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An in-depth study profiling indigenous employment practices in Australia has thrown down a challenge.

Indigenous businesses in WA generated more than $1 billion in revenue last year and the total is set to rise.

Henderson-based contractor Civmec has won a suite of new work with BHP, Subsea 7, and Roy Hill.

A new study has highlighted the lack of progress in closing the ‘indigenous employment gap' in Australia and the near complete absence of indigenous people from senior management.

Our board moves wrap includes Morne Engelbrecht, Malcolm Broomhead, John Mogford, and David Hall.

After poring over its geological data, Tambourah Metals has lit up a handful of nickel, zinc and gold targets at its Achilles project, 200km north of Laverton in WA. The explorer plans to start drilling during the second or third quarter of 2022. Reprocessing of geophysical figures has identified a deep-seated structure whilst a data review has revealed historical gold and zinc hits.

A mega-merger between Woodside Petroleum and BHP's oil and gas business has received overwhelming shareholder approval at an AGM in Perth this afternoon.

Woodside is awaiting shareholder approval to crystalise a merger with BHP's petroleum business following clearance from a government administrator.

BHP has signed a $9.2 million contract with Aboriginal business Karlka FenceWright and pledged to more than double its annual spending with the sector.

Surefire has used a historical data review to light up 15 priority gold and nickel targets at its newly granted Perenjori West tenure, 300km northeast of Perth. The under explored tenure lies within the West Yilgarn nickel-copper-PGE province that has been the recent focus of intense exploration following the discovery of Chalice Mining's world-class Julimar PGE deposit.

Mining software developer K2fly has sealed a one-year deal worth $2.12 million with BHP to roll out its ground disturbance solution data management system to the mega-miner's iron ore operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The company now provides its ground disturbance solution to the three biggest iron ore players in WA, with Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group also on the roll call.

An influx of approximately 8,000 workers could return to Perth's CBD as BHP, Chevron and Woodside look to encourage hybrid work models.

A pit re-optimisation, the inclusion of vanadium credits and a change of plant location has turbo-charged Toro Energy's plan for its WA based Lake Maitland uranium project, leading to a potential 48 per cent hike in uranium production over the life of mine to 23.5 million pounds from 15.8 million pounds and potential vanadium oxide production of 12.2 million pounds.

Coda Minerals has extended the central bornite zone of the Emmie iron oxide-copper-gold deposit within its Elizabeth Creek copper project in South Australia's Gawler Craton. The explorer says recent drilling has intersected significant widths of bornite and chalcopyrite mineralisation. Importantly, the results materially extend the bornite zone discovered 100m to the southeast and support the potential for further mineralisation to the south.

Pandemic-related labour shortages have caused headaches for another big miner, with BHP lowering guidance forecasts for copper and nickel.

New data from Rio Tinto has highlighted the WA government's reliance on a handful of big miners, with Rio alone paying 10 per cent of the government's total income last year.

Coda Minerals is finding further potential at its flagship Elizabeth Creek copper project in SA's world-class Gawler Craton. The latest drill hole intersected a distinct copper-rich zone, indicating a possible southeast expansion of the interpreted IOCG mineralisation. It says a geologically distinct, copper-rich ‘bornite' dominated zone was intercepted and an independent re-evaluation of the emerging area demonstrates its potential for more.

BHP contracts lead Sepideh Nicholson, who came to Australia as a refugee when she was a teenager, is calling on employers to create inclusive workplaces or risk losing diversity.

At least seven potash plays plan to produce the fertiliser from sun-dried brine or solar-dried ponds.

Although small by global standards, there's upside emerging for WA potash producers.

WA has a $40 billion investment pipeline in oil and gas, while the Browse project may be gaining momentum.

WA's closed border policy is creating barriers for business, with recent moves by Wesfarmers a possible portent of major change.

BHP pleased investors with first-half earnings, but Australian share market participants traded warily as Russia threatens the stability of Europe.

Woodside's new leadership team will be split across Perth and Houston and include five BHP executives, in line with the merged entity's elevated global profile.

BHP has increased its interim dividend after reporting a big increase in half-year profit and says higher inflation will be a long-term positive for its business.

BHP has appointed Catherine Tanna as an independent non-executive director from 4 April.

BHP has welcomed MV Mount Tourmaline to its fleet, the world's first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier which will start transporting iron ore between Western Australia and Asia this year.

A rare, once-discarded element prevalent in the Goldfields highlights a cautionary tale about exotic minerals.

Julian Grill has hailed Andrew Forrest as a nation builder in his new book, which provides an account of his contentious lobbying activities on behalf of Fortescue Metals Group in the 2000s.

The state government has managed to strike a deal that promises to satisfy each of the mining giants battling for a larger slice of the port of Port Hedland.

A close contact of the initial COVID-19 case reported from BHP's iron ore operations in the Pilbara has also tested positive for the virus.

BHP has knocked Commonwealth Bank off the ASX top spot as a scheme of arrangement unifying the miner's UK and Australian corporate entities takes effect on the stock exchange.

About 80 workers are isolating at a BHP mine site in Western Australia's Pilbara region after a contractor tested positive to COVID-19.

BHP has been fined $125,000 after a contractor was struck in the neck by a metal shard during maintenance work at Whaleback iron ore mine in September 2017.

BHP remains on track to meet production guidance for the financial year despite pandemic-induced labour constraints, but has flagged further headwinds as Omicron enters the state.

“It has been a busy year and it continues to be,” is how Simon Reed describes current market conditions in Western Australia.A corporate partner at Perth’s top ranked law firm,

BHP has brought on one of CIMIC Group's subsidiaries to oversee a debottlenecking project at the miner's Nelson Point iron ore port in Port Hedland.

BHP plans to acquire and trial four battery electric locomotives for its iron ore rail network in WA, following suit from fellow mining giants.

BHP's South Flank mine site will transition to autonomous haulage, less than a year after the site's first production of iron ore.

Surefire Resources is set to kick off the new year with a fresh bit of kit after picking up close to 160 square kilometres of prospective gold ground, some 300km from Perth. The company says its newly acquired tenement is significantly underexplored and that historical soil sampling delivered grades of up to 1 gram per tonne of anomalous gold.