Native title bodies, miners and government have done good work to set Aboriginal businesses up for success. Without public support, their wings will always be clipped.
K2fly has grown its annual recurring revenue (ARR) for a 13th straight quarter, revealing a 6 per cent jump up to $7.9 million in the company's latest financial disclosure … and it says there is still room to expand. Management says ARR was up 22 per cent on last year's corresponding quarter, while comparative revenue increased by 29 per cent.
Premier Roger Cook will meet with companies including Mitsui & Co on the first day of his mission to Japan, as the government looks to sell its vision for the state's renewable sector.
Our board moves wrap includes Tara Berrie, John Kenny, Brendan Bradley, Stacey Apostolou, Bernard Aylward, Tom Langley, Peter Wall, Patrick Burke, Joc O'Rourke, Ajanth Saverimutto, Tim Manners, Samuel Ekins, Edward Clarke, Darren Palfrey, and Mark Connell.
Rio Tinto and Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation are aiming to approve their first solar farm next year as the first step in building multiple projects in the Pilbara.
Business groups in the Pilbara have called for more investment in affordable housing to help their members recruit staff and take advantage of the looming investment boom in the region.
Rio Tinto anticipates only a small increase in Pilbara iron ore production next year after candidly acknowledging the impact of slow environmental approvals and complex Indigenous engagement.
Western Australia's valuer-general has begun a major overhaul of convoluted pastoral rents to build a new valuation leaseholders can work out with “basic mathematics”.
A potential sale is on the cards for a Carnarvon salt mine majority owned by Rio Tinto, although operators say there's no certainty a deal will be struck.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes David Coyne, Lisa Wynne, Jérôme Pécresse, Neil Brodie, Benjamin Carruthers, Ash Colmer, Fiona Payne, Trent Barlett, Stephen Butcher, Rosemarie Myers, Clare Cullen and Paul Lyons.
The trial over billions of dollars of iron ore royalties has been closed for the court to discuss Rio Tinto's confidential information on the Pilbara mines it co-owns with Hancock Prospecting.
Lindian Resources has moved to commercialise its Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea by inking a memorandum of understanding for a possible sales contract with prominent miner Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée. Lindian will complete a feasibility study for its 102-million-tonne deposit within two years, while the companies negotiate a possible sales contract for the high-aluminium oxide product.
Our board moves wrap includes Peter Batten, Chain Yee Tee, Aaron Williams, Wayne Richards, Mark Lochtenberg, Neville Henry, Nicholas Ong, Pauline Gately, Suzan Pervan, Michelle d'Almeida, Andy Hodges, and Steve Allen.
Software provider K2fly has revealed a steady stepladder towards profit-making after its latest financial year report showed healthy revenue of $12.8 million – a jump of 28 per cent on the previous period. The company's positive result was bolstered by a 25 per cent increase in annual recurring revenue up to $7.5 million, putting its three-year compound annual growth rate at 48 per cent.
Anthony Albanese has praised the Pilbara's resources sector for keeping the nation's schools and hospitals running on a flying visit to Australia's iron ore heartland.
Rio Tinto and its joint venture partners have laid the foundations with the Guinea government to build more than 600 kilometres of new rail lines needed for the mammoth Simandou project.
The lobby group for big business has backed up its support for a Voice to Parliament by disclosing its members have substantially boosted their Indigenous employment and procurement.
Rio Tinto has told shareholders it won't be able to meet decarbonisation ambitions without the help of carbon offsets, months after chief Jakob Stausholm expressed regret about the targets he set.
Rio Tinto has reported a big fall in interim earnings and dividends from last year's highs, though its core Pilbara iron ore business fared better than other operations.
Descendants of two WA mining pioneers are gearing up for a legal battle more than a decade in the making over iron ore royalties believed to be worth billions of dollars.
Investigations will continue despite the WA Radiological Council having cleared Rio Tinto over the radioactive capsule that went missing en route from the mining giant's Gudai-Darri mine.
Rio Tinto has reported strong Pilbara iron ore production and upped its annual guidance while also disclosing a doubling in its spend on evaluation of projects in other sectors.
Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will trial hydrogen calcination technology at Yarwun Alumina refinery after a $32.1 million funding boost from the Australian government.
Everest Metals' Rover project is set to be hit with the drillbit this week when Rio Tinto Exploration kicks off a seven-hole, 1400m reverse-circulation (RC) program. The new campaign will target potential pegmatite-hosted lithium mineralisation beneath weathered outcrop at the project's northernmost tenement in the Central Yilgarn region of Western Australia – an area undergoing a resurgence in exploration.
Perth-founded Advanced Navigation and The University of Western Australia will receive a share of $40 million funding ahead of NASA's planned return of astronauts to the moon in 2025.
Still paying the reputational price for blowing up sacred caves, Rio Tinto has told a global mining forum it is driving cultural change across the business.
SRG Global has won $65 million worth of work after its Bugarrba Aboriginal joint venture secured a contract from BHP and it won two contracts in Queensland.
Accommodation developer Fleetwood Australia will provide Rio Tinto with up to $120 million worth of additional rooms at its accommodation village in Karratha.
Rio Tinto has pulled the pin on exploring critical minerals within the state's jarrah forests, hot on the heels of Alcoa's call to enact a ‘no mining zone' around the town of Dwellingup.
An anticipated strategy paper from the federal government outlining a plan to cement Australia's place in the global critical minerals furore has seemingly fallen short of expectations.
