A sharp fall in the nickel price, the Varanus Island gas explosion and write downs have all contributed to a red calendar year for Minara Resources, which reported a net loss of $19.8 million, down from the previous year's $270.5 million net profit.
Shares in Carnegie Corporation have risen as much as 27 per cent in trade today on the back of the state government investing $12.5 million in the company's new low-emissions power station off the coast of Albany.
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Premier Colin Barnett remains optimistic that Inpex may change its mind over the location of its $15 billion liquefied natural gas project after meeting with the company's senior executives.
Mining entrepreneur Tony Sage has been appointed to the board of Perth-based gold explorer Tianshan Goldfields, taking over from Graham Woolford who has tendered his resignation.
Gold miner St Barbara, which holds operations in Western Australia, expects to extend its half-year loss to some $44 million as a result of write downs and lower carrying values of listed investments.
Engineering and construction company Paladio Group says it is well placed to deliver a profit for fiscal 2009 despite a possible $4 million hit from the suspension of works at the Windimurra Vanadium project.
Administrators for Monarch Gold Mining say the Minjar gold project is likely to be sold within the next few days as a mixture of local and overseas parties express interests in other assets.
Global Construction Services says it will take a more conservative approach to acquisitions as it delivers a 15 per cent increase in its interim net profit of $5.4 million.
Losses from discontinuing operations have hit Clough's bottom line with the engineering and construction company reporting a 30 per cent fall in its interim net profit.
The state government has named Mirvac/Cbus Property as the preferred proponent for the redevelopment of Perth's Old Treasury Buildings following an extensive evaluation process.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA with the support of the WA Government's Department of Industry and Resources.
IN what is already being pegged as the biggest office leasing deal of the year, Chevron has signed a 10-year lease agreement for the entire 14-level Dynons Plaza office tower.
UNIONS and employer groups have become unlikely allies in jointly resisting the federal government's proposed model for occupational health and safety reform.
THREE Western Australian companies servicing the resource sector have managed to defy the economic downturn to report record sales and profits in the half-year to December 2008.
DESPITE the doom and gloom coming from the state's mining sector, the January Deloitte WA Index revealed stock values of miners rose more than 3 per cent, bucking the overall trend.
A PH.D project at the University of Western Australia hopes to change the way houses in bushfire-prone areas are designed by developing a structure that can survive a fire without human intervention.
A LOT of people reckon they work in the best industry in the world and many claim their job is more fun than work, but Robert J Spencer, founder of multinational computer game developer Interzone, can certainly lay claim to having one of the coolest jobs
THE slowdown in new project and construction activity is starting to flow through to engineering and consulting firms, with GHD shedding at least 60 staff from its Perth office.
