DEALS this year with South Africa’s third largest platinum producer, Lonmin, and Perth-based companies, Platinum Australia and Helix Resources, have underscored the state of flux in the world platinum scene.
WHEN the Perth Mint introduced its first platinum coin in 1988, little did it expect to retail the world’s largest selling platinum bullion coin issue for the next seven years.
US police are carrying the day’s wanted list in their pockets, mining industry personnel can refer to daily drilling reports out on the road, and researchers are throwing away paper survey forms.
A UK-based entrepreneur and former researcher is on a crusade to secure strategic and financial assistance within Australia for companies looking to benefit from biotechnology projects.
Much is at stake for Western Australia’s energy industry and its major customers as they wait for Ken Michael’s draft decision on third party access to the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline.
A DEMONSTRATION plant producing electrolytic manganese dioxide, the main ingredient in alkaline batteries, has been commissioned at Murdoch University.
INVESTOR interest has swamped another WA junior explorer preparing to list on the Australian Stock Exchange, prompting the directors of Hamill Resources to announce they are confident of closing their float prospectus almost
WHILE futuristic advances in telecommunications, vehicle technology and medical research are publicly heralded on a regular basis, a group of researchers is quietly saving the mining industry millions of dollars each year.
WHILE talks to implement the Kyoto Protocol broke down last year over disagreement on carbon reduction processes and trading, governments and companies have remained busy developing projects, policies and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
GOING by the numbers, the WA resources industry’s March quarter was steady as she goes, with revenue and production growth very much in line with predictions.
WHILE other resources companies are reinventing themselves in new industries to sweeten the bottom line for investors, Amadeus Petroleum is diversifying just a little into applied technology, energy-related biotechnology processes
AS it awaits impending production from its Gocerler gas field and pipeline project in Turkey, Amity Oil has changed its name from Amity Oil NL to Amity Oil Limited, and will be listed as not only an Australian gas explorer but also a producer.
