Western Australian juniors Great Australian Resources and SA Metals, formerly Pan Palladium, have advised shareholders to take no action to Sylvannia Resources $31 million takeover offers.
Osborne Park-based A1 Minerals says it is on track to becoming a gold producer later this year as it awards a $1.7 million plant refurbishment contract to CPC Engineering.
East Perth-based Fleetwood Corporation is vying for contracts with some of the state's major resource projects, submitting tenders for the Gorgon gas project and Gindalbie Metals' iron ore joint venture.
The drop in Western Australia's jobless rate is not cause for celebration just yet with Premier Colin Barnett saying the state is not out of the woods while economists are treating it as a "rogue" number.
PERTH technology firm Antaria expects a licensing agreement with global pharmaceutical firm Merck will see its products make an impact on the international market.
Stirling Resources has extended its financial relationship with Austrian commodities trader DCM DECOmetal, raising $10 million to acquire Matilda Minerals mineral sands assets.
Barra Resources will restart its Burbanks gold mine near Coolgardie within weeks after it struck new mining and profit-sharing deals with Kalgoorlie-based Mulgabbie Mining.
Extract Resources has appointed Rothschild Australia as its corporate adviser to help facilitate the early development of its Rossing South uranium project in Namibia.
Shares in Uranio have skyrocketed as much as 250 per cent as the uranium explorer unveils the state's ninth largest uranium deposit at its Ponton project.
Atlas Iron will expand its footprint in the Pilbara after deciding to exercise its option to acquire iron ore rights in six Pilbara tenements from Haddington Resources for $1 million.
A joint venture between NRW Holdings and VDM Group has won a $240 million contract from CITIC Pacific for work at the port area of the Sino iron project at Cape Preston.
Perth-based Aditya Birla Minerals has reported a full-year net loss of $76 million as it halted production at two of its operations on the back of lower commodity prices.
Engine technology group Orbital Corporation has entered a $2.4 million deal with a Chinese business to jointly develop a concept engine that will improve fuel economy.
Japanese company INPEX has awarded AMEC Engineering the contract for the offshore front end engineering and design (FEED) for the Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in the Browse Basin.
Gold miner Newcrest Mining has withdrawn from its joint venture with Leederville-based SmartTrans Holdings over the Mount Mackenzie gold joint venture in Queensland.
The steep economic slowdown reduced new infrastructure projects to a trickle in the first three months of the year, propped up only by a major federal government initiative, according to economic consultancy Access Economics.
THE tenure of chief executives in Western Australia is likely to get a lot shorter if recent trends keep up, with a flurry of local firms making changes at the top.
The Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation has called on Premier Colin Barnett to put Aurox Resources' Balla Balla iron ore project on hold after claiming the company refused to negotiate a native title deal.
The Environmental Protection Authority will tomorrow release its recommendations on Chevron's expansion proposal for the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project.
OZ Minerals Ltd, which has struck a deal with China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Co Ltd that will give it funds to pay down debt, has reported mixed production results from its Golden Grove mine in WA.
West Perth-based Reed Resources has obtained an exclusive option to acquire a silver project and processing plant near Kalgoorlie from a private company for more than $2 million.
Galaxy Resources says it is investigating several sites in China for a processing plant for its Mt Cattlin lithium and tantalum project near Ravensthorpe.
Straits Resources has called a halt to trading of its shares, pending an announcement to its recent $US335 million ($A474 million) deal with Thailand's PTT International Company.
The state's economy is tipped to fall into recession in fiscal 2011 however Access Economics has forecast a "slow slowdown" as spending on big projects such as the $12 billion Pluto project offsets a dramatic downturn.
Tap Oil says it will farm-out interests in some of its projects in order to boost its forward cash flow while it cuts its 2009 exploration expenditure by 65 per cent on the back of lower oil prices.
