Orica has made a $20 million-plus investment in mining technology by purchasing WA companies RIG Technologies, from Wallis Drilling, and Hopper Industrial Group.
Nicola Forrest, Sue Murphy, Neville Owen, and Diane Smith-Gander have been recognised for their service at this year's Queen's Birthday Honours, along with business executives including Anthony Kiernan, Greg Wall and Graeme Wallis.
Carnegie Wave Energy chief executive officer Michael Ottaviano and Northern Star Resources boss Bill Beament were among the winners of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year western region awards.
In the final installment of our four-part series on EY Entrepreneur of the Year nominees, we talk to chief executives of six contracting and consulting businesses.
SHRINKING profit margins and dwindling cash balances in the junior mining sector are not only putting pressure on miners, but also those who provide key services to the sector.
‘UNPRECEDENTED' would be an apt word to describe demand for the services of family owned and operated Wallis Drilling, which has done surface drilling work for some of the biggest open-pit miners s