HWE Mining

BHP Billiton Iron Ore and its former contractor HWE Newman Services have been handed a total of $238,000 in fines in relation to the death of a worker at BHP's Yandi mine near Newman five years ago.

Cazaly Resources has reached an agreement with Leighton Contractors subsidiary HWE Mining, bringing the Parker Range iron ore project at Yilgarn a step closer.

Leighton Contractors has completed the $211 million purchase of Henry Walker Eltin's Austrralian and New Zealand contract mining business and disclosed that it is negotiating to buy HWE's 50 per cent interest in Pilbara-based indigenous contractor Ngarda