Fraser Beattie

Copper miner Metallum is selling its Chilean assets and restructuring its board, after determining that it wouldn’t be viable to restart operations at the El Roble project in the short or medium term.

Local technology company DTI Group has won a $5.3 million contract to supply its video surveillance systems to the manufacturer building trains for Sydney’s Metro Northwest project.

MZI Resources is set to begin operating its $70 million Keysbrook mineral sands project near Serpentine, with development work due to wrap up next week.

Excelsior Gold says a revised ore treatment agreement with Norton Gold Fields will remove an upfront $12.5 million payment for a milling allocation, with the savings to provide flexibility to further develop its Kalgoorlie North gold project.

General Mining Corporation has confirmed the viability of earning a 50 per cent stake in Galaxy Resources’ Mt Cattlin tantalum project, after an independent review found it would cost $14.7 million to bring the project back into operation.

Jose Martins has resigned from his position as chief financial officer at Ausdrill to take on the same role at Macmahon Holdings.

Angie Paskevicius, the chief executive of non-for-profit drug and alcohol support service Holyoake, has been named the 2015 Telstra Western Australia business woman of the year.

The director of three Perth-based website development and digital marketing companies has been convicted in the District Court of using his position dishonestly to gain an advantage.

The state government has revealed four possible locations for a new public secondary school in Perth’s western suburbs, but the opposition says the plans are well behind schedule.