on the future of the Tomago aluminium smelter and its more than a thousand workers which could be out of a job by 2028.

Eskom has been asked to provide at least 1,000 MW of coal-fired electricity to a new Chinese-owned ferrochrome smelter, raising renewed concern about the sustainability of the government’s water- and ...

The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was supposed to be a launchpad for ambitious projects to help America lead the way on cleaner power and manufacturing. Now it’s been reduced to a shell of ...

The Mesa Hill's Leo Club, a junior organization of Lions Club International, recently organized a cleanup at Smelter Town ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc (FCX.N) is close to reaching a $2.8 billion deal with China's Tsingshan Holding Group to build a copper smelter in Indonesia's Weda Bay, senior minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on ...

Century Aluminum said it signed an extension of its power agreement with Santee Cooper to secure a stable power supply for its Mt. Holly smelter in South Carolina through 2031.

The loss-making Mount Isa copper smelter and Townsville refinery will stay open as their owner Glencore has struck a deal with the federal and Queensland governments for a taxpayer bailout.