Western Australian nickel hopeful Nickelore Ltd has revised the terms of its rights issue, offering shareholders one new share for every existing share held at an issue price of 25 cents, down from its previous offer in December of 30 cents per share.
Perth-based gold miner View Resources Ltd and Queensland's Norton Gold Fields Ltd have posted strong production increases from their Western Australian operations.
Perth-based engineering services company, Neptune Marine Services Ltd, has secured its largest integrated subsea services project with global exploration and production company, Apache Energy.
Perth-based Allied Gold Ltd has appointed mining engineer Richard Johnson as its new chief executive, while announcing the resignation of Grant Brock as company director and chief operating officer.
West Perth-based uranium explorer Uran Ltd has lodged an appeal against a decision by authorities in the Czech Republic to decline its licence application to explore the significant Brzkov deposit.
Windimurra Vanadium Ltd is set to launch a $54.8 million rights issue to fund planned development at its namesake project in Western Australia's Mid-West region.
Engineering company WorleyParsons Ltd has been awarded a five-year maintenance contact at BP's Kwinana oil refinery, expected to generate revenue of $70 million.
Northbridge-based Impact Minerals Ltd is free to resume exploration of its Yarrabubba project, near Meekatharra, after plaints lodged against six tenements at the site in 2006 were dismissed by the Warden's Court.
Polaris Metals NL has revealed a new look management team with chief operating officer Jonathan Lea replacing Kevin Schultz as managing director, as the iron ore hopeful switches its focus from exploration to production.
Polaris Metals NL spin-off Southern Cross Goldfields Ltd is looking to raise up to $10 million to progress its gold and nickel exploration aims, ahead of listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Clough Ltd has successfully completed a capital raising of more than $45 million, via the placement of 108 million shares to its shareholders and the underwriter of the rights issue, Murray & Roberts Ltd.
Wavenet International Ltd has received a substantial order to the value of $1.6 million for the engineering development and production supply of modems for Chinese energy utility markets.
Nedlands-based Lodestar Minerals Ltd, a subsidiary of Dioro Exploration Ltd, has made an underwhelming debut on the Australian Securites Exchange today, with its shares down 1 cent on their 20 cent issue price at start of trade.
West Perth-based Regal Resources Ltd has sold its Eucalyptus Gold project in Western Australia's north eastern goldfields for $2 million in cash to a private syndicate.
Barra Resources Ltd says it has hit pay dirt after uncovering what it believes is one of the most spectacular gold discoveries in Australian resources history at its Burbanks underground mine near Coolgardie.
Paladin Energy Ltd managing director John Borshoff has made an instant paper profit of almost $19 million and chairman Rick Crabb almost $16.5 million, after they exercised share options in the uranium miner today.
Rio Tinto Iron Ore has given the green light to construct a Remote Operations Centre on a two-hectare site at Perth's Domestic Airport, as foreshadowed in WA Business News this month.
Plans to build a $400 million lumber project at Albany have effectively come to an end after Subiaco company Lignor Ltd said it had failed to raise $350 million, triggering the resignation of its managing director Glyn Denison.
Western Australia is on the verge of a plant breeding revolution, following the signing of two historic agreements between WA and Zhejiang University in China.
Woodside Petroleum has awarded the engineering contract for its Pluto gas plant to a FosterWheeler WorleyParsons joint venture, continuing the run of success Sydney-based WorleyParsons has had in Western Australia.
Michael Kiernan's diversified mineral company India Resources Ltd has expanded its footprint in the Indian resources sector, paying $2.3 million for a 17 per cent stake in fellow Indian minerals developer Pebble Creek Mining Ltd
Natural gas consumption in India has the potential to rise significantly- from 32 billion cubic metres in 2005 to 82 billion cubic metres in 2025- according to a new Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics report.
Nickel and base metal explorer Breakaway Resources Ltd has entered into a strategic farm-in joint venture worth $3.5 million with Barra Resources Ltd, over an ambitious gold exploration programme at Breakaway's Kambalda West project in Western Australia.
PepinNini Minerals Ltd has paid $5.5 million for a 51 per cent stake in Eagle Gold Mines Ltd and entered into a farm-in agreement with the company to explore for iron ore in seven Eagle Gold tenements in the Robinson Range area of Western Australia.
EXPLORATION companies Navigator Resources Ltd and CityView Corporation Ltd have successfully completed share placements to raise $5 million and $10 million, respectively.
A fresh wave of nickel miners is hopeful a new processing technology will realise significant cost benefits, as trials into the feasibility of heap leaching on laterite nickel deposits move into full swing in Western Australian.
VDM Group Ltd executive director Stuart Cuthbert has decreased his indirect interest in the company - held by Redmont Resources Pty Ltd - through the on-market sale of 1 million shares valued at $2.7
