Staff Reporters

Chemeq has appointed Brian Mangano as chief financial officer and company secretary.

PAKISTAN-FOCUSED local explorer Tethyan Copper Company has increased its estimated resource base by 29 per cent at its H4 copper project in Pakistan, lifting the contained copper metal content to 1.1

Proposed code: KAL Issue price: $0.20 Principal activities: Gold based metals explorer.

JP Morgan Chase & Co became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 128,582,196 ordinary shares (7.66%).

Mathews Capital Partners became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 9,619,278 ordinary shares (5.16%).

Barclays Global Investors Australia Ltd increased its relevant interest from 9,678,016 ordinary shares (6.12%) to 11,472,284 ordinary shares (7.23%).

Has entered into a Heads of Agreement to acquire a 50.1% option interest in the Corachapi uranium deposit located in Peru.

Has reached in principle agreement with Hartleys Ltd to place 26,923,000 shares at an issue price of $0.13 per share to raise approximately $3.5 million.

99 Plain St East Perth, Upgrade and Modernization of Lifts Thyssenkrupp Elevator Australia Pty Ltd $658,900 Construction of 4x2 bedroom houses, Redhill aka Lundja Community via Hallscreek

A NEW research alliance has been announced between major oil and gas player ChevronTexaco and the Western Australian Energy Research Association.

Bryce Banfield, former state marketing manager for Ausbulk/ABB, has recently joined the AgraCorp wheat team as wheat acquisition manager.

Atlas Gold Limited has changed its principal place of business to: Ground Floor, 25 Richardson Street, West Perth WA 6005 Ph. (08) 9476 7900, Fax (08) 9476 7988

Queensland Investment Corporation ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Central Exchange Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 3,159,668 ordinary shares (6.447%).

Australian Executor Trustees increased its relevant interest from 5,359,884 ordinary shares (8.49%) to 5,916,247 ordinary shares (9.37%).

Entered into an agreement with Baker Steel Capital Managers LLP for DRD to raise R180.4M through a new issue and claw back offer.

Has reached agreement with First Pacific Mining Lao Co. Ltd to acquire a 60% interest in the sulphide portion of the Pha Luang zinc-lead-silver mine which lies 160 kilometres north of Vientiane.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained orders in the Federal Court appointing a liquidator to wind up an unregistered managed investment scheme promoted by George Peat, a Da

Telstra chief executive officer Ziggy Switkowski to speak at the Graduate Management Association Dinner, April 30 at the University Club, UWA.

Many of the state's ratepayers will be anxious to learn the results of the May 7 local government election after several councils and their elected members have received varying degrees of negative publicity in recent months.

Watershed Premium Wines has announced the appointment of Phil Fletcher as a director and also his engagement as a sales and marketing consultant.

INTERNATIONAL Goldfields, based in Leederville, is currently evaluating the economics of mining its Marda Central gold project, located in the eastern Goldfields, following promising resource estimate

Code: MMX Issue price: $0.20 plus one attaching option for every two shares held. Options exercisable at 20 cents on or before November 30 2007.

Colin Knox became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 4,882,807 ordinary shares (8.07%).

New Smith Opportunities Fund became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 15,000,000 ordinary shares (15.06%).

JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased its relevant interest from 13,401,292 ordinary shares (7.20%) to 15,523,488 ordinary shares (8.33%).

Announced a new $5m Joint Venture with Minotaur Exploration Ltd over the Tunkillia Gold Project in South Australia.

Has extended its contract with NSW RailCorp for the design and manufacture of an additional 81 OSCAR passenger railcars. The contract is $262m.

Draft effective lives relating to the commercial office buildings effective life review - released for comment by 6 May 2005. NAT 13300 http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/56460.htm

THE Business Council of Australia this week outlined a series of tax reforms viewed as necessary to ensure Australia's future prosperity.

Westonia Mines has appointed David Hatch to the position of managing director follow-ing the resignation of the company's founder Andrew Drummond.

LOCAL biopharmaceutical company Bone Medical has announced that it will employ the Bank of New York for an American Depository Receipt program in the US.