A new Western Australian gold float is being prepared to breathe life back into the rich Chalice gold mine, which helped make many fortunes in the mid 1990s.
Perth's Aurox Resources Ltd has clinched a deal potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the aspiring Pilbara vanadium producer with one of Europe’s biggest companies.
Perth-based international consulting, engineering and contacting company, VDM Group, has its sights on further acquisition-based expansion and expected listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in the middle of next month.
The share price of mining junior Batavia Mining Ltd has more than doubled in the first few days of 2006 on a 140 per cent gold resource upgrade that could bring its Gullewa copper gold project in Western Australia back in production within a year.
Two strategic acquisitions during the year will play the major role in Consolidated Minerals Ltd’s growth over the next two to three years – the takeover of Reliance Mining Ltd and an initial 20 per cent stake in Jabiru Metals Ltd, expected to significant
Renowned corporate head kicker and Consolidated Minerals boss Michael Kiernan has positioned ConsMins for some healthy profits over the next few years, but it has been at a cost. Mark Mentiplay reports.
As the gutted shell of Xanadu Wines, the renamed Global Wine Ventures, considers its options, the Rathbone family is moving quickly to re-establish founder Dr John Lagan’s vision of Xanadu as a premium Margaret River wine and tourism icon.
Margaret River wine pioneer Dr John Lagan has seen his Xanadu Wines collapse and its major assets sold to eastern states interests. In the process shareholders, his family included, have lost millions of dollars. Mark Mentiplay reports
Chevron has sold nearly all its share of gas from the first phase of the $11 billion Gorgon gas project off WA's north west coast, worth about $30 billion over 25 years from 2010.
The race is on between two Western Australian companies to become the first of the world’s new primary vanadium producers to go into production in 2007.
Chasing record copper prices, Western Australian nickel/copper producer Fox Resources has launched a bold, fast-track plan to switch its Radio Hill plant near Karratha in the Pilbara to handle about $50 million of high-grade copper ore it has uncovered ne
Australia's two biggest iron ore miners, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, have either just spent or have in the pipeline more than $10 billion worth of short-term Pilbara expansion plans to cash in on the booming China-fed steel market.
The changing face of the international iron ore game is probably best exemplified by the current rapid development of Australia’s second largest iron ore region in Western Australia’s Mid-West region.
Western Australia’s iron ore export industry started in the mid 1960s with the first major shipments to Japan, expanded to South Korea and Taiwan in the early 1980s and, in more recent years, China.
The first students will graduate this year as part of Murdoch University’s bold plan to create a computer science-games centre of excellence as a precursor to establishing a world-class cyber industry in Perth.
