Mining

Singapore-listed resources construction services firm AusGroup has made a key step towards listing on the ASX, signing a conditional agreement to acquire two Malaysian resort development companies

Continental Coal has completed an $8 million financing arrangement with South African mining company Village Main Reef.

Small to medium businesses looking to get involved in supplying the resources sector are being hampered by a lack of access to finance, new research shows.

Fortescue Metals Group is trying to boost its permanent Aboriginal workforce as the company moves from a construction phase into production.

Falling commodity prices and lower than expected Chinese gross domestic profit drove down the total market capitalisation of WA’s listed companies by 2.6 per cent in April, combining with a weaker

Engineering and construction contractor Clough says it is breaking new ground in a joint venture with South Korea's Coens Energy, to provide commissioning services for onshore and offshore oil and

Workers at a Rio Tinto subsidiary in NSW are threatening industrial action to protect job security and protest against "anti-union proposals".

Gold miner Silver Lake Resources has settled a dispute with engineering contractor Pacer Corporation for works on the Tuckabianna gold project in the Murchison.

Avalon Minerals has announced it will purchase a copper-iron prospect in Sweden from Hannans Reward for $4 million.

Greater demand from miners and the New Zealand dairy industry has helped explosives and chemicals supplier Orica increase its profits by six per cent.

Prominent Perth business identity Tony Sage has continued to scale back his commitments, today announcing his resignation from oil and gas explorers African Petroleum and International Petroleum, f

Fortescue Metals Group has officially opened its Firetail iron ore mine in the Pilbara today, part of a wider $3.2 billion development.

The federal opposition doubts new revenue projections for Labor's mining tax, after an independent body said it would raise just $800 million in its first year.

Perth-based Gunson Resources has become the latest junior mining company to cut pay rates and boardroom numbers in a trend demonstrating the increasingly difficult operating environment for the sec

In the second of this year’s quarterly series on executive remuneration, we find one conspicuous exception to the tighter salary packages on offer.

Cleveland Mining Company is assessing its legal options after stockbroker DJ Carmichael failed to complete a $1 million tranche of a share placement.

BC Iron and Cleveland Mining Company have taken the first steps to securing the first three projects under the iron ore miners’ Brazilian strategic alliance.

Shedding light on the social impact of Western Australia’s remarkable growth will be a priority focus for the new economics research centre at Curtin University.

For Perth-based contractor ECM, reports of a slowdown in mining and LNG project construction were little cause for concern.

Alcoa has announced it will review its alumina refining system, including its facilities in Western Australia, as the global aluminium giant seeks to cut costs in a weak industrial metals market.

Perth-based information and communications engineer Titan ICT Consultants has signed an agreement with a US-based group to enhance its underwater fibre optics services for the oil and gas sector.

Mining contractor MACA remains optimistic about its prospects of revenue growth in financial year 2013, despite losing a significant contract after Focus Minerals halted its Laverton operations earlier this week.

Arrium is considering selling or dumping businesses in its loss-making steel division, raising the prospect of more heavy job cuts.

Premier Colin Barnett has outlined three reasons the government wants to push ahead with acquiring land at James Price Point, despite Woodside shelving its original plan for the Browse gas project.

Oil and gas exploration play Pura Vida Energy will tap investors and financiers for up to $12 million, to fund the ramp-up of drilling activities at its newly-acquired Nkembe block, off the coast o

Focus Minerals has put its Laverton gold mine on stand-by, after a review of operations found the project is no longer commercially viable due to increasing costs and the falling gold price.

Gindalbie Metals has secured an agreement for a second $30 million loan from its joint venture partner in the Karara magnetite iron ore development, after delays in the project’s production ramp up

Waste management technology company Tox Free Solutions has expanded its footprint on Australia’s east coast, acquiring three related firms for $85 million.

Endeavour Mining has sold its 38.5 per cent stake in Toronto-listed Namibia Rare Earths for $5.3 million.

NRW Holdings’ joint venture with indigenous group Eastern Guruma has won a $180 million deal at Rio Tinto’s Nammuldi iron ore operation in the Pilbara.

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has opened its $US2.2 billion Argyle underground diamond mine in the eastern Kimberley.

Woodside Petroleum has announced a new agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to lay out an action plan to develop the Browse gas field off the Western Australian coast with floating processing technolog