Junior explorer Dragon Mining has announced plans to delist from the ASX as it progresses its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, while also revealing a $17.5 million capital raising.
Gold explorer GBM Resources has been forced to terminate merger plans with Canadian company WCB Resources after a loan agreement with a funding party fell through.
CBH Group chief executive Andrew Crane is stepping down from the role after eight years at the helm of Australia's largest grain exporter, with the group to immediately begin a search for his successor.
Premier Mark McGowan has officially marked the beginning of the reversal process for the $440 million Roe 8 highway extension project, with a renegotiation process between Main Roads and the project’s proponents set to begin.
Perth businessman David Flanagan has taken on a larger role at aspiring graphite miner Battery Minerals, that of executive chairman, as part of a management restructure ahead of the company’s planned transition to the production phase.
Louis Calvarin has been appointed managing director and chief executive of Avenira.Argent Minerals has appointed current managing director, David Busch, as chief executive.
Six listed companies based in Perth have announced funding deals worth a combined $36.9 million, with the largest being a $20.6 million capital raising by gold explorer Orecorp.
Pilbara Minerals has signed a farm-in deal with Atlas Iron over its Mt Francisco lithium project, and the two companies have also struck a preliminary agreement allowing Pilbara to use Atlas Iron's existing infrastructure to support early shipments from the Pilgangoora project.
Decmil Group has entered into a joint venture agreement with US-based SolarReserve for the construction of a 70-megawatt solar photovoltaic plant in NSW.
An environmental audit on the cancelled Roe 8 highway extension project has found just one minor area of non-compliance in the implementation of management plans by the project’s proponents.
Adam Lamond will return to the helm of the diversified company he established in 2003, after Simon Thomas announced his resignation from Veris, formerly known as OTOC.
Peninsula Energy has announced that John G Simpson will be stepping down as managing director and chief executive. He will be replaced by Wayne Heili who will commence with the company in April.
Potash explorer Agrimin has announced plans to raise up to $13.2 million from investors to fund ongoing work at its Mackay project in Western Australia.
Waste management business Tox Free Solutions has announced its contract for work at Chevron’s Gorgon gas project on Barrow Island will end in June, a year early.
Lepidico has formally rejected rival Lithium Australia’s $23.8 million takeover bid, after an independent expert labelled the offer as neither fair nor reasonable.
AustSino Resources Group has appointed Michael Keemink as executive director. Edward Saunders, current executive chair, will become non-executive chair.
Perth-based Spitfire Materials is seeking to grow its gold exploration portfolio through the acquisition of a private company led by Pilbara Minerals directors Neil Biddle and John Young, in a scrip deal worth $4.7 million.
Perth-based Navigator Resources has announced plans to exit the resources industry by acquiring an Australian pharmaceutical business and relisting on the ASX through the backdoor.
IT company Cirrus Networks has entered into an agreement to acquire Melbourne-based NGage Technology Group in a cash-and-scrip deal worth $2.5 million.
Sheffield Resources has moved to the next stage of progressing its Thunderbird mineral sands project near Derby, after releasing a bankable feasibility study which revealed a development capex of $348 million.
Uranium miner Paladin Energy says it has started arbitration proceedings against its Chinese joint venture partner over complications with its plans to sell a stake in its Langer Heinrich mine.
Rail freight operator Aurizon has brought in former Woodside Petroleum senior manager Tina Thomas as executive vice-president of human resources, as the company undertakes a new organisational structure.
Perth-based explorer Alara Resources has signed an offtake agreement for copper from its Al Hadeetha project in Oman, with the deal including a $US6 million ($A7.8 million) pre-payment.
Birimian has appointed Michael Langford and James McKay as non-executive directors, following the retirement of Winton Willesee and Hugh Bresser from the board.
S2 Resources chairman Jeff Dowling and Clayton Utz partner Stephen Boyle have been named incoming directors of Fleetwood Corporation, while Michael Hardy has retired from board.
Dormant Perth-based biotech company Pharmanet Group will re-emerge as a gold explorer after entering into an agreement to acquire Keras Australia by way of a reverse takeover.
Henderson-based shipbuilder Austal says a modification to a previously awarded contract for littoral combat ships with the US Department of Defense is worth about $US36.6 million ($A47.8 million).
Carnegie Clean Energy has announced plans to raise up to $6 million to fund its share of the development costs of the $20 million Northam solar power project.
