West Leederville-based St George Mining has completed a $4 million Initial Public Offering and expects to list on the Australian Securities Exchange later this week.
Gindalbie Metals says it may produce its first iron ore earlier than its targeted date of mid-2011 and is set to reap strong margins for the bulk commodity.
Premier Colin Barnett says he has received an assurance from Royal Dutch Shell that it will not sell down its remaining 24 per cent stake in Woodside Petroleum for the foreseeable future.
Murchison Metals has dismissed reports that joint venture partner Mitsubishi Development wants to pull out of building the $4 billion Oakajee iron ore port and moved to address concerns about the structuring of the project.
Paladin Energy and Aquila Resources are at odds with climate change campaigners after the companies both rejected resolutions to discuss the issue at their AGMs.
A Chinese consortium led by Sin-Tang Development has foreshadowed a fully underwritten capital raising for iron ore developer Sphere Minerals as an alternative to Xstrata's $514 million takeover offer, which was increased today.
Talison Tantalum today announced that the company would be renamed Global Advanced Metals, as it focuses on resuming its mining operations in Western Australia.
Westgold Resources has completed a scoping study at its Rover 1 gold tenement in the Northern Territory saying it has yielded strong results with net cash flow estimated to be $118 million.
Venture Minerals has announced plans for a $20 million capital raising to fund ongoing exploration and feasibility studies at the Mt Lindsay tin/tungsten project in northwest Tasmania.
CORPORATE reputations of mining companies have become increasingly important as society tries to grapple with costs and benefits of producing resources.
Gold explorer Alchemy Resources has intersected wide intervals of gold mineralisation during an eight-hole RC drilling program at its Magnus Copper-Gold project in the Murchison.
Following three tough months Wesfarmers and the state's miners helped the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies, which comprise the Deloitte WA Index, to bounce 5.3 per cent higher in July to $148.4 billion.
A $40 BILLION liquefied natural gas supply contract has crowned a sustained investment push into Western Australia by South Korean companies determined to shore up their long term supplies of key commodities.
Sandfire Resources has defied today's market trend to record a modest increase in its share price after announcing a substantial increase in the size of its DeGrussa copper deposit.
OZ Minerals’ $100 million plunge on shares in Western Australian copper explorer Sandfire Resources has refocused attention on what is shaping as Australia’s next great copper province.
Energy giant Shell has struck its first third party supply deal for liquefied natural gas from its planned $US5 billion Prelude floating LNG project off the Kimberley coast.
The proposed merger of Aurox Resources and Atlas Iron moved a step closer this week with an Independent Expert deeming the transaction "fair and reasonable".
If bets were placed on the chances of pigs flying over Perth, or a former president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions criticising employers for paying their workers high wages, it's a fair chance that the flying pigs would get shorter odds.
Australian mining executive John Carr-Gregg, tragically killed in a plane crash in West Africa, has been remembered as a gentleman and family man at a memorial service in Sydney.
The ASX Appeal Tribunal has overturned the Exchange's earlier decision to ban the relisting of shares in two Tony Sage companies, International Petroleum and Global Iron.
Swick Mining Services has announced a downgrading of its revenue guidance for the 2009-10 financial year as a result of delays in several drilling programs.
Aspiring manganese miner Mesa Minerals has cancelled its extraordinary general meeting scheduled for tomorrow after significant shareholder Mighty River International requested resolutions for the meeting be withdrawn.
Fox Resources says it is in talks with shareholder Jinchuan Group to extend a current offtake deal and a possible $20 million funding agreement for its Radio Hill nickel-copper project in the Pilbara.
Western Australia's title as the resources state was further cemented today with new figures showing it accounted for 79 per cent of the $109.6 billion committed to projects across the country.
Shares in Balcatta-based minerals tester Ammtec have soared 30 per cent after it received a $123 million takeover offer from laboratory services and chemicals producer Campbell Brothers.
The Northern Territory government has launched a concerted campaign to poach business from Western Australia and rival Perth as a regional oil and gas capital.
West Perth-based Aphrodite Gold has today opened its $10 million initial public offer to progress exploration and development at its namesake deposit which it recently bought from Apex Minerals.
