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Although small by global standards, there's upside emerging for WA potash producers.

WA has a $40 billion investment pipeline in oil and gas, while the Browse project may be gaining momentum.

WA's closed border policy is creating barriers for business, with recent moves by Wesfarmers a possible portent of major change.

BHP pleased investors with first-half earnings, but Australian share market participants traded warily as Russia threatens the stability of Europe.

Woodside's new leadership team will be split across Perth and Houston and include five BHP executives, in line with the merged entity's elevated global profile.

BHP has increased its interim dividend after reporting a big increase in half-year profit and says higher inflation will be a long-term positive for its business.

BHP has appointed Catherine Tanna as an independent non-executive director from 4 April.

BHP has welcomed MV Mount Tourmaline to its fleet, the world's first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier which will start transporting iron ore between Western Australia and Asia this year.

A rare, once-discarded element prevalent in the Goldfields highlights a cautionary tale about exotic minerals.

Julian Grill has hailed Andrew Forrest as a nation builder in his new book, which provides an account of his contentious lobbying activities on behalf of Fortescue Metals Group in the 2000s.

The state government has managed to strike a deal that promises to satisfy each of the mining giants battling for a larger slice of the port of Port Hedland.

A close contact of the initial COVID-19 case reported from BHP's iron ore operations in the Pilbara has also tested positive for the virus.

BHP has knocked Commonwealth Bank off the ASX top spot as a scheme of arrangement unifying the miner's UK and Australian corporate entities takes effect on the stock exchange.

About 80 workers are isolating at a BHP mine site in Western Australia's Pilbara region after a contractor tested positive to COVID-19.

BHP has been fined $125,000 after a contractor was struck in the neck by a metal shard during maintenance work at Whaleback iron ore mine in September 2017.

BHP remains on track to meet production guidance for the financial year despite pandemic-induced labour constraints, but has flagged further headwinds as Omicron enters the state.

“It has been a busy year and it continues to be,” is how Simon Reed describes current market conditions in Western Australia.

BHP has brought on one of CIMIC Group's subsidiaries to oversee a debottlenecking project at the miner's Nelson Point iron ore port in Port Hedland.

BHP plans to acquire and trial four battery electric locomotives for its iron ore rail network in WA, following suit from fellow mining giants.

BHP's South Flank mine site will transition to autonomous haulage, less than a year after the site's first production of iron ore.

Surefire Resources is set to kick off the new year with a fresh bit of kit after picking up close to 160 square kilometres of prospective gold ground, some 300km from Perth. The company says its newly acquired tenement is significantly underexplored and that historical soil sampling delivered grades of up to 1 gram per tonne of anomalous gold.

BHP will not match Wyloo Metals' bid for Canadian nickel play Noront Resources, clearing the way for the Forrest-backed business to acquire all capital in the company for C$1.10 apiece.

The ACCC will not oppose Woodside's plan to acquire BHP petroleum assets, clearing the way for two of WA's largest natural gas suppliers to merge.

Mining giant Rio Tinto paid more than $1 billion in royalties to four Perth families last year as a result of deals struck by their forebears in the 1960s.

Former BHP group financial controller Graham Tiver has been chosen as Woodside's new chief financial officer and executive vice president.

Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals has bolstered its offer for Noront Resources by some 57 per cent just hours after walking away from unsuccessful détente talks with takeover rival BHP.

BHP and Forrest-backed Wyloo Metals have failed to reach an agreement on mutual takeover target Noront Resources despite weeks of deliberation between the parties.

A dozen WA-linked businesses paid more than a fifth of Australia's corporate tax take between them in the 2020 financial year, with Rio Tinto the nation's top contributor.

Oil and gas supplier Woodside will invest $US5 billion ($7 billion) in low carbon energy by 2030 while still benefitting from its recently-announced merger with BHP's petroleum business.

The Fair Work Commission has ruled against a COVID vaccination mandate applying to coal mine workers in NSW but the ruling is unlikely to have a big impact in Western Australia.

Some major companies have decided the sum of their parts is greater than the whole.

Unemployment is at record lows in WA, but pressure from mass resignations and outbound travellers is looming.

Aboriginal groups are vigorously opposed to government reform efforts, leaving challenges for industry.

A $16.5 billion plan to develop the Scarborough gas field and Pluto Train 2 has been approved by Woodside Petroleum, the biggest LNG investment sanctioned in WA in a decade.

Limitless WA: Autonomous trains and trucks in the resources industry have brought benefits to Western Australia beyond productivity.

BHP has defended its climate strategy despite involvement in Woodside's contended Scarborough LNG project, which has been subject to increasing environmental campaigns.

Fortescue Metals shares had their biggest gain of the year but the Australian market slumped on concerns of how US authorities will respond to the biggest rise in inflation in 31 years.

Discussions between BHP and Andrew Forrest-backed Wyloo Metals are set to continue until the end of November as the parties look to reach an agreement on sought after Noront Resources.

Investors have continued to shy away from the ASX this week as some wonder whether rising inflation could finally be followed by wage increases.

Export revenue has become increasingly concentrated on iron ore but WA has still benefitted, while moves to net zero now dominate thinking. Click for the list of WA's biggest exporters.