Leighton Holdings subsidiary Thiess has won a $166 million contract to provide earthworks and infrastructure at BHP Billiton Iron Ore's Jimblebar mine near Newman.
BHP Billiton has announced it will spend $7.4 billion to expand its Western Australian iron ore operations' capacity to over 220 million tonnes per annum, and has invested another $2.6 billion on its Queensland coal operations.
BHP Billiton is budgeting to spend at least $US80 billion to expand its business over the next five years, after its booming WA iron ore business fuelled the biggest interim net profit ever delivered in Australia.
BHP Billiton says two of its natural gas projects in Victoria will cost the company about $1.1 billion more than expected, after mercury contamination and fabrication issues blew out production timelines.
Perth-based engineering firm LogiCamms has won a $10 milion contract to deliver a new process facility at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold project in South Australia.
Premier Colin Barnett has introduced amended legislation into state parliament to implement the royalty agreement struck with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in June.
BHP Billiton has approved a further $US635 million of capital spending for two expansion projects it is proceeding with at its Pilbara iron ore operations.
Rising market intervention and resources nationalism by governments globally was an understandable trend in times of uncertainty, BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser said today.
The state government expects its royalties agreement with Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to stand even if a proposed joint venture between the two companies doesn't go ahead.
BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, said it had cleared the first US regulatory hurdle in its bid for Canadian company Potash Corp of Saskatchewan.
The royalty agreement reached by the state government with mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton has reduced BHP's underlying profit by US$126 million.
PERTH-BASED surveying and mapping firm McMullen Nolan says it will use the acquisition of mid-tier surveyor DM Gerloff & Associates to build its business outside of metropolitan land development and expand its capabilities of servicing mining and resource
MINING giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have scrapped plans for a single over-arching state agreement with the Western Australian government for their proposed $US116 billion iron ore joint venture in the Pilbara.
MINING giant BHP Billiton has quietly opened a second front in its battle to prevent other miners from accessing its Pilbara iron ore railways, putting it in direct confrontation with the state government.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has won a contract with BHP Billiton subsidiary Nickel West to provide electrical and instrumentation at the Talc Redesign Project.
Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have reached a royalty agreement with the West Australian government for their iron ore operations in the state.
BHP Billiton has joined the debate surrounding the Labor party's use of an American university student's report in to the disparity between the tax payed by mining giants as Treasurer Wayne Swan took another swipe at the sector.
A who's who of Perth's business elite have appeared in a full-page advertisement against the resources super profit tax as BHP Billiton chairman Jac Nasser speaks out for the first time against the controversial tax.
International ratings agency Fitch has indicated that while the Commonwealth's proposed super profits tax on the nation's mining and resources outfits "isn't good news for Australian miners", it will not affect the ratings of these companies.
BHP Billiton has held urgent talks with Mines Minister Norman Moore after it launched an inquiry into the death of a 45-year-old man at its Leinster nickel mine.
Most of the directors in United Minerals Corporation have cashed in their options as part of a $204 million takeover deal with BHP Billiton. Five of the nine directors last week netted a combined $1.4 million from a total of 3.6 million options after acce
BHP Billiton has ruled out a dedicated rail link to its $500 million Yeelirrie uranium project near Wiluna, despite rejecting road-only transport options because of the higher accident risk.
Shares in West Perth-based Otto Energy have surged higher today after it signed a farm-in option deal with BHP Billiton over an oil project in the Philippines, some 10 months after the initial agreement lapsed.
Shares in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have dropped as the mining giants enter the next stage of merging their Pilbara iron ore assets, expected to deliver more than $US10 billion in savings.
BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are remaining quiet over their proposed Pilbara iron ore joint venture, a day before a binding merger agreement is due to be delivered.
BHP Billiton has given the go-ahead to a $US152 million ($A177 million) investment to enhance the processing of ore at its Mount Keith nickel operation in the eastern Goldfields.
Development of BHP Billiton's $1 billion Macedon domestic gas project off Exmouth has moved closer, following the formal start of front end engineering and design work.
THE global financial crisis had a marked impact on Western Australia's engineering contractors during the year as the slowdown forced resources companies to scale back and defer numerous new developments and expansions.
BHP Billiton has settled almost a quarter of its total iron ore volumes at the newly agreed benchmark prices while one-third will be sold at spot and index-based prices.
BHP Billiton Iron Ore and World Vision have teamed up to form a $5 million partnership to boost care and health activities for pre-school aged children in the east Pilbara.
