BHP Billiton has joined the debate surrounding the Labor party's use of an American university student's report in to the disparity between the tax payed by mining giants as Treasurer Wayne Swan took another swipe at the sector.
An increasing number of Australian companies are seeking to make acquisitions in the next six months, Ernst & Young's latest bi-annual Capital Confidence Barometer, released today, shows.
West Perth-based Chalice Gold Mines will place 21,613,080 shares at 42 cents per share on the ASX in order to raise approximately $9.1 million capital for purchasing a greater interest in the Zara Gold Project.
Murchison Metals has welcomed the $339 million state capital funding for the Oakajee Port and Rail project, announced yesterday by Premier Colin Barnett.
Business credit enquiries from small to medium businesses have grown steadily this year depsite over a third of SMEs having experienced a lending rate increase during the six months to April 2010, two separate surveys have shown.
Fox Resources says it is in talks with shareholder Jinchuan Group to extend a current offtake deal and a possible $20 million funding agreement for its Radio Hill nickel-copper project in the Pilbara.
The state government has secured the immediate future of the Australian Prospectors and Miners Hall of Fame (APMHF) in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, today signing a $290,000 rescue package.
CITIC Pacific Mining managing director Barry Fitzgerald has resigned from the Hong Kong-listed company to take up a position with Hancock Prospecting, a week after an $US835 million cost blowout was revealed at the Sino Iron project in the Pilbara.
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia plans to merge its website with aussiehome.com, with the latter's founder, Charlie Gunningham, to manage the combined product.
Employees in large Western Australian companies received the biggest wage hike in the country with a 4.6 per cent increase over the past 12 months, higher than the 3.7 per cent national average, new figures show.
Mixed messages from offshore markets in April have left Western Australian stocks a little flat, the Deloitte WA Index shows, ahead of further market volatility this month stemming from the proposed resources super profit tax.
West Perth-based Aphrodite Gold has today opened its $10 million initial public offer to progress exploration and development at its namesake deposit which it recently bought from Apex Minerals.
The founding managing director and chief executive of NRW Holdings, Jeffrey McGlinn, has resigned from the mining services company to pursue other private business interests.
Engineering and construction company Clough have set up a coal seam gas division with Mel Whyte at the helm, as part of its strategy to better penetrate the energy sector.
The competition watchdog has flagged its intention to reject a proposal by a group of car rental companies to enter into collective negotiations with Perth Airport.
WA's resources services sector has been given a boost with MTU Detroit Diesel opening its new $30 million facility while Lowrie Construction expands its base.
Quickstep Holdings, in partnership with Vector Composites, has been awarded a $US4 million ($A4.5 million) fund by the US Air Force to help with the Joint Strike Fighter program.
The state government has today committed $12 million from this year's budget to provide low-interest loans to community sector ogranisations and a social innovation grants program.
The Australian Financial Services and Securities Dealers Association has negotiated with Lloyds of London to provide professional indemnity insurance products for its members.
Poseidon Nickel has increased its focus at its flagship Windarra project after selling a greenfields gold project in Ghana to Hodges Resources for up to $1.5 million in cash and scrip.
West Perth-based Green Rock Energy has teamed up with Leighton Contractors to jointly investigate geothermal energy supply options for the planned expansion of the QEII Medical Centre.
CommSec has again claimed top spot in Canstar Cannex's annual online share trading report while State One Stockbroking's online trading platform, Amscot, made its debut.
Fox Resources has potentially doubled the mine-life for its Radio Hill copper and nickel operation in the Pilbara following an evaluation of the Sholl B2 deposit.
Leighton Holdings' value of work at Chevron's massive Gorgon gas project has risen past $1 billion after it, in consortium with Saipem, was awarded a further $150 million of work to build the project's liquefied natural gas jetty and marine structure.
Perth CBD occupancy costs remain the most expensive in Australia, despite falling 27 per cent in the past twelve months, according to a new Global Office Rents report from CB Richard Ellis.
