Fortescue Metals Group is considering a number of finance options to fund expansion plans at its Chichester Range iron project, with a control estimate expected to be released within a few months.
Perth-based Gindalbie Metals Ltd has started its spending spree for its $1.8 billion Karara iron ore project in Western Australia by placing a $70 million order for key long lead items.
Balcatta-based gold company Zedex Minerals Ltd will boost its interest in Canadian resource company Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc in a bid to become a leading player in the Asia Pacific gold sector.
Subiaco-based GBM Resources Ltd has inked a deal with gold miner Newcrest Ltd to acquire its copper gold assets in the Mount Isa region in a deal worth $2.6 million over the next three years.
First production at Atlas Iron Ltd's Pardoo project has been delayed by to December after it lodged an appeal over conditions recommended by the Environmental Protection Authority.
Subiaco-based Summit Resources Ltd plans to raise over $10 million through a rights issue which will be fully sub-underwritten by its two largest shareholders, Paladin Energy Ltd and Areva NC Australia Pty Ltd.
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Australia's corporate watchdog has launched civil Federal Court proceedings against several companies and individuals linked to Firepower Holdings Group Ltd, claiming shares in the fuel technology group were sold without a prospectus.
Leederville-based Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd has had a heavy day of trade as speculation mounts that a takeover bid by a Russian steel making giant is imminent.
Perth-based Woodside Petroleum Ltd and US company Apache Corp are increasingly likely to strike a gas supply arrangement over the expansion of the Pluto gas project.
Rydges Hotels and Resorts have signed its first property in Kalgoorlie following an agreement with Western Australian company Primewest Management Ltd.
While new motor vehicle sales rose by 1 per cent across the country over the month of June, Western Australia was near the head of the pack of states and territories to record a decline.
Western Australia's chances of being selected as the host of Inpex's $12 billion liquified natural gas plant have been put at risk after the Northern Territory today called an early August election.
Former Carmichael Capital Markets executive chairman Craig McGown and former Woodside executive David Craig have joined the board of West Perth-based based oil and gas play Entek Energy.
Subiaco-based Midas Resources Ltd has signed a cooperation agreement with Chinese company Zijin Mining Group which will allow it to take a sizeable stake in the Da Hong Shan copper project in the Xinjiang Province.
South Perth-based bamboo flooring products company Style Ltd will write down the value of its assets by $1.3 million after exiting from its obligations at the Wanzai plantation in China.
The state's Northwest Shelf continues to deliver good news for US energy company Hess Corporation, which today announced another natural gas discovery in Jurassic and Triassic sandstones.
An updated scoping study into West Perth-based Energy Metals Ltd's Bigrlyi uranium and vanadium project in the Northern Territory has boosted the mine's life from eight years to 12 years.
West Perth-based Equinox Minerals Ltd expects installation and testing of new equipment at its Lumwana copper project Zambia to start in December following a fire at the project's power station a fortnight ago.
HBOS, the UK owner of Perth-based BankWest, today said shareholders agreed to take up 8.29 per cent of its $8 billion rights issue, increasing speculation that Perth-based BankWest could be up for sale.
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Malaga-based engineering company Georgiou Group has been selected by the state government to build a new infrastructure project at the Australian Marine Complex Common User Facility at Henderson.
Perth-based biotechnology company Xceed Capital Ltd will net over $6 million in scrip from selling its majority shareholding in PolyNovo Biomaterials Ltd to a Melbourne company.
Rio Tinto Iron Ore has agreed to pay a levy of up to $300 million over 50 years to the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation to cover present and future land use of the traditional owners' land.
Canning Vale-based Ausdrill Ltd has forecast an extra $370 million in revenue after African miner Gold Fields Ltd extended its contract to cover the life of a mine in Ghana.
The grandson of the late iron ore prospector Peter Wright, a long time business partner of mining tycoon Lang Hancock, has been appointed to Apex Minerals ML's board in what is understood to be his first public company venture.
Traditional owners in the Pilbara region are celebrating a win in the National Native Title Tribunal over Fortescue Metals Group Ltd after proving the company failed to negotiate in good faith over a tenement application.
West Perth-based Key Petroleum Ltd has declared its gas discovery in Tanzania commercially viable with the Kiliwani North field to be developed for local market.
South Perth-based Finbar Group Ltd expects to quadruple its net profit for the 2008 financial year and has forecast early sales revenue for fiscal 2009 from its Domus and Ceresa apartments.
