News Articles for Ragnar Metals

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Kylie Maj, Steve Formica, Adam Handley, Shane Hartwig, Alwyn Vorster, Kellie Davis, Zac Komur and Jennifer Purdie.

Ragnar Metals chair Steve Formica has been appointed non-executive chair of junior gold miner Kaiser Reef.

Ragnar Metals and Jadar Resources are conducting due diligence on tenements across the Pilbara region ahead of potential moves into the WA lithium fore.

Our board moves wrap includes Juan Santamaria, Marcelino Fernandez Verdes, Adolfo Valderas, Angel Muriel, Dale Ginn, Robert Jewson, Phil Warren, Mark Ewing, Greg Boulton, David Turvey, Craig Hart, Richard Little, Sean Gregory, Robert Klug, Abdullah Mwinyi, Jessamyn Lyons, Julia Beckett, Shaun Menezes, and Ian Hobson.

Clive Brown has retired as non-executive director of CI Resources.

Our daily board moves wrap includes Mark Hancock, Kenneth Keogh, Michael Rennie, Geoffrey Morgan, Milan Jerkovic, Emmanuel Correia, Charis Law, David Riekie, Steve Formica, and Sara Kelly.

A summary of last week's smaller deals that did not get included in our daily news coverage.

Norwood Systems has closed its partially underwritten one-for-four entitlement offer, raising $1 million. Valid applications were made for $289,786 of shares, at 0.3 cents a share.

A Wangara-based renewable technology company is seeking to list on the ASX through the reverse takeover of dormant Perth company Axxis Technology.

Nicholas Halliday has joined ATC Alloys as non-executive director.Gary Lethridge has been appointed non-executive chair of Helix Resources.

The transformation of Drake Resources into a stock riding the global cyber security boom is reaching its final stages, with a shareholder meeting to approve the reverse takeover of Israeli firm Genome expected in November. Genome are also about to release a mobile version of their unique technology that finds human weeknesses in IT systems.

West Perth based explorer Drake Resources is now about to officially become a technology company after completing extensive due diligence on Israeli based cyber security firm Genome Technology Ltd. Both Drake and Genome have completed their respective due diligence programs and a reverse takeover of Genome by Drake will now occur.

Israel-based materials company Dotz Nano has joined the wave of tech firms from that country seeking to raise capital in Australia via a listing on the ASX.

The developer of a gun safety device has become the fifth Israeli company in the technology or medical cannabis sectors to pursue a listing on the ASX through either an IPO or a reverse takeover of a moribund WA mining company.

An ill-considered, ill-advised and poorly executed plan to replace the Directors of Drake Resources failed to even secure the votes of the people that proposed it this week. A motion to roll the Drake board garnered just 3,333,666 out of the 432,477,198 votes cast. Neither the proponents or the proposed new directors attended the meeting to argue their case.

West Perth based Drake Resources has made the popular leap from mining to technology with the acquisition of Israeli based cyber security firm Genome Technologies that boasts a unique proprietary algorithm that “profiles” client company employees in order to assess their cyber security risk. The deal is worth around $11m and Drake says the cyber security market will grow to $177b in 5 years.

Shares in West Perth-based Drake Resources have doubled in value on news the company is planning to exit the resources industry by acquiring an Israeli tech company for $11 million.

Drake Resources CEO Jason Stirbinskis discusses Drake's diverse mineral exploration portfolio around the world with Matt Birney on Bulls N Bears Radio.

Local artisanal miners in West Africa point to 14 potential new gold bearing sites at Drake's Seimana project.

New prospect only 50km from Voisey Bay style Granmuren Nickel discovery

Historic Scandinavian copper zinc precinct set to benefit from modern exploration techniques

The appointment of Mineral Resources CEO Chris Ellison as the honorary consul for New Zealand piqued my interest in this unusual role – the official but unpaid representation of a nation.

Business leader Chris Ellison joins an eclectic elite with his appointment as New Zealand's honorary consul in Western Australia, joining 44 other local representatives of foreign nations in what h

In the first of a quarterly series on executive remuneration, we find that listed companies of all sizes have started cutting chief executive salaries but are still designing packages that offer plenty of upside.

Drake Resources has announced the appointment of former Phillips River Mining boss Jason Stirbinskis as its new chief executive.

Drake Resources and Panoramic Resources have joined forces to explore for base and precious metals, primarily in Scandinavia.

North Perth resources explorer Drake Resources Ltd has entered into a conditional agreement with Aura Energy Limited to sell the company's uranium tenements.

4,950,000 ordinary fully paid shares will be released from escrow on the 31 March 2006

215,000 ordinary shares are due for release from escrow on 15 July 2005.

The boom in flexible staffing is currently growing at 20 per cent, according to a recent survey by recruitment company Drake.

THE average employee now spends less than four years with the same organisation, according to a survey by Drake Management Consulting.