Perth-based Royal Resources has signed a $50 million binding deal with a Singaporean company for the joint development of the Razorback magnetite iron ore deposit in South Australia.
East Perth-based explorer Westgold Resources says it will press ahead with an exploration program at its Rover project in the Northern Territory, after successfully raising $22 million.
Moly Mines has today announced the terms of its $C31.5 million ($A33 million) capital raising, a necessity for the restructure of its $US150 million financing facility.
Western Australia's unemployment rate has risen to a seasonally adjusted 5.8 per cent in September, bucking the national 0.1 per cent fall, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
Western Australia is set to be the testing ground for Shell's new floating gas processing technology, with the company giving the go ahead for specific engineering work for the Prelude gas project off the Kimberley coast.
RBA's interest rate increase inspires world markets; Iron ore exports on the rise; NZ taxman chases Westpac for $825m; Alcoa to keep up competition pressure; Labor backflip on GST relief
A NEW association representing not-for-profit employers in the non-government sector has been given approval by the state's Industrial Relations Commission to become a registered employer organisation.
AS a pack of reporters thrust their dictaphones in front of Troy Buswell late last week, the treasurer remarked that it reminded him of something other than a press conference.
FOLLOWING unprecedented growth at Perth Airport during the past seven years, Westralia Airports Corporation's completion of a new financing process worth $882 million will fund long-overdue expansion plans at the domestic and international terminals.
Population expansion, water shortages, and degradation of land fertility will elevate agriculture to a position of global strategic importance over the next two decades.
THE controversy over the pay packet of Michele Dolin, chief executive of the state superannuation agency GESB has overshadowed the long-running debate over the organisation's future being held at the highest levels of government.
BURSWOOD-BASED Aegis Aged Care Group has strengthened its ranking as the largest operator in the sector by taking over six facilities, despite financial pressures besetting the industry.
THE number of Western Australian companies considering listing on the local stock exchange may be gaining momentum, but the frantic activity from a couple of years ago is not likely to occur any time soon.
Development of the $43 billion Gorgon LNG project has been called an economy changing jobs bonanza. With a slew of other major oil and gas projects in the wings, how real are the opportunities for local business to share in the benefits?
Industry dismay over RBA rate rise The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to lift the official cash rate has caused surprise and dismay from various lobby groups, with one from WA saying the central bank has acted too hastily.
WHERE are all the people? Put simply, Western Australia doesn't have enough of them with the right skills and experience to make the most of the surge in oil and gas development.
Directors in Western Australian-listed companies continued to embrace the free share-trading period after the black-out period concluded with the end of the reporting season.
GEARING up to work on major oil and gas projects can present special challenges for smaller and medium-sized firms, the WA Business News oil and gas services forum was told.
CURTIN University is the sole Western Australian representative in a list of top 100 MBA programs around the world, compiled by the intelligence division at The Economist.
