The state government will team up with Woodside Petroleum and Curtin University to develop two new specialist training facilities in the Pilbara as it encourages more people to live and work in the region.
Gold prices have declined as investors remained upbeat about an eventual resolution to the US budget impasse that has kept the federal government shut down for four days.
Fertiliser producer Yara Pilbara has committed more than $50 million towards housing its growing workforce in Karratha as it works towards opening an $800 million ammonium nitrate plant.
Toro Energy has received approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board for its $37 million acquisition of the Lake Maitland uranium project in central Western Australia.
Gold has ended lower, but futures pared earlier losses as weaker US economic data helped offset pressure from investors looking to lock in recent gains.
The resources boom is not over and the sector is entering a new export growth phase that will deliver Australia "serious money", Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says.
Norton Gold Fields has cashed in on the state government's new mining rehabilitation fund scheme, securing $21.8 million in environmental bond refunds to date.
Gold miner Ramelius Resources has made its first $5 million payment to acquire Goldfields' Vivien gold project in Western Australia and has also achieved record production at its Mt Magnet project.
BHP Billiton has withdrawn from a farm-in agreement with St George Mining over nickel rights attached to the East Laverton project just months after agreeing to proceed with the deal.
Oil prices rallied Wednesday, despite a larger-than-expected jump in US crude stockpiles, on news that TransCanada's southern leg of its Keystone pipeline is near completion.
Premier Colin Barnett says Rio Tinto's new port expansion in the Pilbara is a sign of confidence in the resources sector which will allow Western Australia to boost its iron ore exports.
MZI Resources has secured $US41.5 million in funding from international private equity group Resource Capital Funds for the development of its Keysbrook mineral sands project.
Paladin Energy is set to slash its costs by $US23 million over the 2014 financial year and suspend all non-essential exploration activity as it looks to stem losses from a weakening uranium price.
Chevron has signed binding long-term sales and purchase agreements with Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Company for gas supplied from the $29 billion Wheatstone LNG project.
Aphrodite Gold's former chief executive and former managing director have each resigned as directors of the company ahead of a planned shareholder meeting today.
Billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart wishes to relinquish her role as the trustee of her family's multibillion-dollar trust, a Sydney court has heard.
West Perth-based Chalice Gold Mines has made an offer to merge with Canadian gold developer Coventry Resources as it seeks to find assets to boost its cash flow.
Former resources minister Martin Ferguson has joined Kerry Stokes' investment company Seven Group Holdings as its head of natural resources and will also chair the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association's advisory board.
Saracen Mineral Holdings has bolstered its board with the appointment of Samantha Tough and Geoffrey Clifford as non-executive directors, four months after launching a major cost-cutting drive on t
Programmed Maintenance Services has won a $100 million contract to provide support for work on the Ichthys liqueified natural gas project off the coast of Western Australia.
Mirabela Nickel plans to pursue new strategic and funding options after announcing multiple setbacks at its Brazilian mining operations, including the loss of one of its customers and a likely increase in capital expenditure.
Empire Oil & Gas is facing a board upheaval with its biggest shareholder and joint venture partner ERM Power calling a meeting of shareholders to consider removing Empire's executive chairman and two other directors.
Northern Minerals has made a raft of new appointments as its commences a pre-feasibility study for its Browns Range rare earths project in the Northern Territory.
