Ailing iron ore miner Atlas Iron has done a deal with the majority of its lenders, who have agreed to a plan to cancel $US132 million ($183 million) of debt in exchange for equity in the junior exp
Perth-based Swick Mining Services has won a number of new contracts and renewals with Newmont Mining, with 15 rigs expected to be in operation by early next year.
Graphite players have had a soft 18 months, although some WA companies are developing new production techniques that might give them a leg up in the industry.
Crane hire company Boom Logistics has flagged an $18 million impairment in its half-year profit, with a portion of the write-down relating to costs associated with the shutdown of its transport business in the Pilbara.
Perth-based explorer IMX Resources has announced a restructuring of its Tanzanian assets, involving plans to spin-off its graphite portfolio into a new ASX-listed entity, while retaining its base and precious metals portfolio.
Diversified contractor SRG has won a new contract plus an extension to an existing contract to provide its services to several of Evolution Mining's gold mines, worth a combined $150 million.
SPECIAL REPORT: One of the few positives in a tough year for business was the gold sector, and at the forefront was Northern Star Resources, under the leadership of Bill Beament.
Local companies Triton Minerals, General Mining Corporation and Orinoco Gold have announced plans to raise a combined $24.6 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects.
Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources says it will suffer a $25 million pre-tax charge to its profit as a result of the decline in the Australian government bond rate.
Perth-based Tiger Resources has finalised terms of a $US162.5 million ($A225.5 million) finance facility with two investment groups to refinance its debt and fund expansion of its Kipoi copper project.
Mining and technology don't have to be in competition when it comes to capital, Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy said today, with the extractive industry in a prime position to export its knowledge in addition to hard commodities.
VDM Group is expected to seek debt funding from its largest shareholder after a planned $18 million equity capital raising with an unnamed investor fell through.
BC Iron shares plummeted today after the company announced production at the Nullagine joint venture would be suspended as a result of the weak iron ore price, with more than 200 jobs at risk.
Woodside Petroleum and its joint venture partners have given the go-ahead to a $2 billion subsea development at the North West Shelf Project off the Pilbara coast.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has seen off the first shipment of iron ore from her $10 billion Roy Hill project, on the same day BC Iron entered a trading halt ahead of a review of its Nullagine joint venture project.
Perth company directors Ian Middlemas and Domenic Martino have joined a flurry of pre-Christmas M&A deals that are valued at nearly $300 million, and designed to revive moribund resources companies.
Australian mining contractors Murray Engineering and Byrnecut have been involved in the delivery of the first automated underground mine in Africa, for Randgold.
Gold miner Northern Star Resources says its recently acquired Hermes deposit in the Bryah Basin could make a ‘significant' contribution to its annual production.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart is excited about the Roy Hill project's expected first iron ore shipment this week despite the commodity trading at a fresh 10-year low.
The liquidators of failed engineering contractor Forge Group have gained financial backing to pursue a claim worth about $200 million against Forge's former major shareholder.
Rio Tinto expects to cut its capital expenditure from a previously forecast $US6 billion to around $US5 billion next year, but it's unclear if the new figure includes the expected cost of its proposed Silvergrass iron ore mine.
State government-owned gold refiner Gold Corporation has had its longstanding national monopoly broken, with the accreditation of Sydney-based ABC Refinery by the London Bullion Market Association.
SPECIAL REPORT: Newly appointed chief executives in Western Australia are mostly receiving lower salaries than their predecessors, but retaining plenty of upside through incentive schemes, a survey of nearly 40 new CEO pay packages has found.
SPECIAL REPORT: The 2015 CEO salary survey has some surprising names near the top of the list while some of the state's best chief executives are unexpectedly low down.
Mineral sands producer MZI Resources has announced a letter of intent for a trial shipment to a Chinese chloride pigment producer, the day after it hit nameplate capacity at its Keysbrook facility.
A third-party arbitrator will be called in to settle a dispute between Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill Holdings and its key construction contractor, Samsung C&T.
Subsidiaries of listed companies Ausdrill and RCR Tomlinson have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and court costs over two workplace deaths five years ago.
