THE Property Council’s initiative for the reform of central Perth’s ad hoc and often controversial planning processes is expected to become a reality in the near future.
The East Kundana gold project and other mining interests are shaping up well for Gilt-Edged Mining NL which has just posted a swag of “encouraging” drill intersections.
After picking up strong signals of a polymetallic sulphide zone by geophysical survey, Julia Mines Ltd has started a 2000 metre reverse circulation drilling programme at Pipeline Bore to test targets on the Allco Monetti joint venture ground.
Perth-based company Inter-national Mineral Resources has taken the final step to becoming a telecommunications infrastructure company with its recent re-listing as ‘FTL’ on the Australian Stock Exchange.
A price increase for diamonds from the Kimberley region of South Africa augurs well for Majestic Resources NL which has just commenced bulk sampling its Pniel Estate diamond project.
Men and those in the information technology sector are most likely to work for a company with performance-based pay, according to national recruitment company Recruiters Australia.
THE Property Council has protested strongly to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission at the WA Government’s proposal to charge stamp duty on GST-inflated prices, effectively imposing a double tax.
WA IS set to strengthen its position as the world’s number one supplier of alumina with the completion of the $260 million expansion at Alcoa’s Wagerup refinery which will allow Alcoa to boost its share of the WA market by around 5 per cent.
Perth-based exploration junior Alkane Exploration NL is on the point of proving up the marketability of product from its 100 per cent held Dubbo Zirconia project, located twenty kilometres south of Dubbo and 400 km north-west of Sydney.
There’s an old saying with more than a grain of truth in it that one should ‘never trust a restaurant with a view, which revolves or which overlooks the water’.
EXPLORATION discoveries and a strong reinvestment program have augured well for gold miner Hill 50 Gold NL which posted a net profit after tax of $10.77 million for the last fiscal year.
A few weeks ago the world rather dubiously celebrated the birth of the sixth billionth citizen on planet Earth.At the end of the first millennium, the world’s population was estimated to be about 300 million. At the beginning of this century it was 2.5
Capital gains tax changes proposed under the Ralph review could be both a boon and a burden to mum-and-dad investors, according to the Australian Society of CPAs.
THE appointment of former Homestake CEO Richard Tastula as a director of Titan Resources NL has given a significant corporate boost to the company’s various resource endeavours.