Atlas Iron has appointed Spiro Pappas, Professor Ian Plimer, Tad Watroba and Stephen Wood as non-executive directors with Mr Pappas being elected as chair.
Atlas Iron has announced a raft of board changes, including the appointment of former state government tourism boss Stephen Wood and National Australia Bank executive Spiro Pappas.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has appointed a new executive director and a new chief executive at Hancock Prospecting and foreshadowed plans to recruit additional senior executives to run its commercial and agribusiness operations.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has seen off the first shipment of iron ore from her $10 billion Roy Hill project, on the same day BC Iron entered a trading halt ahead of a review of its Nullagine joint venture project.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart is excited about the Roy Hill project's expected first iron ore shipment this week despite the commodity trading at a fresh 10-year low.
The billionaire Rinehart and Wright families have scored a multi-million dollar High Court win against mining giant Rio Tinto over iron ore royalties derived from the Pilbara.
THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.