Mark Beyer

The nickel market is a tough place to be currently but that isn’t stopping Poseidon Nickel and Sirius Resources from pursuing their mining plans.

Mining industry pundits bemoaning the end of the ‘boom’ will be pleasantly surprised to know that up to a dozen major projects could go ahead over the coming year.

Former Leighton Holdings chief executive Wal King has been recruited by Hong Kong-based CITIC Pacific to help deal with problems at its trouble-plagued Sino Iron project.

Calibre Group has won a $23 million contract on the Roy Hill iron ore project, with the work proceeding ahead of the project’s debt funding being finalised.

With Tony Abbott cruising towards The Lodge, it is imperative that he lays out the path forward.

South African miner Gold Fields will splash $US300 million purchasing Barrick Gold’s Granny Smith, Lawlers and Darlot gold mines in the Yilgarn region, near Southern Cross, and plans to integrate t

Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group says it remains focused on debt reduction, despite playing hardball on a proposed asset sale and lifting its annual dividend following a strong surge in profit

Atlas Iron has reported a significant improvement in earnings in the second half of the financial year, but it was not sufficient to offset big write-downs and weak operating profits carried over f

Doric chief executive Peter Iancov has resigned after the diversified contractor decided to defer some of its growth strategies.

Woodside has outlined plans to develop three floating LNG projects off the Kimberley coast, with each likely to be similar in scale to Shell’s $12 billion Prelude development.

Government failures at James Price Point can teach us many lessons, around long-term planning, due process and adapting to change.

Global resources giant BHP Billiton's full-year profit has fallen by 29 per cent to $US10.9 billion ($A12.0 billion), as falling commodity prices outweighed efforts to cut costs.

Premier Colin Barnett's push to keep the Browse gas project onshore has suffered another blow, with lead proponent Woodside recommending, as expected, the construction of a floating offshore plant

Three years after completing a management buy-out, JSW Australia directors Jeff Branson and John Silverthorne have struck an agreement to sell their debt-laden drilling business; but they won’t be

Fortescue Metals Group has attracted an investment of up to $US1.15 billion ($A1.27 billion) fom Taiwan's largest private company, Formosa Plastics Group, to underpin the development of a new iron

Fortescue Metals Group has vowed to focus on reducing its debt by 30 or 40 per cent following the official completion of its $US2.4 billion port expansion at Port Hedland.

Adapting to change is often considered one of the keys to business success, and yacht maker turned sculptor and builder, Glenn Swarbrick, has it in spades.

Ten years ago this month, one of the state’s most debated infrastructure projects opened at the Australian Marine Complex in Henderson. Business News analyses its impact.

A 10-year old commitment by Fortescue Metals Group to the state government has come back to bite the iron ore miner, after it was told it must commence negotiations for third-party access to its Pi

Events of the past week have shown that governments in Perth and Canberra face an enormous task getting their budgets under control, no matter which party is in power.

Trisha Burgess’s small business has achieved a major sales boost this past year without any changes to her product range. All the gains, she says, are due to a banking app.

The cost of refurbishing Muja power station, which was meant to cost taxpayers nothing, has officially hit $331 million.

Increased land tax rates, more rigorous tax compliance, and the introduction of school fees for children of 457 visa holders are among a suite of measures the government has introduced to lift reve

The government plans to take a big step back into the energy market with its gas sector proposal.

The Reserve Bank and currency markets are helping business, but what about Canberra?

Privately-owned contractor Barber Drilling laid off all of its staff on Friday, after being hit by the slowdown in the iron ore sector.

Energy Minister Mike Nahan has lauded the increased transparency he expects will follow the launch today of two gas market reforms, which have raised industry concerns about added costs and excessi

Paladin Energy has completed a heavily discounted capital raising after scrapping the sale of a stake in its flagship African uranium mine after it failed to attract a high enough bid.

Wine buyers looking for a high-quality semillon sauvignon blanc can rest assured that Western Australian wineries are a good place to start.

Office vacancy rates in Perth’s central business district have edged higher while the West Perth rate has jumped sharply, and both sectors face the prospect of even higher vacancy rates as demand r

South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts has made a $430 million offer to win full control of Perth-based Clough, in which it already holds more than 60 per cent of the

Advocates for local council mergers are in danger of over-reaching when they talk up the anticipated benefits.