WHEN Resource Capital Funds signed a deal early this month to become a substantial shareholder in Heron Resources, the Colorado venture capital company backed its first nickel venture and prepared to add only its third Australian
THE Australian Gas Association will close its Perth office at the end of the month after deciding it can best service its members with a focus on downstream issues, mainly centred in eastern Australia.
ROB Robertson probably won’t write a book about the transformation of Australia’s rail systems since the 1950s, which is a pity because he knows more than most on the subject.
WHILE industry analysts decry the decline in exploration spending in Australia, many companies have been waiting for the green light to spend their exploration dollars in Western Australia.
WHEN Namibia reopened its doors for minerals exploration and development in 1999, Reefton Mining was on the threshold, with an order for some of the historically renowned diamond country along the Skeleton Coast.
EVANS & Tate’s new executive general manager, Phillip Osborne, has never lived in Perth and never owned or managed a vineyard.He readily admits to dreaming of being in the wine industry, however.
WESTERN Mining Corporation’s executive general manager for exploration, Jack Parry, made some startling claims at the CPA Australia Resources Convention in Perth last week.
WITH the Timor Gap framework agreement between the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and Australia put to bed, UN appointee and chief negotiatior Peter Galbraith is back home in Vermont, US.
“SINCE my transfer to Kalgoorlie 12 months ago, I have recognised that gold stealing has been carried out to an enormous extent. I call it a business, for such it is, pure and simple.”
ON the eve of reporting record results for the 2000-01 financial year, Amadeus Petroleum has received a further boost in the form of an independent valuation upgrading its proven Texas reserves to $US13 million.
MARY Hackett spent much of the 1980s studying by the sea in Galway, Ireland. Now she spends time each month on the sea, on a rig off WA’s north-west coast.
CLOSE to completing its 18-kilometre gas pipeline in Turkey, Amity Oil is already talking of a possible second regional pipeline project, to be decided late this year.
CLOSE to completing its 18-kilometre gas pipeline in Turkey, Amity Oil is already talking of a possible second regional pipeline project, to be decided late this year.
DESPITE the demand for base metals falling below levels experienced during the Asian financial crisis, a reduction in supply should ensure prices during the next six months remain higher than during those of the late 1990s.
THERE may have been some doom and gloom about the recent Office of Gas Access Regulation draft decision on the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline, but both Epic Energy and Duke Energy remain keen on gas pipelines in Australia.
WITH private backing and Federal Government grants worth millions of dollars, a growing venture support network is providing Western Australians with marketable ideas early stage business skills and seed capital, and links to
Its enough to get a trainspotter all hot and bothered, let alone some commodities expert calculating just how much Pindan earth and iron-bearing ore has been moved from the heart of the Pilbara, 275km west to the Indian Ocean coast.
WEST Musgrave Mining is acutely aware it is sitting on something hot.Although not a lot of serious work has been done in the West Musgrave region until this season, the fight is definitely on to obtain a piece of the highly prospective territory.R...
WITH AlintaGas facing an end to its monopoly of the WA retail gas market by July 1 2002, speculation has increased that the company will split its distribution and retail operations.
DEALS this year with South Africa’s third largest platinum producer, Lonmin, and Perth-based companies, Platinum Australia and Helix Resources, have underscored the state of flux in the world platinum scene.
WHEN the Perth Mint introduced its first platinum coin in 1988, little did it expect to retail the world’s largest selling platinum bullion coin issue for the next seven years.
