A dam on a remote South Australian sheep station has been drained during a new search for Gus Lamont — but there has still ...

The company is pressing ahead with $840m of spending at the giant copper mine, but says high energy costs may be a barrier to future Australian investment.

Police have provided an update on their weeks-long search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont after draining a dam at his ...

No trace of missing boy Gus Lamont has been found after police drained a dam on a remote property where the four-year-old went missing in September.

Agricultural research consultancy AgEcon Australia will lead a five-year project that will test the feasibility of installing floating solar panels on irrigation dams to manage evaporative losses and ...

Recent downpours have brought relief to areas ravaged by bushfires and drought -- as well as chaos and destruction to towns and cities along the eastern seaboard. On Thursday, Nepean Dam south of ...

A dam near the home of missing boy Gus Lamont will be drained to rule out the possibility the four-year-old drowned after he ...

BHP (NYSE:BHP) has announced an investment of more than 840 million Australian dollars ($556 million) into growth-enabling copper projects at Olympic Dam in northern South Australia. The funding will ...

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The most common cause of dam failures is overtopping where the spillway cannot cope with floodwaters. Reservoir safety may also be challenged by rapid or sustained water level lowering during droughts ...