Paladin Energy managing director John Borshoff says the company's $US190 million sale of a minority stake in its Langer Heinrich mine vindicates a decision to walk away from sale negotiations last year.
Waste management company Tox Free Solutions has bolstered its order book, securing new contracts with Titan Energy and Rio Tinto's Dampier Salt business.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has bolstered its order book, securing electrical and instrumentation works worth more than $10 million at Rio Tinto's Nammuldi below water table project.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been awarded a $40 million electrical and instrumentation contract at Rio Tinto's Cape Lambert Port B project in the Pilbara and says it is in negotiations with the mining giant to secure further works at the project.
CBH Group chief executive Andrew Crane has been appointed a member of Australia's B20 Leadership Group, a private sector consortium that produces policy recommendations for international finance leaders for the annual G20 Leaders Summit in Brisbane next year.
Is the world about to become a better place? That's not a philosophical question, it's simply an observation that economic conditions might be better than we realise, as shown by recent developments in China, the US and the UK.
Rio Tinto's former Pilbara iron ore president Greg Lilleyman has been promoted to group executive technology & innovation, just four months after he was made head of productivity improvement.
Queensland-based pipeline construction company Murphy Pipe and Civil has expanded its operations into Western Australia, opening a new Perth office in the hopes of winning further work on the state's resources projects.
A slowdown in mining investment has many companies cutting costs, but this hasn't stopped WA Skills Training owner Bob Butson from making a $5 million investment in new premises in Welshpool.
Rio Tinto employees have dominated a list of 16 executives and key operational players based in Western Australia that feature in the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.
The recent publication of two listings of influential business leaders provided food for thought about the growing international influence on Western Australia.
Rio Tinto has highlighted the dramatic shift in strategy by the big mining houses by unveiling a ‘low cost' expansion for its Pilbara iron ore business, with plans to lift production at five existing mines before it considers developing any new mines.
Just four months after becoming Forge Group's new lender, it appears ANZ Banking Group will need to pitch in more debt financing to keep the struggling company afloat.
A major reform package for Western Australia's ports will take away the entitlement of major port customers to a seat on the port authority boards, and allow the ports to operate 24 hours a day.
Former federal resources minister Martin Ferguson has joined the board of trustees of the University of Western Australia's Energy and Minerals Institute.
The value of Western Australia's resources industry has fallen slightly from last year's record level, but has still topped $100 billion for the third consecutive year.
Gindalbie Metals has appointed former Rio Tinto executive Dale Harris as its new managing director to succeed the departing Tim Netscher on a package that is about half of what his predecessor received.
The Barnett government is understood to have picked a winner for the first two lots at Elizabeth Quay, pushing the button for the second land sale at the 10-hectare riverside precinct.
Premier Colin Barnett says Rio Tinto's new port expansion in the Pilbara is a sign of confidence in the resources sector which will allow Western Australia to boost its iron ore exports.
A pair of Mineral Resources subsidiaries have made progress on two fronts, one winning a processing plant contract worth an estimated $450 million at Rio Tinto's Nammuldi iron ore mine, while anoth
The $10 billion tragedy of Western Australia's failed magnetite iron ore processing experiment risks becoming something worse next year, as the price is pushed down by a flood of iron ore supply an
Perth ‘cashbox' Core Services Group has shown how hard it can be to complete a deal in the current market, announcing today a third iteration of its plan to buy a business that is already part-owne
Several surveying firms have responded in one of two ways during the past year in response to slowing work opportunities in Western Australia – they have consolidated operations, or cast the net wi
Western Australia's uranium explorers are in somewhat of a holding pattern as they wait for a significant lift in prices for the controversial commodity.
Mining industry pundits bemoaning the end of the ‘boom' will be pleasantly surprised to know that up to a dozen major projects could go ahead over the coming year.
Mining giant Rio Tinto and not-for-profit group Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts Australia (DADAA) have launched a partnership aimed at helping regional communities overcome the sti
