Fraser Beattie

Silver Lake Resources has sold its Great Southern gold project to ACH Minerals for $5 million in cash.

Peet will develop a 1,100-lot residential estate in Queensland after forming a joint venture with a Thai real estate developer.

NBN Company has awarded contracts to six companies to deliver the national broadband network to homes and businesses in the Telstra hybrid-fibre coaxial network.

Uranium company Berkeley Energia, chaired by Perth dealmaker Ian Middlemas, plans to spend $125 million developing a mine in Spain, with the expectation that demand for yellowcake will ramp up by 2018 when the mine opens.

Sandfire Resources has lodged a mining lease application for the development of its majority-owned Monty copper-gold project, located near its flagship DeGrussa mine.

Water Corporation will spend $232 million to double the capacity of its water recycling plant in Craigie, which is designed to boost Perth's drinking water supplies.

Unemployment in Western Australia retreated slightly last month, while the national jobless rate edged higher, new figures have shown.

Aspiring gold miner KIN Mining says it has rejected a proposal from Victoria-based MHM Metals to merge the two companies.

Digital media company migme has been forced to extend its suspension on the ASX to complete a planned capital raising, which it said would be essential for the business to remain viable.

Gold miner Troy Resources has warned of a big hit to its production guidance for 2016 after facing a number of delays at its Karouni operation in Guyana.

A former Choice Industrial Training employee has been fined nearly $2,300 after being found guilty of falsely assessing candidates for high-risk work licences.

Premier Colin Barnett has cut the ribbon to mark the official opening of the new $217 million underground Perth Busport, with services to begin this weekend.

Perth-based Seafarms Group has commenced a $1.2 million upgrade of its prawn quarantine facility in Exmouth, which forms part of its Sea Dragon prawn aquaculture project.

Millennium Minerals has boasted better-than-expected gold production at its Nullagine project, with costs in-line with previous targets.

Two very different Perth companies, tech start-up Pointerra and precast concrete manufacturer WestStar Industrial, have begun trading on the ASX today after completing their respective reverse takeovers.

Perth-based apartment developer Finbar Group has flagged a near-70 per cent fall in net profit for FY16, on the back of investment property impairments.

Panoramic Resources has today confirmed plans for a spin-out of its Gum Creek gold project into a new ASX-listed company, while Metals X is considering the possible sale of its Rover gold project.

Perth-based explorer Geopacific Resources has entered into an agreement to farm-in to Kula Gold’s Woodlark Island gold project in Papua New Guinea, in a deal worth up to $18.6 million.

A local psychological consultancy business has taken top honours at the 2016 Telstra Business Awards after being named Western Australian Business of the Year.

Local resources company GWR Group has backed out of plans to provide about $1.6 million to Excelsior Gold through a share placement.

Gold hopeful Cardinal Resources has rattled the tin for $21.7 million to fund ongoing work at its Namdini project in Ghana.

Perth-based GR Engineering Services has won a $36 million contract to design and build a processing facility in Queensland for private equity-backed Auctus Resources. 

Telstra has confirmed up to 103 job cuts in Perth and 326 nationally, with a union claiming the telecommunications giant’s head count would be reduced by as much as 450.

Copper and gold miner Sandfire Resources has announced record production at its flagship DeGrussa mine near Meekatharra.

Local explorers Hot Chili and Orinoco Gold have raised a combined $9 million from investors to fund ongoing work at their respective projects.

Andrew Forrest has lost his battle to stop Yarri Mining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate’s Minderoo cattle station in the Pilbara.

Premier Colin Barnett has softened his position on the proposed privatisation of Western Power, saying it could be used by Labor as a scare campaign in the state election next year.

Shares in engineering and construction business Valmec surged after the company announced plans to suspend dividend payments to preserve capital for its expansion plans.

Welshpool-based Indigenous Construction Resource Group has been named 2016 business of the year at the Perth NAIDOC Awards.

Perth-based New Energy Corporation has signed a contract to manage waste in the Town of Port Hedland utilising its $200 million waste-to-energy plant, which is due to open in 2018.

Local gold miners Resolute Mining, Saracen Mineral Holdings and Ramelius Resources have hit their production targets for FY16 at lower-than-expected costs.

Local explorer Bass Metals has restructured its management team after acquiring a graphite mine in Madagascar and kicking off a $5.5 million capital raising.