JUNIOR bauxite miner Bauxite Resources has taken a key first step toward establishing a downstream alumina processing industry in Western Australia after locking in a major Chinese partner.
URANIUM mining, albeit at trial scale only, is set to resume in Western Australia for the first time in more than a decade, heralding a new era for the state’s rejuvenated uranium industry.
It was a case of the familiar and the faceless at yesterday's meeting of creditors owed over $1 billion by Rick Stowe's failed Collie coal and power producer Griffin Coal.
WESTERN Australia’s reputation as a world leader in mining-related research continues to grow despite the ongoing effects of last year’s global economic slowdown.
Finding a buyer for the Collie coal operations of Ric Stowe’s Griffin Coal within two weeks was completely unrealistic, administrator Brian McMaster said today.
JUST months after its creation, South Perth-based offshore oil and gas support specialist GO Marine Group is planning a $300 million assault to become Australia’s biggest offshore services fleet operator.
Despite widespread predictions of doom and gloom in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, there were more ups than downs in a year in which WA led the rest of the country.
IF there is one phrase to sum up 2009, it is liquefied natural gas, for it was undoubtedly the year that LNG became the main game in town and the virtual saviour of business confidence and Treasury projections.
COMETH the hour, cometh the man, as the saying goes.And for Western Australia’s key export industry, the hour certainly came early in 2009, and with it a handful of key executives took the opportunity to make their mark.
AFTER the uncertainty of 2008, investing in infrastructure to boost confidence in the economy was a primary objective of both state and federal governments during 2009.
WESTERN Australia may have proved its resilience in 2009 by bouncing back from the financial crisis to lead Australia’s economic recovery, but it still endured its fair share of disasters during the year.
BHP Billiton has announced its exit from the mothballed Ravensthorpe nickel mine on the south coast, agreeing to sell the project ot Canada’s First Quantum Minerals for $US340 million.The mining
WORK on the $4 billion Oakajee port and rail project is gathering speed as proponent Oakajee Port & Rail pushes toward completing bankable feasibility studies by the end of March.
GERALDTON would become the state’s leading export gateway under an audacious $4.6 billion plan unveiled by the Geraldton council for a massive new interconnected rail network linking with the Oakajee deepwater port.
Average Western Australian households are facing an extra 21 per cent increase in electricity charges between now and July 2011 under tariff hikes approved by the Economic Regulation Authority.
For all the clout that multinationals Chevron and Shell might normally expect to wield, it is clearly Woodside boss Don Voelte who wears the pants when it comes to the Browse LNG venture in the Kimberley.
Woodside chief Don Voelte today welcomed the federal government's strict deadline for moving forward with development of the giant Browse gasfield as "brilliant" and "a shot in the arm" for the people of the Kimberley.
STANDING out from the crowd can be a blessing or a curse.For Perth mining services group Mineral Resources, the experience has definitely been more Bill Gates than Michael Jackson.
