Dan Wilkie

Chile-focused copper explorer Hot Chili has secured $11.7 million to continue development of its Productora copper project in Chile.

The Department of Housing has awarded a five-year, $13.5 million information technology contract to WA-based firm ZettaServe.

A Perth-based technology group says it has solved the riddle of providing satellite communications in Western Australia’s most remote areas by creating a mobile platform rugged enough to get there.

Developer and fund manager Aspen Group has put its 70-hectare Dunsborough Lakes Estate up for sale.

Nickel miner Panoramic Resources has exceeded its production guidance for the 2013 financial year, on the back of an 18 per cent rise in output in the June quarter.

Prominent company director Ian Middlemas has been given the all-clear to chair the board of Aviva Corporation, after receiving the support of a majority of shareholders at a general meeting today.

Stockbroking firm Euroz has lodged a net profit of $6.3 million, just over half of its net profit in the previous year, after enduring what it described as extremely challenging conditions in equit

Just under 40 jobs are set to go as international gold miner Gold Fields makes the move from owner-operated mining to a contracting model at its Agnew underground mine east of Kalgoorlie.

Northern Star Resources says its record production during the 2013 financial year largely offset the impact of lower gold prices and led to a record profit, but it hasn’t been enough for the miner

Cleveland Mining shares have gained slightly after the miner was granted a licence to construct a carbon in leach (CIL) processing plant at its Premier gold mine in Brazil.

Apartment developer Finbar has forecast another record profit, its seventh consecutive year of profit growth.

Water infrastructure group GFR-Masters of Water has appointed prominent WA executive John Langoulant as an independent director.

Biofuels developer Algae.Tec has signed on with refining group Biodiesel Industries Australia to refine algal oil from the Perth-based company’s biofuel production facility near Sydney.

Kagara Mining’s distressed asset firesale has hit a speed bump, with the purchaser of the collapsed base metals miner’s remaining Queensland mines missing a deadline to pay $6 million worth of depo

The state’s peak business representative group says the coalition’s plans to cut $1 billion in red and green tape by rolling back Labor policies, including the carbon tax and the minerals resource

Developer and fund manager Aspen Group has announced a $6.2 million writedown of its investment portfolio, driven by a drop in value of its workers accommodation village in Karratha.

Africa-focused coal explorer Lemur Resources is urging shareholders to reject a $19 million takeover offered by UK-based Bushveld Minerals.

Fabrication, construction and services firm AusGroup has announced a $36 million contract win with Alcoa for works at the global aluminium giant’s Kwinana, Pinjarra and Wagerup refineries.

Fortescue Metals Group says its Pilbara rail network is at capacity and any move to allow Brockman Mining access would result in reduced state iron ore royalties and federal taxes, and ultimately l

Regis Resources is pressing ahead with plans to expand its processing facility at the Rosemont gold project, despite prevailing weakness in the gold market.

Creditors for collapsed Perth building firm Gavin Construction are owed around $20 million, according to the company’s administrator.

Forge Resources has picked up $8.5 million by selling a part of its stake in the Balla Balla magnetite iron ore project in the Pilbara to its joint venture partner, New Zealand’s Todd Corporation.

Perth-based biofuels developer Algae.Tec has signed on with New South Wales power generator Macquarie Generation to build an algae carbon capture and biofuels production facility alongside a 2640 m

Prominent Perth business identity John Garland has officially launched a new investment fund aimed at international entrepreneurs and business people keen to move to Australia.

Hannans Reward and Avalon Minerals are embroiled in a dispute over $2 million Hannans says it is owed as consideration for the sale of the Discovery Zone copper-iron prospect in northern Sweden.

OM Holdings has finalised a $US315 million project financing facility for its Ferro Alloy smelting project in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman and chairman Michael Chaney have paid tribute to company founder Geoff Donaldson, who passed away last week aged 99.

The total value of Western Australian listed companies fell for the fourth consecutive month in June, a result described as “sombre” by analysts at Deloitte.

The City of Perth is set to introduce tighter performance measures for infrastructure projects in a bid to ensure they are delivered on time and on budget.

New home sales surprisingly dipped by 10 per cent in Western Australia in May, but turnover of new housing stock remains significantly higher than 12 months ago.

Shares in Viento Group have bucked the falling trend on the ASX today, after Calibre Group director and co-founder Ray Munro was announced as its new chairman.

NSW-based engineering group ODG Haden has won a $14.2 million contract for works on the Public Transport Authority’s passenger rail network.