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Cu-River Mining Pty. Ltd. is a privately owned Australian resources company with interests in iron ore mining and port development projects in South Australia. It is the smaller of two iron ore exporters operating in the state, the larger being the GFG Alliance. The company is owned by Adelaide-based businessman, Yong Gang Shan and as of 2019 its only producing asset was the Cairn Hill mine in the state's Far North. The company has contracted mining, processing and freight logistics services to Agile Mining Services and Lucas Total Contract Solutions
In October 2017, the company announced that it would invest $800 million in expanding the Cairn Hill mine. Cu-River Mining has contracted JiuJiang Mining Australia (the Australian arm of the JiuJiang Group, China) to undertake infrastructure improvements at Cairn Hill.
In May 2019, the future of Cu-River's operations in the Woomera Prohibited Area were called into question, following national security concerns regarding its proximity to a restricted weapons and technology testing range.
In January 2020 it was announced that Cu-River mining was withdrawing from Cairn Hill after its 270 million AUD expansion plan, though the company was still listed as the mine's tenement holders and operator in the project's 2020-21 compliance report to the Government of South Australia. Reportsa.gov.au
Cu-River Mining's interests are represented to the South Australian parliament by the lobbying firm, Silk Road Commercial Pty Ltd. Silk Road has no other political lobbying clients on its books as of 2021.
In 2020, Cu-River Mining signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Haviliah Resources, a prospective iron ore exporter with leases to mineral deposits in the Braemar region in South Australia.
In January 2021, Port Playford received development approval from the South Australian government. Cu-River mining intends to use barges to transship ore onto Cape-sized vessels at the existing transshipment points in Spencer Gulf that were created for transshipment of iron ore from Whyalla. Work started on the port in August 2021, with the aim of first shipments in the second half of 2023. The first ore is expected to come from Cairn Hill mine (owned by Cu-River) and from Peculiar Knob mine (owned by Peak Iron).
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