The country's biggest grain exporter, CBH Group, has awarded a United States-based corporation an $80 million contract to build a new locomotive fleet.
UPDATE: Woodside Petroluem chief executive Don Voelte has echoed BHP Billiton in hosing down speculation that the multinational mining giant was about to embark on a takeover bid for the oil and gas producer.
A Japanese consortium has picked up the final assets of failed tycoon Ric Stowe's Griffin Coal, with the purchase of the Bluewaters power stations near Collie.
Perth-based WHL Energy says its heavily oversubscribed $10 million share placement will provide the funds to progress its Seychelles oil and gas project towards farm-out and drilling.
Magellan Metals is preparing to cut its 235-strong workforce down to 40 after it placed its Wiluna lead mine into care and maintenance following the discovery of lead-contaminated mud stuck to a shipping container at Fremantle Port.
The strength of Western Australia's resources sector has been underlined by investors, with the total market capitalisation of the state's resources companies increasing by 40 per cent over the six months to February.
GINDALBIE Metals and its Chinese joint venture partner Ansteel have awarded two significant contracts collectively worth over $63 million for its Karara iron ore project in the Mid West.
Canning Vale-based electrical contracting group EC&M has won two significant electrical and instrumentation contracts, taking its order book for 2011 to around $50 million.
The resources-rich Pilbara remains the most expensive region in which to rent a house in Australia, with rents stuck around $1,650 a week and showing no signs of slipping, according to the latest market analysis from RP Data.
The number of home loans approved in February fell at a greater rate than expected, as the effects of the November rate hike started to hit households.
Sundance Resources says the first stage of its Mbalam iron ore mine in West Africa will cost $US4.6 billion, after releasing a study which confirmed the project's viability.
Perth-based gold miner Focus Minerals says it will raise $40 million to accelerate production at its greenfields Treasure Island gold project near Kalgoorlie, through an institutional placement and share purchase plan.
Iron Ore Holdings has launched a $40 million capital raising to advance drilling programs and technical studies at its Iron Valley, Bungaroo South and other mining projects in the Pilbara.
Lithium miner Galaxy Resources stock has risen, after it said it had discovered new exploration targets at its Ponton rare earths project, 200 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie.
Atlas Iron shares have inched upwards, after the iron ore miner posted record production for March, exporting 547,404 tonnes of direct shipping ore from its Pilbara mines.
MCC Mining has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay mining contractor Thiess $7.3 million over a payment dispute at the Sino Iron project at Cape Preston.
The University of Western Australia has announced internationally-recognised academic Paul Johnson will take up the vice chancellor's post to be vacated by Alan Robson at the end of this year.
Gindalbie Metals and its Chinese joint venture partner, Ansteel, have awarded two significant contracts collectively worth over $63 million for its Karara iron ore project in the Mid West.
Alinta Energy has appointed a new board featuring former chairman Tony Howarth and former Alcoa managing director Wayne Osborn, after shareholders approved a major restructuring that saw the group's assets sold to a private equity consortium.
Perth-based environmental group Carbon Conscious says it is expanding across the Tasman, after it entered into a $NZ11 million carbon forest sink deal with a New Zealand-based energy company.
Perth's median home values have dipped 1.9 per cent over the last quarter to become the second worst performing capital city behind only Brisbane, a new report shows.
