As Senior Editor at Business News, Mark Beyer has a wide-ranging brief to research, analyse and report on the issues, trends and personalities affecting the business community in Western Australia.
Mr Beyer has 35 years' career experience, primarily in business journalism. He joined Business News in 2002 and previously worked for The Australian Financial Review and The West Australian, and also has public relations and corporate affairs experience.
Before becoming a journalist, he was an economist with the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.
Mount Gibson Iron’s Shine project in the Mid West could become the fourth iron ore mine to halt operations this month after the company called a trading halt.
A Supreme Court ruling has shed new light on contractual disputes on the mammoth Gorgon gas project as Chevron and contractor CKJV fight over $400 million in disputed payments.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Dexus buying Jandakot, Raleigh Finlayson, Sandfire Resources, Quintis, Dallas Dempster, John Elliott, APM, iron ore and RemSense IPO.
Dale Alcock’s ABN Group has grown to become Australia’s second largest residential housing builder while BGC Housing Group has maintained its ranking as WA’s biggest.
A Perth company that has partnered with Woodside Petroleum on multiple technology projects is raising capital to fund the global rollout of its ‘digital twin’ technology.
GWR Group has become the fourth junior iron ore company to suspend operations or review its strategy in light of the dramatic fall in the commodity’s price.
Privately owned Perth company APM has established a powerful advisory board ahead of a likely ASX listing, with new appointments led by Ben Wyatt and Nev Power.
The state government has selected three horticulture groups to develop nearly 280 hectares of land near Carnarvon, with Fruitico to develop by far the most.
State government regulators have commenced an investigation into the death of a 52-year old maintenance worker at the Sino Iron project in the Pilbara.
Venture Minerals has suspended operations at its iron ore mine in Tasmania after just one shipment, with the company squeezed by higher costs and falling prices.
A faster-than-expected fall in iron ore prices, which are half their peak levels, has led to a big sell-off of mining stocks and raised doubts about the government’s budget outlook.
The Australian government has approved a $32 million loan for construction of a cotton gin at Kununurra though the project’s full potential hinges on approvals for land development.
Canva has become the world’s most valuable private software company after a $US200 million capital raising; its Perth-raised founders have pledged their stake for social good.
Fortescue Metals Group has announced a high-level framework agreement with the Eastern Guruma people and flagged a $500 million mining joint venture but was light on details.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the state budget, including iron ore royalties, new infrastructure priorities, debt and tax reform, labour shortages and border restrictions, mining technology, Perdaman, logging and Smiths Beach.
BUDGET: Last year’s boom in iron ore prices underpinned a massive surge in WA government revenue but the good times are coming to an end, with treasury assuming prices will fall sharply.
BUDGET: The state government has deferred 16 infrastructure projects to take heat out of the construction industry while setting aside funds for a new desalination plant and port at Kwinana.
On today's episode of At Close of Business, senior editor Mark Beyer discusses some of the businesses driving technological innovation in WA's mining industry.