Despite the downturn in exploration during the June quarter, Helix Resources NL has maintained its geological and geochemical evaluations in Western Australia and South Australia.
A NEW community consultative committee has been established to help Premier Richard Court with economic and social developments in the lower South West.
The president of the world's largest alumina producer has challenged accountants to help the resources industry come to grips with the concept of the environmental balance sheet.
TWO Perth people have received $120,000 as WA winners of Interim Technology Group scholarships to further their careers in IT. Alice Vidente and Phillip Evans were chosen from applicants with backgrounds from engineering to hospitality.
Mt Grace Resources NL has signed a licensing agreement with Magnesium Developments International to licence the Heggie metallothermic technology for the production of magnesium metal from calcined magnesia.
Government initiatives to assist small business with GST compliance are a welcome relief, but more support is needed, warns the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants.
FUNDING of community services, facilities and projects, roads, dual use paths and drainage have received high priority in the City of Bunbury's $28 million budget for 1999/2000.
THE pure water market in Australia is growing at between 20 per cent to 30 per cent a year, according to Billabong Water Quality Management director Richard Patterson.
Encouraging drill results by Gold Mines of Sardinia Limited have provided a confidence boost for the company's plans to develop a major gold project in Sardinia.
THE WA Government's handling of the forestry debate is one of the factors destroying small business support for its policies, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.
IN A recent article published in the Australian Financial Review entitled Trade in phony eyes doesn't add up, journalist John Davidson unwraps the duplicitous nature of some Internet advertising behaviour.
THE hydrocarbon prospective San Joaquin Basin in the United States continues to figure high on the exploration schedule of Victoria Petroleum NL, which holds a 63.3 per cent direct and indirect stake in the California hydrocarbon real estate.
AIRLINE access to Broome from Singapore will open the town up to corporate meetings and high yield incentive travel groups from Asia and Europe, says Perth Convention Bureau managing director Anne-Maree Ferguson.
Lafayette Mining NL has increased by 50 per cent the Ungay Malobago resource on the island of Rapu Rapu, located 35 kilometres east of the southern Luzon city of Legaspi in the Philippines.
NEARLY 40 per cent of employers across the nation plan to increase permanent staff numbers in the next three months, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.
Prospects for the early development of the Balla Balla vanadium project by Tanganyika Gold NL have been enhanced by an injection of $10 million by Cape Bouvard Investments Pty Ltd.
