WA

Mining equipment specialist Emeco Holdings will spend around $90 million on new assets to contribute to earnings and cash generation in the 2020 financial year.

BHP has stated that productivity will be “broadly flat” in the 2019 financial year according to chief executive officer Andrew Mackenzie.

Utilising innovative technology to fast-track both the exploration and exploitation of mining sites is the key to success in the modern age, according to Independence Group (IGO) managing director and CEO, Peter Bradford.

Monadelphous has been granted a construction works contract worth $108 million at BHP’s South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Engineering services company Civmec has been chosen by Albemarle Lithium to construct a lithium hydroxide plant in Western Australia.

Rising investment in Western Australian mining projects and record sales in 2017–18 could see the mining industry return to the conditions of the mining boom, according to research from IBISWorld.

Westgold Resources has decided to sell the majority of its lithium royalties instead of its previously planned demerger.

Mining was a key contributor to Perth’s improving gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017–18, but the city requires “alternate sources of economic growth”, according to a new report by SGS Economics and Planning.

Diatreme Resources has released a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the Cyclone zircon project in Western Australia that forecasts it will cost $135.7 million to develop.

Western Australian gold producers Silver Lake Resources and Doray Minerals have entered into an agreement to merge into a new company.

Mineral Resources has secured a milestone at the Koolyanobbing iron ore operation by delivering its first fully loaded train from the site to the Port of Esperance.

The Labor Party has set out its plans to boost Australia’s battery metals industry in the event Bill Shorten is elected as the next Prime Minister.

Novo Resources is to secure 100 per cent of Farno-McMahon (Farno) and enter a farm-in to earn the right to up to 70 per cent of the Kangan gold project in separate deals with Farno and Pioneer Resources.

Ramelius Resources is to commence underground mining at the Edna May gold mine near Westonia, Western Australia in early 2019.

Diversified explorer Artemis Resources has returned high-grade RC drilling results from the Carlow Castle copper-cobalt-gold project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Mineral Resources has finalised its completion of the Koolyanobbing iron ore assets in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia from former owner Cleveland-Cliffs.

Though Swick was founded in 1995, the company didn’t start diamond drilling projects until nine years later.

Mining companies increasingly want to develop wide-ranging partnerships with suppliers and services companies to improve their operational performance.

Mineral Resources expects to receive non-binding bids for the sale of up to 49 per cent of its Wodgina lithium project in Western Australia this August.

WA-based gold producer Dacian Gold has achieved its June 2018 quarter production target, when it confirmed its 34,155 ounces (oz) production at the Mt Morgans operation in Western Australia.