Subiaco-based explorer Triton Minerals has secured a funding facility of up to $20 million over two years with Lone Star Investments, to assist in the development of its Nicanda Hill graphite and vanadium deposit in Mozambique.
Perth-based Doray Minerals has confirmed solid growth in gold production and disclosed lower costs in the December quarter, as it moves toward completing its takeover of Mutiny Gold.
Australia's biggest workforce provider, Skilled Group, has rejected a takeover offer from rival Programmed Maintenance Services, saying it undervalues the company.
One of Western Australia’s last local credit unions, Unicredit, is moving to merge with Sydney-based Teachers Mutual Bank this year, joining a long-term trend towards scale in the lending industry.
QBE Insurance Group has entered into an agreement for the sale of its US agency businesses to California-based Alliant Insurance Services for $US300 million ($A367 million).
A surge in the number of backdoor listings was one of the few positives on the stock market in 2014, and two new deals for technology companies show there is more to come.
The wave of backdoor listings on the ASX in the past year suffered a setback this week, with two deals being cancelled and a third business going into administration.
Lithex Resources has scrapped its planned purchase of internet marketing business Mpire Media, which was the second business Perth entrepreneur Zhenya Tsvetnenko was seeking to list on the stock market.
Liberty Resources is set to proceed with its move into the IT sector, through the acquisition of Cirrus Networks, after taking the extraordinary step of having a board spill to hasten the removal of two directors.
The consumer watchdog is probing Woodside Petroleum's $US2.75 billion purchase of oil and gas assets from US energy company Apache, over concerns the deal could affect the supply of wholesale gas in the Western Australian market and lead to higher gas prices.
West Perth-based junior miner African Energy Resources has farmed out a 51 per cent stake in its Sese coal and power project in Botswana to a Vancouver-based firm for $8 million.
Medical marijuana company Phytotech Medical is set to be the year’s first listing in Western Australia, after taking special steps to deal with last-minute legal concerns by the ASX and keen demand from investors.
Perth-based mining services group Ausdrill has become a substantial shareholder in Titan Energy Services after subscribing for nearly $1 million worth of shares in the Brisbane firm’s capital raising last week.