The outback mining hub Mount Isa is making a pitch to become a centre for green energy and critical minerals, in a multi-billion roadmap that could see multiple gigawatts of wind and solar and its ...

Swiss multinational Glencore, the operator of Mount Isa Mines, announced in October last year that copper mining operations ...

Living in the outback Queensland mining centre of Mount Isa, Mr Butler is among many men who spend years working underground, clocking in and out of exhausting 12-hour days. Fatigued and trying to ...

Mount Isa’s location on incredibly mineral-rich deposits (it’s estimated there is $680bn still in the ground across the North West Minerals Province) and its highly skilled mining workforce ...

Cross-border commissioner Ian Leavers would like Northern Territory pub bans enforced in Queensland to combat the scourge of ...

Mount Isa has unveiled a bold $2 billion bid to herald a brand new era for the mining mecca in outback Queensland. With the city’s Glencore copper mine set to shut down this year – and ...

Transport insiders are sounding the alarm over the Mount Isa-Townsville railway, which they say is so focused on squeezing money out of miners, it is unintentionally killing the industry.

An outback mining region has outlined a vision to become a critical minerals and clean industry powerhouse that the council ...

Mount Isa Mines also mines and processes zinc, lead and silver and runs these operations on behalf of Xstrata Zinc. Xstrata Copper is one of four commodity businesses within the major global ...