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Exploration company Spitfire Resources has finalised its move to take on advanced coal projects in Tasmania with two key exploration licences, covering the Langloh and Avoca thermal coal projects, being granted.

Shares in Fortescue Metals Group jumped more than 15 per cent at market open after the burgeoning iron ore miner announced an increase in exports.

Phosphate Resources will shutdown its Christmas Island operations for more than six weeks over the the New Year due to a lack of demand from its Malaysian and Indonesia markets.

Share prices off 50pc in a year; We can avoid deficit - Swan; Banks seek guarantee overhaul; iiNet faces action over piracy; Housing finance skids

Perth-based sandalwood products company, TFS Corporation is expecting to deliver a profit increase of at least 15 per cent for the year ending 30 June 2009.

Minimum wage earners have far higher life satisfaction than the unemployed and they are also just as happy with their lives as medium wage workers, a study from Curtin University's Business School has found.

Speaking at Fortescue Metals Group's AGM this afternoon, the Perth-based mining company's chief executive, Andrew Forrest announced his company has enhanced long term contracts with its Chinese customers.

Apex Minerals has commenced commissioning of the plant and increased gold ore reserves at its cornerstone Wiluna mine, extending the projected life of the mine to four years.

West Perth-based Equinox Minerals has accepted handover of the process plant and related infrastructure at its Lumwana copper project in Zambia.

Macmahon Holdings has been awarded an $89 million dollar road contract for the Tiger Brennan Drive Extension Project in Darwin.

Eastern states-based law firm, Middletons is merging with two of Perth's boutique corporate law firms, Salter Power and Franklyn Legal.

Straits Resources is reviewing the viability of two if its copper mines, including the Whim Creek copper mine in WA, after a dramatic drop in the world copper price.

Range Resources will be pursuing legal action following an article in published by The Age newspaper in Melbourne under the heading "Mining Firm tied to Somali Oil Pirates."

Despite all the doom and gloom, including today's turmoil on the Australian stockmarket, consumers are still spending up big, particularly on their credit cards.

The Shire of Wyndham East Kimberley and the Consolidated Pastoral Company have reached an agreement to upgrade a road, triggering the conversion of 16,000 hectares of pastoral land to freehold in the next step to expand the Ord River Irrigation Scheme.

South Perth-based uranium company Extract Resources' proposed merger agreement with London-listed Kalahari Minerals has been terminated.

Uranio has acquired a thermal coal project in the Sakoa Basin of Madagascar called Imaloto, plus an associated cash injection worth more than $2 million in a deal with Coal of Africa and Oak Nominees for 50 million shares.

It's OK to go into red - RBA; Babcock to cut itself in two; BHP softens plans to increase production; Reynolds re-election renews ABCC push; Razor gang with sharp eye for WA cuts

An electric car that costs just $1.40 every 100 kilometres will be launched at the University of Western Australia in Perth today.

PERTH company AgritechSmart-Water has commissioned an economic review of its plans to use Wellington Dam as a major new source of water for the South West.

THE residential population of the area encompassed by the City of Perth is forecast to double in the next 20 years, as the number of new dwellings and net migration numbers grow.

WHO remembers the final week of the 2008 state election campaign, when then premier Alan Carpenter ran an increasingly desperate and almost bizarre scare campaign? Every waking moment he told voters about the supposed dangers posed by uranium mining, nucl

A REPORT released this week has provided the first accurate and detailed picture of the Western Australian forestry industry, which employs 5,570 people, half of whom rely on native forest resources.

IN her doctorate on the impact of fly in, fly out (FIFO) on workers, the University of Western Australia's Susan Clifford has found that FIFO is not having the deleterious effect the tabloid headlines would have us believe.

REDEPLOYMENT has become the new buzzword in Western Australian human resources circles, most notably in the engineering services sector, which involves a number of the state's largest employers.

TRANSPARENCY is a fascinating concept and last week I encountered two vastly different examples of its application, or more accurately, its absence.

AT first glance it's hard to imagine there's much similarity between running warehouse hardware stores and private hospitals.

WHAT are the chances of Jim McGinty being regularly cheered and toasted at all major Nationals WA get-togethers? The reason for asking is that this long-time urban-based paramount leftist factional chief, when fine-tuning his electoral redistribution legi

THERE was an increase of more than 50,000 full-time workers in Western Australia for the year to August 2008, with a total of 842,500 full-time employees in the state.

IT may only be a temporary reprieve but global events have conspired to assist the Department of Education and Training in its bid to fill its teaching needs for 2009.

THE Australian share market has closed 3.5 per cent down at fresh four-year lows, wiping $34 billion from the value of the market following a weaker performance on Wall Street overnight.At close, the

THE global financial crisis may be pushing down energy prices, but there are concerns that this could ultimately hurt local power users more than benefit them.