Claude Dauphin and Gina Rinehart are two of the richest people in the world with fortunes built on commodities, but that's where the comparison ends because Dauphin is pessimistic about future comm
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has called on the federal government to publish its latest budget position numbers so the coalition can work out its surplus prospects.
TNG has begun discussions with a European engineering and metallurgical technology group over the commercialisation of the Perth-based vanadium miner's proprietary TIVAN hydrometallurgical process.
Nine Entertainment has been saved from collapse with a Federal Court judge giving the final tick of approval to a $3.4 billion recapitalisation scheme.
The Australian share market has opened higher for a ninth straight day, despite substantial falls among insurers due to the flood and storm crisis on the east coast.
Australia's mining construction boom is expected to peak in late 2013 and government spending cuts are making it harder to find a new driver of economic growth, economics advisory group Deloitte Ac
US construction equipment group Caterpillar has posted a 15 per cent rise in 2012 net profit, but that was below market expectations owing in large part to a charge of million that arose from acco
US stocks have finished mostly lower despite a stronger-than-expected manufactured durable goods report and a nearly 2 per cent lift from Caterpillar earnings.
One day after being heckled by environmental protesters in Broome, premier Colin Barnett has announced plans to make the world-renowned Horizontal Falls in the Kimberley part of a new national park
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan has officially launched his party's state election campaign, declaring it a "referendum on priorities" and claiming he was more in touch with the community
Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart has made a profit of about $60 million after selling her stake in diversified miner and contractor Mineral Resources.
The state government has committed to spend $70 million upgrading the beachfront at Scarborough and realigning the coastal road near Leighton and Port beaches.
The board of Perth-based drilling technology group Coretrack has defeated a spill motion against it, with more than 80 per cent of votes cast in support of the board despite an ongoing intellectual
The nation's peak industry group has applauded the federal government's reinstatement of incentive payments for employers taking on first-year apprentices to engineering trades.
International design and engineering firm Hyder Consulting has acquired Perth business BCH Engineering Consultants, which has built a sizeable niche in the Pilbara since being established six years
The Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority and the Department of Housing will collaborate on a series of new housing projects in a bid to add to the state's affordable housing supply.
Clients of financial advisers will find it easier to determine if they are getting value for money under new guidelines issued by the corporate watchdog.
Apple's shares have plunged more than 12 per cent after its earnings disappointment, but the Dow has held up in positive territory with help from airline stocks.
Fortescue Metals Group's decision to not become involved in gas exploration in the Canning Basin via listed company Oil Basins has enabled Melbourne-based explorer Octanex to get a foot in the door
