Mark Beyer

Mount Gibson Iron managing director Luke Tonkin, fresh from effectively completing the acquisition of Aztec Resources, has played down the immediate prospect of more takeovers in the junior iron ore sector.

Consulting engineers Connell Wagner have lost their contract on Fortescue Metals Group's $3.7 billion Pilbara iron ore project after a dispute over fees.

After spending eight years and $33 million developing its pearl farming business in the Northern Territory, Perth company Arafura Pearls is hoping it is finally ready to deliver profitable returns.

Aquila Resources and Paladin Resources provide stunning examples of the huge value that can flow from share options when companies achieve large and sustained increases in their share price.

Perth companies Monadelphous and Macmahon have a lot in common. They both service the booming resources sector, have about 3,000 staff, reported similar profits in 2006, achieved strong shareholder returns over the past three years, and have a similar mar

Health supremo Neale Fong has retained his status as Western Australia’s highest-paid public sector employee, followed by the chief executives from a clutch of public trading enterprises.

Iconic smallgoods producer D'Orsogna typifies the challenges facing food manufacturers in WA, which are refining their strategies in response to an increasingly competitive market.

Rio Tinto has used the official opening of its HImselt pig iron plant at Kwinana to predict that five commercial HIsmelt plants could be in operation within the next decade.

The Bunbury Port Authority has negotiated an agreement with woodchip exporter Hansol PI that is designed to allow both woodchips and coal exports to proceed throught the port.