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Atlas Iron has announced a shuffle of chairs in its boardroom, with David Flanagan set to become non-executive chairman by August, while Ken Brinsden has been appointed to take over Mr Flanaga

Uncertainty about the European debt crisis and the introduction of a carbon tax in Australia is hampering the confidence of small businesses, while the number of small firms going bankrupt jumped b

Strength in Western Australia’s resources sector has boosted the bottom lines of local engineering and construction contractors Monadelphous, Macmahon and LogiCamms, with Monadelphous being the pic

A joint venture including Leighton subsidiary Thiess has won a $500 million contract to build storage tanks at the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia.

BC Iron has reported a significant boost in interim net profit, on the back of a maiden operational profit from its Nullagine iron ore joint venture with Fortescue Metals Group.

Decmil Group has announced it will build a 200-bed rail camp for Fortescue Metals Group in a deal worth $28 million.

FOR some businesses, timing really is everything.

Nickel miner Mincor has capped a busy six months by nudging back into the black, reporting a $350,000 profit for the six months to December 31.

Perth-based shipbuilder Strategic Marine’s aim to enter the burgeoning European offshore wind farm crew transfer market has received a major fillip, with the firm receiving orders for eight new ves

Two long-awaited and much-debated marina proposals have inched closer to becoming reality, with Cedar Woods’ Mangles Bay getting an environmental thumbs-up, and the state government committing to a

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group will pay Iron Ore Holdings $25 million for the exclusive option to mine the Iron Valley and Weelli Wolli tenements in the central Pilbara, in a deal that cou

Tap Oil has washed its hands of any exposure to legal action surrounding the Harriet gas joint venture, selling its 12.2 per cent stake to a subsidiary of Apache Corporation for $10 million.

Minerals explorer Sheffield Minerals has launched a $10 million capital raising to fund drilling and exploration programs at its Dampier Zircon and Enneabba mineral sands projects.

Doray Minerals has announced an in-principle native title agreement it says will pave the way for the company to be granted a mining lease over its Andy Well gold project in the Murchison.

AUSTRALASIAN Property Investments and Automotive Holdings Group say they have created a new class of investment property with the establishment of a $66 million property syndicate involving five ca

The building and construction industry and retailers have expressed disappointment with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to keep interest rates on hold today, saying the nation’s centr

Former Brockman Resources and BHP Billiton executive Wayne Richards has been appointed managing director of IronClad Mining.

Warren Buffet-backed Canadian company Sterling Crane has acquired Western Australian business Freo Group and its Queensland subsidiary Global Crane in a deal likely to be worth about $160 million.

Open pit mining is set to commence at Gindalbie's $2.57 billion Karara iron ore project in the Mid West, after Downer EDI signed a $570 million mining services contract.

IronClad Mining says it will ramp up construction at its Wilcherry Hill iron ore joint venture, after signing a four-year offtake agreement with a Chinese firm.

New home sales in Western Australia posted their second consecutive month of growth in December, but transactions are still significantly lower than where they were 12 months ago, according to new

Business groups have raised their concerns over today’s decision by Fair Work Australia to increase pay for community and disability service workers by up to 41 per cent, saying it creates huge ris

DESPITE the national 2.1 per cent fall in home prices in the December quarter painting an unflattering picture for the sector, property industry leaders remain optimistic about the year ahead.

Talk of a turnaround in Perth’s property sector after prices rose slightly in November has been all but quashed by new data out today, with home values falling 2.1 per cent over the December quarte

Engineering and contracting group Monadelphous has won two new contracts worth a combined $180 million with Rio Tinto and Chevron, a week after announcing it would exceed its initial profit gu

A joint venture between Thiess and Belgium’s Besix SA has won a $260 million contract at Chevron’s Wheatstone liquefied natural gas project.

Silver Lake Resources has is planning a third gold production base in Western Australia, after annoucing an agreement to acquire the Phillips River Mining's Great Southern gold tenements by wa

A LACK of supply will be the big issue for Perth’s office market in 2012, with record-high office take-up figures sending the CBD vacancy rate spiralling to its lowest level in three years.

PERTH’S western suburbs have emerged as an indicator of the general malaise experienced in the residential property market in 2011 with properties taking upwards of two months to sell, according to

Western Australia’s resources sector has applauded the now bi-partisan support for Sunday trading, saying the added vibrancy from more open shops may help attract more migrants from the eastern sta

The state government has named a consortium between Brookfield Multiplex and Georgiou Group and another between Leighton and Broad alongside construction heavyweight John Holland on its shortlist f

Newly-installed state Labor Leader Mark McGowan has confirmed the party will support the introduction of Sunday trading and will not revoke any approvals for uranium mines in Western Australia, in