CORPORATE reputations of mining companies have become increasingly important as society tries to grapple with costs and benefits of producing resources.
Gold explorer Alchemy Resources has intersected wide intervals of gold mineralisation during an eight-hole RC drilling program at its Magnus Copper-Gold project in the Murchison.
Following three tough months Wesfarmers and the state's miners helped the market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies, which comprise the Deloitte WA Index, to bounce 5.3 per cent higher in July to $148.4 billion.
A $40 BILLION liquefied natural gas supply contract has crowned a sustained investment push into Western Australia by South Korean companies determined to shore up their long term supplies of key commodities.
Sandfire Resources has defied today's market trend to record a modest increase in its share price after announcing a substantial increase in the size of its DeGrussa copper deposit.
OZ Minerals’ $100 million plunge on shares in Western Australian copper explorer Sandfire Resources has refocused attention on what is shaping as Australia’s next great copper province.
Energy giant Shell has struck its first third party supply deal for liquefied natural gas from its planned $US5 billion Prelude floating LNG project off the Kimberley coast.
The proposed merger of Aurox Resources and Atlas Iron moved a step closer this week with an Independent Expert deeming the transaction "fair and reasonable".
If bets were placed on the chances of pigs flying over Perth, or a former president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions criticising employers for paying their workers high wages, it's a fair chance that the flying pigs would get shorter odds.
Australian mining executive John Carr-Gregg, tragically killed in a plane crash in West Africa, has been remembered as a gentleman and family man at a memorial service in Sydney.
The ASX Appeal Tribunal has overturned the Exchange's earlier decision to ban the relisting of shares in two Tony Sage companies, International Petroleum and Global Iron.
Swick Mining Services has announced a downgrading of its revenue guidance for the 2009-10 financial year as a result of delays in several drilling programs.
Aspiring manganese miner Mesa Minerals has cancelled its extraordinary general meeting scheduled for tomorrow after significant shareholder Mighty River International requested resolutions for the meeting be withdrawn.
Fox Resources says it is in talks with shareholder Jinchuan Group to extend a current offtake deal and a possible $20 million funding agreement for its Radio Hill nickel-copper project in the Pilbara.
Western Australia's title as the resources state was further cemented today with new figures showing it accounted for 79 per cent of the $109.6 billion committed to projects across the country.
Shares in Balcatta-based minerals tester Ammtec have soared 30 per cent after it received a $123 million takeover offer from laboratory services and chemicals producer Campbell Brothers.
The Northern Territory government has launched a concerted campaign to poach business from Western Australia and rival Perth as a regional oil and gas capital.
