Perth based Aurora Oil & Gas has announced plans to raise $70 million via a placement to fund accelerated drilling costs associated with its Sugarkane Field interest in Texas.
West Perth-based Hunnu Coal has announced plans to raise $40 million through a placement and will use the money to fund exploration and development of its coal projects in Mongolia.
Australian Renewable Fuels has reached a $2 million agreement with GlobalBiofuels Trading to produce 30 million litres of biodiesel for at least three years at Picton in the state's south in a "take or pay" arrangement.
Australian gold company Cleveland Mining has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange today and announced former Rio Tinto executive Don Bailey has been appointed chairman.
Emerging coal producer Continental Coal has moved a step closer to the acquisition of unlisted South African thermal coal miner Mashala Resources after raising $61 million.
Perth-based West African gold miner Azumah Resources has completed a $30 million capital raising to accelerate development of its 1.2 million-ounce Wa gold project in Ghana.
Shares in construction and mining company Macmahon Holdings have tumbled 21 per cent today after the company forecast a "break even" result for the first half of the 2011 financial year.
Two WA companies have won awards at the national Housing Industry Association-Boral GreenSmart Awards which recognise the importance of environmentally responsible housing.
Newland Resources has announced plans for a $6.1 million capital raising to fund the acquisition of coal exploration tenements in the Bowen Basin in Queensland and repay a $700,000 loan.
Shares in Southern Cross Goldfields have closed up 10 per cent after the company announced a substantial increase in the JORC compliant resource for its Battler gold deposit in Southern Cross.
South Perth-based Kasbah Resources has announced plans to raise $24 million to fund accelerated exploration and development at its tin project in Morocco.
West Perth-based Marengo Mining has signed a financing and off-take deal with a Chinese construction and engineering group for its copper, molybdenum and gold project in Papua New Guinea.
The Finance Sector Union has accused Westpac of making job cuts to boost the banks bottom line after the company announced it will be moving 120 jobs offshore.
Houston-based Oil States International is planning a push into the Australian market through a friendly $651 million takeover of The MAC Services Group which operates six mining camps in WA and Queensland.
A Perth couple who set up a charity to help provide meals for homeless people in inner-city Perth have been named the winners of the 2010 John Curtin Medal.
The median house price in WA dropped 4 per cent in the three months to September to $480,000, according to fresh figures from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
The managing director of Synergy, the state's main energy retailer, Jim Mitchell has decided to step down at the end of his current contract in April next year.
Cape Lambert Resources has extended its negotiations in a deal to formalise ownership and access rights to key infrastructure in Sierra Leone to transport iron ore from Marampa.
The share price of West Perth-based Encounter Resources has surged more than 27 per cent after the company announced it had discovered additional high-grade copper intersections from its Yeneena project near Newman.
Perth-based family business Kailis Organic Olive Groves has successfully completed the acquisition of Great Southern Olive Assets as the company looks to expand onto the world market.
