West Perth-based Forte Energy has sold its stake in the Maroochydore copper project in Western Australia to partner Aditya Birla Minerals for $2 million cash.
Perth-based office equipment financing company ThinkSmart has struck a three-and-a-half year wholsesale funding agreement with London-based Secure Bank Trust that will help facilitate expansion plans in the United Kingdom.
Skywest Airlines will reinstate its Kalgoorlie to Melbourne services, after suspending it late last year due to deteriorating economic conditions and escalating fuel costs.
A Diploma Group subsidiary has been named as the state government's preferred proponent to build a $50 million affordable housing project on Pier Street in the city.
Buyers will this year be able to start reserving blocks at the Perry Lakes Stadium site, where preliminary works to transform the area into a housing estate is about to begin.
Sinosteel Midwest Corporation has cleared the final hurdle for its Mid West iron ore project after today receiving environmental approval from the federal government.
Perth-based Aquila Resources, in joint venture with Vale, has awarded a $260 million mining services contract to John Holland for work at the Isaac Plains coal mine in central Queensland.
Mount Gibson Iron will restart construction of its Extension Hill iron ore project in the Mid West, with costs expected to reach $80 million, after executing life of mine ore sales agreements.
Global education services provider Navitas has entered the US market after executing an agreement with Western Kentucky University for the establishment of a university pathway college.
Berkeley Resources says it is now free to negotiate offtake or marketing rights with other parties after it terminated a heads of agreement with French company Areva.
Regional WA's top health executive Kim Snowball has today been appointed acting director general of the Department of Health, taking over from Peter Flett who resigned suddenly last month.
Perth marine safety company Mobilarm has called off its float on the Australian Securities Exchange after missing a critical deadline for processing its initial public offer funds.
The market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies surged 123 per cent, or $93 billion, in calendar 2009, according to the Deloitte WA Index.
Inglewood-based web design firm Bam Creative has become an employee-owned company with the majority of the firm's staff taking up the opportunity to become a business owner with much less risk usually associated with starting up a company from scratch.
Platinum Australia (PLA) has signed a deal with a Japanese state-owned outfit to progress the exploration program at the company's South African Stellex North Project.
Cape Lambert Resources' said it is "ideally positioned" to maximise profits from a possible sale of the Marampa iron ore project, located in Sierra Leone, West Africa, after African Minerals signed a deal for its neighbouring iron ore project.
Melbourne-based satellite communications company NewSat has secured contracts worth about $2 million in recent times including a $1 million contract to provide voice and data communications on the Gorgon gas project on Barrow Island.
The state government has released the East Perth Redevelopment Authority's new guidelines designed to meet the needs of inner-city development for six project areas including The Link, the Perth Cultural Centre and Riverside.
Premier Colin Barnett has welcomed former Woodside Energy corporate affairs general manager and Freehills lawyer, Brian Pontifex as his new Chief of Staff.
The Ningaloo Coast's nomination for World Heritage listing by the federal and state government's was recognition of the area's outstanding natural beauty, biological richness and international geological significance.
The state government has confirmed it is in negotiations with the administrators of Griffin Coal to provide a pre-payment of up to $4 million against the delivery of coal under Verve Energy's current coal supply contract.
Kagara has announced the first ore production from its Lounge Lizard high grade nickel sulphide deposit thanks to a joint venture struck just eight months ago with project neighbour Western Areas.
West Perth-based exploration company Range Resources plans to raise $7 million through a non-renounceable rights issue to fund projects in Georgia and Texas.
Perth-based stockbroking and funds management company Euroz Limited plans to double its interim dividend for the half-year ending December 2009, after reporting a 574 per cent increase in net profit.
Mamba Minerals plans to raise more than $1 million via a placement and non renounceable rights issue for on-going project cost and evaluation, new project acquisition and to provide further working capital.
The state government has awarded Southern Roads Services a $2.8 million contract to improve a 2.5 kilometre section of South Western Highway between Burekup and Picton.
