Luxury WA jeweller Linneys has revealed its new project, with Argyle pink diamonds used in the creation of three quokkas valued at more than $500,000 each.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Argyle Diamonds provides a case study in how marketing and product development can deliver an alternative path to value adding in the mining sector.
With a number of WA's biggest businesses relying on unmanned drones to reduce surveying and inspection costs, new schools are teaching drone pilots how to fly.
A dispute over the future of the failed Ellendale mine might not be the worst event in the downturn hurting the state's once-brilliant diamond industry, because the much bigger Argyle mine is also facing a fresh threat to its future.
Former executive chairman of the Kimberley Diamond Company, Miles Kennedy, has left the role of managing director at Lucapa Diamond Company as part of a board restructure.
Liberty Resources has announced its intention to exit the mining industry by entering into an option agreement to acquire local IT firm Cirrus Networks for an undisclosed amount.
In the first of four extracts from Peter Kennedy's recently released book, Tales from Boom Town, the author looks at the first WA Inc deal and the introduction of fly in, fly out mining in WA.
About eight years ago I was fortunate enough to catch a ride on a small aircraft from Kununurra, flying over Lake Argyle, the Argyle diamond mine and the Bungle Bungle range.
Mining industry pundits bemoaning the end of the ‘boom' will be pleasantly surprised to know that up to a dozen major projects could go ahead over the coming year.
Clough Engineering's old base at 251 St Georges Terrace is up for sale, with Jones Lang La Salle and Burgess Rawson jointly appointed to manage the transaction.
Rio Tinto subsidiary Argyle Diamonds Ltd has appointed Welshpool-based Macmahon Holdings Ltd as the preferred contractor for the second phase of works at its underground Argyle Diamond Mine.
The state government is seeking to coordinate an ambitious plan for the Kimberley region that would link a proposed $1 billion expansion of the Argyle diamond mine with $100 million worth of investments in the nearby Ord River irrigation area.
Ellendale, a diamond field discovered a quarter of a century ago, is finally to be mined following its sale by the Rio Tinto company Argyle Diamonds to Kimberley Diamond Co.
