Marine services company MMA Offshore has won a $50 million contract to provide services to Woodside Petroleum, but says low oil prices are placing significant pressure on market demand, with conditions unlikely to improve during the financial year.
NRW Holdings has accepted a payment of $30 million to settle its dispute with Samsung C&T over work on the Roy Hill iron ore project, despite having been awarded $35 million through adjudications under the Construction Contracts Act.
Doray Minerals has finalised a $51 million contract with GR Engineering Services for work at its Deflector gold project in the Murchison region, which is now fully funded and on-track for production by mid-2016.
ACA Lawyers has filed a class action against Macmahon Holdings on behalf of the contractor's shareholders over its alleged delay in revealing information about problems with a major infrastructure project in 2012.
Local explorer Dacian Gold has kicked off a $25 million capital raising to fund ongoing work at its Mt Morgans project near Laverton, where it hopes to start construction in 2017.
Northern Minerals is cutting salaries and reducing its head count to reduce costs as it seeks to complete the next stage of funding for its Browns Range rare earth project near Halls Creek.
Global miner BHP Billiton does not yet know what caused a tailings dam to burst at an iron ore mine in Brazil, killing at least two people and leaving 28 missing.
The resources sector has dramatically increased productivity in the past year, as lower commodity prices drive a wave of cost cutting across the industry, according to the latest national accounts numbers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
A program that links PhD students with industry is attracting support from companies as diverse as iron ore miner CITIC Pacific Mining, software developer Lateral, and aged care provider Southern Cross Care.
Evolution Mining appears close to finalising a protracted takeover bid for smaller rival Phoenix Gold, with both companies announcing their boards had reached an agreement after Evolution increased the cash component of its offer.
A Perth technology company seeking to disrupt the mining and energy industries has highlighted how rapid changes in the clean energy sector will also disrupt its own plans to scale up its hydrogen and graphite production.
Former mining services company Viento Group is under new leadership after a board restructure replaced all directors, including John Silverthorne, who in July struck a deal to buy all of the compan
BHP Billiton has signed a native title agreement with the Banjima people, calling the century-long deal one of the most significant of its kind in Australia.
Perth company Minemakers has struck a deal with an African investor that will deliver new funding of $28 million for its Baobab phosphate project in Senegal.
Macmahon Holdings was hit with large protest vote at today's annual general meeting, after major shareholder CIMIC Group surprised the mining services firm with a large 'no' vote.
Singapore-listed contractor Ausgroup has reported a net profit of just $472,000 for the September quarter after incurring higher restructuring costs and delays to its new marine services business.
Kingsrose Mining managing director Scott Huffadine has resigned following a series of operational setbacks at the company's Indonesian gold mine, on the same day Kingrose postponed repayments on $10.1 million of debt to non-executive director Bill Phillips.
Gold miner Metals X has reached commercial terms for the formation of a ‘big pit' near Kalgoorlie by combining its recently acquired Georges Reward project with Southern Gold's neighbouring Cannon mine.
Local explorer Rox Resources is considering either selling its Reward zinc project or spinning it out into a new company, as part of a strategic review of its projects and assets.
Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has been affected by weak commodity prices and is bracing for more of the same, revealing its 2014-15 revenue slid by more than 22 per cent to $2.04 billion.
Perth companies Valmec and Northern Minerals have struck agreements to raise up to a combined $8.2 million through the issue of convertible securities.
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A third of Mirabela Nickel's workforce at the Santa Rita mine and 180 contractors have been made redundant, as the troubled miner begins scaling back production at its nickel project in Brazil.
Private equity group Auctus Chillagoe looks set to gain control of Atherton Resources, after major shareholders said they would vote in favour of the improved $56 million offer.
Local explorer Black Rock Mining has received firm commitments for a $5 million capital raising, including from an entity associated with its chairman, Stephen Copulos.
