South Perth-based lobster exporter Cervantes Seafood Ltd has launched an abalone breeding program in conjunction with Curtin University's Muresk Institute of Agriculture, the company has announced.
Perth-based tin and nickel miner Stonehenge Metals Ltd will raise $1.7 million through a placement to boost working capital and provide further funding for exploration, the company has announced.
Dioro Exploration NL subsidiary Lodestar Minerals Ltd, which holds nickel rights over the parent company's Penfolds project, has announced plans to raise $5 million through a priority issue, ahead of listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
West Perth-based Universal Resources Ltd has signed a joint venture agreement with Claremont Resources Ltd, which will see the latter company spend up to $6.5 million on the Burra Zinc project in exchange for 77 per cent of Universal's interest in the ten
Drilling services company Ausdrill Ltd has completed a $95 million capital raising through a share placement and share purchase plan to fund expansion in Australia and Africa, including a move into contract mining in Australia.
Osborne Park-based copper-gold explorer Talisman Mining Ltd chairman Ian Macpherson has retired, to be replaced by Jubilee Mines NL director Alan Senior, the company has announced.
West Perth-based Metex Resources Ltd will move to full ownership of Carbon Energy Pty Ltd and its underground coal gasification technology after agreeing to buy out the CSIRO for around $41 million in cash and scrip.
CVRD-Inco will proceed to step three of the Kalgoorlie Nickel Project, its joint venture with West Perth-based Heron Resources Ltd, and will pass on a draft program and budget for the works by Saturday.
Kambalda nickel producer Mincor Resources NL is set to increase its production by 18 per cent after today announcing approval for the $23 million development of its 100 per cent owned McMahon Nickel project near Kambalda.
Metex Resources Ltd has reached agreement to buy out its 50 per cent partner in its joint venture company Carbon Energy Pty Ltd, currently owned by CSIRO.
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Rising feedstock prices and a lack of government support are threatening to derail the Western Australian biofuels industry, with the state’s biggest biodiesel player suspending production at its two facilities.
Like many Western Australian financial services firms, Subiaco-based Keysbrook Financial Services has felt the flow-on effects of the state’s booming economy.
The 40-year-old CWA House in Hay Street, West Perth, has been bought by Belmont-based construction company Diploma Group Ltd, which has a 30-apartment luxury residential development for the site in its float plans.
Western Australia’s not-for-profit housing providers are about to benefit from a major policy shift by the state government in relation to public housing.
A small group of Perth investors who continue to support the unfashionable biotechnology sector are hoping that patience will prove to be a virtue, just like for the mining investors who stuck to their guns during the tech boom and are now reaping the rew
Glencore International AG has lifted its stake in Minara Resources Ltd from 52.2 per cent to 53 per cent through the purchase of a further 4.4 million shares in the company at a cost of $26 million.
A new centre for nanochemistry research linking Curtin University, the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has been launched, four years after the concept was proposed.
As Liberal parliamentarians and power brokers assess the polls, which all point to electoral demise and thus “wall-to-wall” Labor governments for the first time ever, some have begun to suspect that November 24 will bring utter devastation.
Takeover target Consolidated Minerals Ltd's search for the mystery owners of 17.7 per cent of their issued capital advanced today, with the company identifying the owners of a 5.7 per cent stake as Ukranian investors unrelated to Palmary Enterprises.
The Western Australian Club has retained its St Georges Terrace home, downsizing its presence in the heritage building it recently sold to a scale that it says better matches its revenue.
West Perth-based gold explorer Castle Minerals Ltd will acquire a 8,200 sqkm gold project from Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd for around $500,000 in scrip and exploration expenditure.
Churchlands-based education provider IBT Education Ltd will develop a pathway program provider for the Cambridge campus of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, the company has announced.
The share price of West Perth-based Anvil Mining Ltd closed down 11.3 per cent as a review by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo into the nation's 61 mining contracts is due to be handed to the country's mines minister today.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has banned Financial planner Jason Lowth from providing financial services for five years, after finding he provided inappropriate advice about Westpoint products to clients.
Aquila Resources Ltd non-executive director Charles Bass today sold $13 million worth of his stake in the company while Nomad Building Solutions Ltd director Wayne Mcgrath realised $8 million from the sale of 2.5 million shares last Friday.
