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Clive Palmer said he will consider a tilt at media ownership like his billionaire counterpart Gina Rinehart who has become Fairfax Media's biggest single shareholder.  
Royal Dutch Shell's top executives have dismissed weaker than anticipated fourth quarter earnings as a blip and said Europe's biggest oil company will embark on a new program to boost production, with an eye-catching emphasis on US...
A daughter of billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart complained that she was down to her last $60,000 and urged her mum to provide her with a cook and a bodyguard, according to emails tendered as part of the family's ongoing court...
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is wary of an economy where the only signs of strength are in the mining sector, after hundreds of jobs were slashed in the banking and manufacturing sectors.

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