The private German investor behind last year's purchase of Perth-based RUC Mining Contractors from Murray & Roberts has revealed an unusual multi-million dollar gain on the deal.
The state's workplace safety regulator has initiated legal action against mining companies over work fatalities, under new laws which increased the maximum penalty to $3.5 million.
South Africa's Murray & Roberts has foreshadowed a big loss for the past year with most of it attributed to its former Australian subsidiaries Clough and RUC Cementation.
South Africa's Murray & Roberts is poised to regain control of Perth-based RUC Cementation Mining Contractors while selling its majority stake in another local firm, Insig Technologies.
Italy's Webuild has backed out of a conditional deal to buy struggling engineer Clough, plunging the 102-year old Perth-based company into administration.
Bellevue Gold has engaged Belmont-based RUC Cementation Mining Contractors in a multi-year contract for raise-boring services at its namesake project in the Northern Goldfields.
A joint venture between Perth-based companies Clough and RUC Cementation Mining Contractors, which are both owned by South Africa's Murray & Roberts, has secured two mining contracts in Mongolia.
Saracen Mineral Holdings has named private company Byrnecut as its preferred contractor for a contract, valued at $440 million, for underground mining services at its Carosue Dam gold operation north of Kalgoorlie.
SPECIAL REPORT: The value of investment into WA gold projects is about four times as much as this time last year, while growth in spending on lithium has been even more substantial.
Dacian Gold has formally awarded GR Engineering Services a $107.1 million contract to build processing infrastructure at its Mt Morgans gold project near Laverton.
A local subsidiary of South African company Murray & Roberts is set to be awarded an underground mining services contract for Dacian Gold's Mt Morgans project near Laverton.
