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Search for an Aussie dunny morphs into a mining safety tool

Like a lot of Australian stories, this one starts with a search for a toilet – but with far wider reaching ramifications than anyone could initially have predicted.

The incredible, untold story of Ces Leary, WA’s trailblazing female geophysicist

She might well have been Australia's first female geophysicist. But it's only in the past two years that Ces Leary's family have learned how remarkable their pioneering relative was.

The golden discovery poised to change the way we look at the Pilbara

Emerging explorer and project developer De Grey Mining is out to prove there is much more to mining in WA's North West than iron ore.

How a ‘hare-brained’ mining idea raised nearly $1 million for charity

An old loader which had reached the end of its usual lifespan has been reborn in the Goldfields with some far-reaching impacts.

Meet the man and company chasing mining’s ‘impossible dream’

Twenty five years ago in WA's Goldfields, Daniel Tucker started what would become Australia's biggest Aboriginal-owned company. But he now has his sights set on even bigger goals.