Oil prices have tumbled, with the US benchmark dropping 2.1 per cent, as investors weighed a mounting batch of weak economic data from around the world.
A WA based company which is the world's only supplier of pharmaceutical grade sandalwood oil has revealed a landmark deal it struck earlier this year was with global dermatology company Galderma.
Mid-tier iron ore miner Mineral Resources has increased its full-year net profit by 28 per cent to $231 million, with the help of a 93 per cent increase in iron ore export volumes.
Nickel miner Mincor Resources has released its full year results, revealing a net profit after tax of $1.85 million, a turnaround of more than $20 million from the previous financial year.
Former Kogi Iron and Galaxy Resources boss Iggy Tan has been appointed managing director of Australia Minerals and Mining Group, as the company moves to commercialise its High Purity Alumina project in the south-west.
Perth-based Handley Surveys has been given a $25 million two-year extension to its contract with Bechtel for surveying services to the Chevron-operated Wheatstone project.
Oil and gas firm Coretrack has signed a licence agreement with Specialised Oilfield Services for its core level recorder system technology, which will give SOS exclusive rights to develop, operate, manufacture and sub-license the technology.
Perth-based mining services firm Ausdrill announced today that its subsidiary Energy Drilling Australia would be mobilising its new $20 million high-tech rig, the Schramm T500XD Telemast.
Perth-based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been awarded an electrical and instrumentation contract at CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino Iron project at Cape Preston, worth over $10 million.
Oil prices have dropped with the main European benchmark contract sinking to a 13-month low after a prominent petroleum forecaster slashed the demand outlook for 2014 and 2015.
Perth-based explorer NSL Consolidated has announced it has received $2.5 million from financer Effectivo, which will in turn receive 25 million of the company's shares.
Subiaco-based gold and metal base explorer Ironbark Zinc has announced a $2.5 million capital raising for permitting and pre-development works at its Citronen zinc project in Greenland.
Shares in junior oil and gas explorer Neon Energy have surged over 70 per cent on the news that the company had agreed to pay $US5.75 million to its Vietnamese joint venture partners, settling financial liabilities.
Origin Energy has completed its acquisition of Karoon Gas's 40 per cent interest in its Browse Basin permits, which include the Poseidon gas discovery.
A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.
Fortescue Metals Group has awarded Perth-based Intellect Systems, a subsidiary of Resource Development Group, a control and engineering services contract for the first stage of its North Star magnetite project in the Pilbara.
VDM Group has responded to rumours it will acquire mining rights at an Angolan copper project by saying the potential acquisition is incomplete with no certainty on its terms.
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Perth gold miner Minera Gold has received $US4.5 million from investment company SilverStream to help fund the acquisition and proposed expansion of the San Santiago processing plant.
Gold prices have fallen, as concerns of a sooner-than-expected rise in US interest rates turned the tide of haven asset buying sparked by US airstrikes in Iraq.
Exploration and development company Cape Lambert has announced it will return almost $25 million to shareholders, just a week after a successful settlement with the Australian Tax Office.
The state government's Mining Rehabilitation Fund initiative has met with almost unanimous industry uptake, Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion said today.
South African engineering firm DRA has partnered with Perth mine planning consultancy Orelogy, one week after buying collapsed Forge Group's North American asset, Taggart Global.
