Staff Reporters

Sedimentary Holdings Ltd has announced its intention to make an off market offer for all the shares in Nustar.

Settlement of acquisition of Key 2 Ltd's property management subsidiaries is now scheduled to take place on 1 December 2004.

10,130,000 shares have been placed with institutional and professional investors at 36 cents per share.

KOJONUP has beaten a strong field of regional finalists to be named the State winner of the Tidy Town Awards 2004.

A JOINT venture between Kareelya Limited and WA Developments has resulted in the release for sale of 12 strata-titled holiday homes at Geographe Bay development, Azure.

 DAVID Bond has returned to KPMG Perth from Victoria where he led the firm’s Melbourne Global Transfer Pricing Practise for two years.

WESTCARE has released its annual Christmas Seals Appeal.

Proposed code: CRKIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Gold mining

John Andrew Simpson ceased to be a substantial shareholder. 

Healthscope Ltd increased its relevant interest from 102,178,077 ordinary shares (22.59%) to 259,021,111 ordinary shares (57.26%).

Has reached agreement to increase its equity in the Pancon/Afrex African joint  venture projects by 150% from its current 40% to 100% by acquiring its joint venture partner – Afre

Has sold its shareholding in Magyar Mining plc (formerly St Istvan Gold plc) to Excalibur Mining Corporation for $4,290,000.

AN updated policy on how to deal with substantial holdings has been released by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

ENGINEER RCR Tomlinson’s $10 million capital raising via a rights issue and share placement has met with disapproval from major shareholder Singaporean-based MTQ, which has decide

ROBERT Clifford has been promoted to the role of director of operations at the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre.

WHILE its contract battle with the BassGas joint venturers continues, Clough Limited has sold its 50 per cent interest in Shark Bay Resources Pty Ltd to Mitsui Salt Pty Ltd for mo

Crikey (media) political editor Christian Kerr to speak at The New Opportunities for Independent Media January 20 at the University of Western Australia.

Proposed code: SIMIssue price: $0.20Principal activities: Gold and base metal exploration.

Mineral Commodities Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,658,000 ordinary shares (13.12%) to 8,642,810 ordinary shares (14.81%).

Ocean Resource Capital Holdings PLC decreased its relevant interest from 107,480,547 ordinary shares (15.02%) to 772,480,947 ordinary shares (10.13%).

Placement of 30 million fully paid ordinary shares at $0.62 per share to clients of Southern Cross Equities Ltd and Euroz Securities Ltd has been completed.

A SCHOLARSHIP honouring former Department of Agriculture director general Mike Carroll has been awarded to Graeme Doole.

MULTIPLEX has lodged an interim development application with the Armadale Redevelopment Authority to develop a multi-million dollar distribution centre for Coles Myer at Forrestda

 AUGUSTA Margaret River Tourism Association marketing and communications manager Peter Rigby has resigned from the association.

Code: IBROpening price: $0.40Principal activities: Exploration and development of gold deposits in Portugal.

Paradice Cooper Investors Pty Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

McRae Investments Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 226,280,208 ordinary shares (53.8%) to  306,880,208 ordinary shares (63.9%).

Has executed a Heads of Agreement with Astron Ltd for Astron to buy  Matilda's heavy mineral concentrate production from its Tiwi Islands projects.

Lodged response to ASX query.

Golden Prospect PLC has taken 11.1M shares at 42 cents per share.