BHP Billiton Iron Ore

Mining services contractor Viento Group says it can’t explain why its share price has risen by 75 per cent to 12 cents per share in two weeks.

BHP Billiton bosses have made a strong sales pitch regarding the company's proposed demerger, telling shareholders in London they'd benefit from the next step in the big miner's "evolution".

The Business News annual export review has the latest data on 33 businesses representing $122 billion in outgoing trade. It also shows that while iron ore continues to dominate, the emergence of LNG, agriculture and services will benefit from a lower dollar.

Perth-based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been awarded an electrical and instrumentation contract at CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino Iron project at Cape Preston, worth over $10 million.

Western Australia-based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has won a $25 million contract with BHP Billiton Iron Ore for electrical and instrumentation works at the Yarnima power station near Newman.

FEATURE: Impressive statistics don’t necessarily equate to widespread positive change.

Downer EDI has been awarded two contracts with a total value of $100 million by BHP Billiton Iron Ore.

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.

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 and a