Investors with a preference for local stocks should be licking their lips as a flurry of Western Australian companies look to float on the hot Australian Stock Exchange in the lead up to the Christmas break.
The mining and finance industry has sounded alarm bells over expanded stamp duty provisions that may reap another massive tax windfall for the State Government while stifling takeovers and investment activity in the Western Australian resources sector.
The State’s private health service sector is missing out on significant opportunities in the growing $US30 billion global trade in health services, a new report has found.
Geographic information systems provider NGIS is hoping its experience in Asia will help it break into China, one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing markets.
While merger and acquisition activity is heating up in the resources sector, besides a few usual suspects, local analysts remain hard pressed to identify local takeover targets that would offer a major company significant value.
Representatives from the various sectors of the State’s mining industry are yet to fully back the Government’s offer to review local government mining-related costs.
The State Government is considering a review of mining-related costs to local authorities.The move comes as concern mounts in the State’s mining and exploration industry over increasing shire rates fo
In a potential breakthrough for the Western Australian mining industry the State’s environmental authority this week revealed it is considering a number of key changes to the process for applications under newly established land clearing laws.
Key amendments to the Western Australian Mining Act are expected to pass through State Parliament this week, with the prime objective of the amending bill to reduce the backlog of mineral tenement applications currently in the system.
The State’s mining industry wants a faster solution to the delays and a growing backlog of mineral exploration licences that has developed in the wake of new Clearing of Native Vegetation regulations.
Western Australian iron ore producers, revelling in record production levels, are moving quickly on expansion projects. Jim Hawtin reports. In what could only be described as a red letter week for We
Pressure is mounting on the State Government over the regulation of Western Australia’s non-wheat grain exports, with the State’s two farmer lobby groups stepping up their opposing criticisms of regulation policy.
China’s seemingly insatiable demand for iron ore has helped global mining giant Rio Tinto subsidiary Hamersley Iron earn the mantle of Western Australia’s top exporter.
Major US copper producer Asarco Incorporated has put its stake in the Yamarna gold joint venture near Laverton on the market as it continues its exit from Australia and other non producing assets around the world.
It is unknown what the mining industry’s appetite will be like for failed gold and tantalum miner Sons of Gwalia’s gold assets, which are expected to be offered for sale very soon.Conflicting reports
The Western Australian Government believes the success of a new unit to speed up the approvals process for major resource and industrial projects will be reliant on the ability of proponents to provid
Soaring demand for Western Australia’s resources has created a bonanza of new business for a host of small and flexible contractors operating in the North-West.
