Western Australia

SIMPEC has won a $4.5 million contract at Rio Tinto’s Cape Lambert port facility in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Fortescue Metals Group’s first shipment of the higher-grade West Pilbara Fines iron ore has left Western Australia for China.

Gibb River Diamonds has received approval from the Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) for its Blina diamond project.

Capricorn Metals has secured a $107 million funding package that will be used to advance development of the Karlawinda gold project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

MICROMINE has won a contract to implement the Pitram fleet management and mine control software at Independence Group’s (IGO) Nova nickel-copper-cobalt mine in Western Australia.

BHP’s introduction of autonomous equipment at the $4.5 billion South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara is under way.

Alcoa has secured gas supply agreements with three leading producers that will cover 25 per cent of its requirements in Western Australia from 2020.

Adaman Resources has awarded a mill construction contract at its Kirkalocka gold project near Mt Magnet in Western Australia to MACA.

Intermin Resources and MacPhersons Resources have agreed to merge into a new gold company that will operate in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

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

Echo Resources has signed a letter of intent to award MACA two mining contracts at the Yandal gold project in Western Australia.

Tawana Resources saw its last day of public trading yesterday as its long-planned merger with Alliance Mineral Assets came into effect.

Mineral exploration is trending up, with a 3.6 per cent quarterly growth to $561.4 million in the September quarter according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Image Resources has commenced production ramp-up at its 100 per cent-owned Boonanarring mineral sands project in the North Perth Basin, Western Australia.

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.

A disagreement has emerged between the Western Australian Government and Clive Palmer over the dispute between the mining magnate’s company, Mineralogy, and China’s CITIC Pacific.

Brisbane-based Alliance Aviation Services has extended an air charter contract with BHP Nickel West by five years.

Independence Group (IGO) has partnered with Buxton Resources to advance its Double Magic-Merlin nickel-copper project in the West Kimberley region, Western Australia.

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions has won a contract to deliver the largest rail mounted stackers and reclaimers in the world to BHP’s $4.6 billion South Flank project in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

The Western Australian Government has banned hydraulic fracturing over 98 per cent of the state, with traditional owners and farmers having the right to say no to fracking production for the first time.