Peter Ker

Australia

Mining and Resources Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Mining and Resources Writer at The Australian Financial Review PH: +613 8667 2383 [email protected]

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Articles

Iron ore company’s CEO, Mike Henry, warns of ‘significant’ economic risks from Donald Trump’s tariffs

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

BHP chief executive Mike Henry says China’s ability to ramp up domestic consumption will determine whether the Trump administration’s tariffs will create a global economic downturn. The warning that US tariffs could have a “significant” indirect impact on Australia’s biggest miner came as aluminium giant Alcoa said it would suffer a $US100 million ($157 million) hit because of the new US tariffs. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
Donald Trump’s critical minerals tariff probe to boost Aussie miners

1 week ago | afr.com | Andrew Tillett |Peter Ker

Miners and the Albanese government believe Australian resources projects will get more favourable access to the US market after President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into critical minerals imports, putting Chinese producers under threat of future tariffs.
BHP to turn NSW coal mine into pumped hydro site

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

BHP has won permission from the NSW government to shut the state’s biggest thermal coal mine early and pivot towards clean energy production via a possible hydro-electricity scheme. More than 60 years of coal mining at Mount Arthur, near Muswellbrook, will cease in 2030 under the plan approved by the NSW government on Wednesday. Loading...
Rio Tinto flags $150m hit amid decade low in iron ore exports

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Apr 16, 2025 – 9.16am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Rio Tinto’s flagship iron ore division has made its weakest start to a year in a decade on the back of wild weather that will cost $150 million to mitigate, while its biggest Pilbara rivals appear to have escaped largely unscathed.
Australian miner issued shares to mysterious Russian investor

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Apr 14, 2025 – 6.11pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The market regulator has taken legal action against two executives responsible for issuing $7 million worth of shares in ASX-listed Wiluna Mining to a mysterious investor who never paid for them.
Board fights and mass resignations: the battle splitting the nation’s geoscientists

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker |Elouise Fowler

Apr 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It’s been dubbed a mass extinction of company directors, but the six departures from the board of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists in the past nine weeks have had less explanation than the event that wiped out 90 per cent of life on Earth 252 million years ago.
Executive Rag Udd says China demand will remain strong for several years, price to remain above $80 a tonne

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Apr 7, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? BHP chief commercial officer Rag Udd says Chinese steel makers will maintain current production rates for several more years and that iron ore prices should remain above $80 a tonne, bolstered by growing demand in new sectors such as electric vehicles.
Glencore seeks taxpayer bailout for Queensland copper smelter and refinery

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Elouise Fowler |Peter Ker

Apr 3, 2025 – 5.58pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Glencore has demanded a government handout for its struggling Mt Isa copper smelter and Townsville copper refinery, making it the latest global company seeking a bailout, following a multibillion dollar rescue of the Whyalla steelworks.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund to vote against Rio Tinto unification

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker |Mark Wembridge

Apr 1, 2025 – 9.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Norway’s $2.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund has rejected calls to collapse the dual-listed structure of the world’s second-largest miner, Rio Tinto, despite two of America’s biggest pension funds throwing their support behind such a plan.
Multimillion-dollar Juukan Gorge remedy payments to remain secret

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Mar 31, 2025 – 9.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The details of a multi-million dollar annual payment made by Rio Tinto to the Indigenous owners of Juukan Gorge will remain a secret after federal regulators accepted an argument from the foundation established to oversee the money that transparency would put a price on cultural heritage.