Western Areas has announced a renegotiated offtake deal with China’s Jinchuan Group, covering up to 26,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate over a two year period.
Gases and engineering group BOC has announced two new upgrades at its Kwinana gas plant, as part of a $100 million-plus capital works program it is rolling out across Western Australia.
Former Macmahon Holdings boss Nick Bowen has been appointed executive chairman of Sydney-headquartered engineering, maintenance and construction group Tempo Australia.
Wesfarmers has lifted sales in all its retail businesses in the first half of the financial year, with the strongest growth coming from Coles and Bunnings.
Lynas Corporation says a state-based High Court in Malaysia has denied an application by environmental activists to seek a judicial review the licensing process for its rare earths processing plant
Six Pilbara workers have been awarded a total of $18,964 in unpaid redundancy entitlements for six workers at Fortescue Metals Group’s Solomon iron ore project in the Pilbara.
A survey that shows businesses have estimated a 14.5 per cent jump in energy costs due to the carbon tax underlines why the impost must be scrapped, Tony Abbott says.
TNG has begun discussions with a European engineering and metallurgical technology group over the commercialisation of the Perth-based vanadium miner’s proprietary TIVAN hydrometallurgical process.
Australia's mining construction boom is expected to peak in late 2013 and government spending cuts are making it harder to find a new driver of economic growth, economics advisory group Deloitte Ac
US construction equipment group Caterpillar has posted a 15 per cent rise in 2012 net profit, but that was below market expectations owing in large part to a charge of million that arose from acco
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has made a profit of about $60 million after selling her stake in diversified miner and contractor Mineral Resources.
The board of Perth-based drilling technology group Coretrack has defeated a spill motion against it, with more than 80 per cent of votes cast in support of the board despite an ongoing intellectual
The nation’s peak industry group has applauded the federal government’s reinstatement of incentive payments for employers taking on first-year apprentices to engineering trades.
Fortescue Metals Group's decision to not become involved in gas exploration in the Canning Basin via listed company Oil Basins has enabled Melbourne-based explorer Octanex to get a foot in the door
Perth-based Globe Metals and Mining has opted to withdraw from a joint venture exploring in Mozambique to instead focus on its flagship niobium project.
Fortescue Metals Group has reported increased iron ore shipments over the December quarter, but the benefits have been offset by costs of expanding and ramping up operations.
Miner Newcrest has maintained its full-year production forecasts after December quarter gold and copper production rose from the preceding three months.
Kingsgate Consolidated is to become the largest shareholder in gold and base metals explorer Caravel Minerals after agreeing to sell a package of exploration tenements for a loss of $15 millio
Subiaco-based Balamara Resources has secured listed West Perth phosphate company Minemakers and Indian fertiliser producer Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation as strategic partners in
Engineering contractor RCR Tomlinson has foreshadowed a 70 per cent increase in half-year net profit and says its outlook has been buoyed by developments in the Pilbara ion ore sector.
Perth-based gold miner Northern Star has signed a joint venture agreement with Fortescue Metals Group to acquire non-iron ore mineral rights to what it described as "barely explored" acreage near s
Iron ore remains Western Australia’s most valuable sector despite ongoing price volatility and uncertainty, accounting for almost two-thirds of total resources sales in 2011-12, a new report has fo
Perth-based exploration company MOD Resources has appointed former managing director of nickel miner Western Areas Julian Hanna as a non-executive director and technical consultant.
