Newland Resources has announced plans for a $6.1 million capital raising to fund the acquisition of coal exploration tenements in the Bowen Basin in Queensland and repay a $700,000 loan.
Shares in Southern Cross Goldfields have closed up 10 per cent after the company announced a substantial increase in the JORC compliant resource for its Battler gold deposit in Southern Cross.
South Perth-based Kasbah Resources has announced plans to raise $24 million to fund accelerated exploration and development at its tin project in Morocco.
West Perth-based Marengo Mining has signed a financing and off-take deal with a Chinese construction and engineering group for its copper, molybdenum and gold project in Papua New Guinea.
The Finance Sector Union has accused Westpac of making job cuts to boost the banks bottom line after the company announced it will be moving 120 jobs offshore.
Houston-based Oil States International is planning a push into the Australian market through a friendly $651 million takeover of The MAC Services Group which operates six mining camps in WA and Queensland.
A Perth couple who set up a charity to help provide meals for homeless people in inner-city Perth have been named the winners of the 2010 John Curtin Medal.
The median house price in WA dropped 4 per cent in the three months to September to $480,000, according to fresh figures from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
The managing director of Synergy, the state's main energy retailer, Jim Mitchell has decided to step down at the end of his current contract in April next year.
Cape Lambert Resources has extended its negotiations in a deal to formalise ownership and access rights to key infrastructure in Sierra Leone to transport iron ore from Marampa.
The share price of West Perth-based Encounter Resources has surged more than 27 per cent after the company announced it had discovered additional high-grade copper intersections from its Yeneena project near Newman.
Perth-based family business Kailis Organic Olive Groves has successfully completed the acquisition of Great Southern Olive Assets as the company looks to expand onto the world market.
Perth-based Coalspur Mines has completed an $80 million capital raising via placements to strategic and institutional investors and will use the funds to move forward its application to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The WA state director of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Robin McClellan is leaving the organisation to take up a position with ExxonMobil.
Canning Vale-based Ausdrill has been awarded a mining services contract by Central Ashanti Gold for the company's gold project in Ghana which is expected to generate $US300 million in revenue over 5 years.
West Perth-based diversified resources company Reed Resources has received approval from the Department of Environment and Conservation to start construction of a minerals processing plant at the Mt Marion Lithium project near Kalgoorlie.
Shares in Subiaco-based Syndicated Metals have jumped more than 27 per cent today after the company announced its has discovered new zones of high grade copper and gold mineralisation at its Mount Remarkable project in north-west Queensland.
The Perth Convention Bureau has warned the announcement of a six-star boutique hotel at the Old Treasury Building will fall short of satisfying demand for new hotel rooms required each year.
A DRAMATIC escalation in wages in the offshore oil and gas sector is contributing to increased uncertainty across other parts of the nation's resource industries, according to the Australian Mines and Metals Association.
The member for Southern River Peter Abetz has introduced a Private Members Bill into state parliament aimed at providing small business franchisees greater protection from rogue franchisors.
