Perth-based Coalspur Mines has completed an $80 million capital raising via placements to strategic and institutional investors and will use the funds to move forward its application to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The WA state director of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Robin McClellan is leaving the organisation to take up a position with ExxonMobil.
Canning Vale-based Ausdrill has been awarded a mining services contract by Central Ashanti Gold for the company's gold project in Ghana which is expected to generate $US300 million in revenue over 5 years.
West Perth-based diversified resources company Reed Resources has received approval from the Department of Environment and Conservation to start construction of a minerals processing plant at the Mt Marion Lithium project near Kalgoorlie.
Shares in Subiaco-based Syndicated Metals have jumped more than 27 per cent today after the company announced its has discovered new zones of high grade copper and gold mineralisation at its Mount Remarkable project in north-west Queensland.
The Perth Convention Bureau has warned the announcement of a six-star boutique hotel at the Old Treasury Building will fall short of satisfying demand for new hotel rooms required each year.
A DRAMATIC escalation in wages in the offshore oil and gas sector is contributing to increased uncertainty across other parts of the nation's resource industries, according to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.
The member for Southern River Peter Abetz has introduced a Private Members Bill into state parliament aimed at providing small business franchisees greater protection from rogue franchisors.
The WA Local Government Association is calling on the state and federal governments to increase their investment in local roads after a new report revealed a $150 million maintenance shortfall.
The latest National Australian Bank housing survey suggest Australian capital city house price rises are set to remain weak, in contrast to yesterday's BIS Shrapnel housing outlook which predicted significant growth.
The managing director of Rio Tinto subsidiary Dampier Salt, Denise Goldsworthy, has been named the 2010 Telstra Western Australian Business Woman of the Year.
Quickstep has signed an agreement to allow US-based Vector Resources to use the company's patented Quickstep Process for advanced composites manufacturing.
The Environmental Protection Authority has written to the Environment Minister recommending conditional approval for Latent Petroleum to undertaken an onshore seismic survey in the Watheroo National Park north-east of Perth.
Avalon Minerals has released the results of its pre-feasability study for its Copper-Magnetite Project in Sweden, which has found it is an economically robust long-life project.
Advertising agency Marketforce has beaten rival agencies Gatecrasher and The Brand Agency to be appointed to run a new campaign to promote the refurbishment of the Perth Mint's tourism operations.
The executive director of Mineral Resources, Chris Ellison, has sold $35.9 million in shares in the company in an off-market trade taking his total sales in the past year to almost $90 million.
Ampella Mining has announced new assay results from its shallow infill drill programs at its mine in the Burkina Faso as the "highest and widest gold grades encountered to date."
