MURCHISON United’s bid to acquire significant copper assets has fallen foul of regulations on the London Alternative Invest-ment Market, where the company is dual-listed.
THE opening last week of the Australian Resources Research Centre at Technology Park was more than the culmination of 10 years’ work built on initiative and negotiation between the CSIRO, Curtin University and three successive WA Governments.
A GLOBAL initiative on sustainability, which grew out of perceived threats to the minerals and mining industry, is due to release its first report next month.
FORMER Hartley Poynton analyst David Franklyn has joined the inner sanctum at privitised utility AlintaGas following a brief flirtation with funds management.
Sasol Chevron says the announcement by Methanex to locate its proposed methanol project on the Burrup Peninsula will not affect decisions concerning its own planned gas-to-liquids plant.
MCKINSEY director Michael Rennie believes creating a climate where people are both trusted and optimally productive is imperative to building company wealth.
JUST two and a half years old, Perth’s specialist construction finance company, The Loan Company, now boasts 17 finance managers, the latest two being Paul Maree and David Paull.
“WE need a horses-for-courses tax system.”This was just one comment made this week as leaders of major Australian minerals and mining associations reiterated their industry wish-lists for the next term of the Federal Government.
VARIOUS mining and minerals industry bodies are taking different approaches during the Federal election campaign, with most seeming to adopt a version of the wait-and-react strategy.
WITH its top-20 shareholder list now 70 per cent occupied by UK-based institutions, Perth-based Dwyka Diamonds is also about to list on the Alternative Investment Market in London.
