Premier Colin Barnett says he's received serious complaints from the chairmen of three international companies about the federal government's proposed resource super profits tax.
China Magnesium (CMC) has launched an $8 million initial public offer and unleashed a veiled attack on the federal government's resource super profits tax.
Heavily indebted Perth company Coote Industrial has announced a deeply discounted rights issue pitched at just 16 cents per share and the sale of South Spur Rail Services.
The director of Perth-based earth-moving and property company, Pollock Group, Kevin Pollock has been jailed for more than five years following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
Cazaly Resources has announced Asciano subsidiary Pacific National as its preferred rail haulage partner for the Parker Range iron ore project near Southern Cross.
Global miner Vale appears headed for a showdown with Perth-based Aquila Resources over a lucrative quarter stake in the proposed $2.8 billion Belvedere underground coal project in Queensland.
The Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) is pressuring the state government to develop a new live cattle export port facility at Point Torment north of Derby.
Private education provider Navitas and Charles Darwin University have collaborated to submit tenders for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship's Adult Migrant Education Program for the 2011-2014 contract period.
The group behind the discovery of the DeGrussa gold-copper project near Meekatharra has been honoured by the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC).
Transfield Services has won a $200 million contract to manage maintenance and repairs for the WA Department of Housing in what is understood to be a new outsourcing model.
Cazaly Resources has reached an agreement with Leighton Contractors subsidiary HWE Mining, bringing the Parker Range iron ore project at Yilgarn a step closer.
WA civil engineering and construction company Decmil Group has closed its engineering services division after completing the sale of wholly owned subsidiary Novacoat Pty Ltd.
Tox Free Solutions has revised down its earnings projection for the current financal year, blaming restructuring costs and delays in the Gorgon gas project on Barrow Island.
Treasury secretary Ken Henry has challenged the belief that Australia's mining industry saved the nation's economy during the GFC, telling a Senate hearing Canberra's economic policies were more to thank for the survival.
Iron ore developer Australasian Resources announced today that Nicholas Jukes has resigned as a director, just two weeks after Andrew Caruso handed in his resignation as managing director.
The State Government has announced more than $80million will be invested in the State's grain freight network while it continues to develop a long-term business case to address deficiencies in the network.
