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Rio Tinto offers $4 million towards rebuilding flood-ravaged Fitzroy Crossing in WA's north, as payment for the painstaking search to find a tiny radioactive capsule it lost last month.

The miniscule capsule, which measures 8mm by 6mm, contains cauesium - which is commonly used in radiation gauges and emits dangerous emissions at the equivalent of undergoing 10 X-rays in an hour. It could cause skin burns and even cancer

Rio Tinto Iron Ore has apologised for losing the highly radioactive object, prolonged exposure to which can cause cancer and skin burns

Rio Tinto has announced an investigation into how a tiny, toxically radioactive capsule went missing on the journey from a WA desert mine site to Perth.

Mark McGowan establishes an investment trust funded by the state's most prominent resource companies to realise 'legacy projects'.

WA's iron ore miners are ramping up production with new mines, but with the commodity price falling, is it worth it?

Female FIFO workers say it can be a "daunting" and isolating industry as the WA Minister for Mines calls for gender quotas to improve workplace culture.

Insiders say a culture of fear, silence and repression allowed inexcusable behaviour to be "swept under the rug" in the mining industry, and those factors are continuing to prevent women speaking out.

Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people will have say on future of mines on native title area, two years after heritage site was blown up