Mining

Atlas Iron has announced three new off-take agreements, covering more than 2.2 million tonnes of iron ore each year.

Perth-based Paringa Resources has raised $10 million through an initial public offering, which closed fully subscribed.

Caltex Australia has pleased the market by forecasting a return to full-year profit in 2012 but a slowdown in its marketing business has raised concerns.

Fortescue Metals Group says its Iron Bridge magnetite deposit near Port Hedland could be the next non-core asset it sells off, after it announced a significant increase in resources at the project.

Mermaid Marine has announced a $20 million contract win with Inpex at the Ichthys liquefied natural gas project off the Western Australian coast.

Australian retailers may be doing it hard, but they are fighting back with a new industry group designed to lobby governments on a range of issues affecting the struggling sector.

Shares in Iluka Resources fell by nearly six per cent on the ASX today after it said sales volumes to the end of November were at the bottom end of guidance.

Aquila Resources has announced it will begin arbitration with joint venture partner AMCI for its West Pilbara Iron Ore Project in February.

Forge Group has announced a $105 million contract win with Worley Parsons, to construct a power station for BHP Billiton near Newman.

Contractor Macmahon Holdings had more bad news for shareholders today, announcing that it would sell its construction business for just $16 million, raise more capital at a deeply discounted price,

BC Iron has raised $47 million from a share placement which will ensure the company has enough funds to complete the its acquisition of an additional 25 per cent stake in the Nullagine iron ore joi

Construction and engineering firm Decmil Group has won a $30 million contract with Rio Tinto to construct workshops and other minesite facilities in the Pilbara.

BHP Billiton has extricated itself from the contentious Browse gas project, agreeing to sell its interest to PetroChina in the third major ownership change the project has seen this year.

Cape Lambert Resources has agreed to pay the Australian Taxation Office $33 million as a provisional settlement for a dispute over $96 million in back taxes and penalties.

Engineering contractor Clough has extended its $200 million finance facility with a consortium of banks for a further three years.

Sirius Resources has raised $44 million to advance drilling programmes and project studies at its Nova copper-nickel discovery near Norseman.

Woodside managing director Peter Coleman has called for a broader debate on productivity issues, saying there has been too much focus on blue collar wage rates and not enough on costs the gas indus

Engineering contractor Sinclair Knight Merz has announced a renewal of its engineering, procurement and construction management agreement with Rio Tinto through to 2015.

A lack of uncommitted available reserves coupled with the demand for Australia's liquefied natural gas could create challenges for domestic gas supplies by 2016.

Transfield Services has won several new contracts worth $140 million, including work on two major energy projects.

Former Murchison Metals chairman Paul Kopejtka has joined the board of metals explorer Ascot Resources.

Uranium producer Peninsula Energy has secured $36 million in funding for the construction of the Lance uranium project in Wyoming.

Mining contractor Barminco says an initial public offering is off the agenda until at least 2014, as it aims to re-finance its debts over the current financial year.

Mining contractor Macmahon Holdings is poised for a capital raising as it battles to reverse a drop in earnings and tries to cut costs.

Iron ore miner Atlas Iron says it has completed a $US275 million financing package to put it on track to produce 12 million tonnes per annum by December 2013.

BC Iron has announced it will acquire an additional 25 per cent interest in the Nullagine iron ore project from joint venture partner Fortescue Metals Group for at least $190 million.

Woodside Petroleum has reached another joint venture agreement to expand its exploration interests in Myanmar (Burma).

Another mistake in acquiring land for Woodside's controversial Browse gas hub has made targeted timeframes "tight", Lands Minister Brendon Grylls concedes.

Perth-based mining company Talison Lithium has accepted a sweetened takeover proposal from China’s Chengdu Tianqi Industry Group, which trumped a competing proposal from an international chemicals

Wolf Minerals' major shareholder Resource Capital Funds has agreed to provide a 12-month funding package worth up to US$82 million (A$79 million) to support continued work on the Hemerdon tungsten

Suggestions Clive Palmer has transferred the registered address of his companies to Western Australia because of dissatisfaction with the Queensland government are overstated, the mining tycoon say

Resource companies operating in West Africa have been angered by the rise in resource nationalism.