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Lights on at the Mt Marion lithium mine.

MiningMinRes keen to sell assets after $896m loss and cash crunch

Mineral Resources’ key project is hitting its stride but flogging off mines, another truck rollover, and uncertainty about Chris Ellison’s tenure — and his voice — shows the chaos is yet to leave.

Adrian Rauso

The US division returned to growth in the June half, with revenue growing 8 per cent on the first six months.

ContractingPremiumMader America great again as group eyes $1b haul

The mining fleet services company is now tipping it will finish its five-year strategic plan by increasing revenue at least 15 per cent in 2026, aided by a rebound in Canada and the US.

Sean Smith

Perenti chair Diane Smith Gander.

ContractingPremiumPerenti fatality free but slides on key safety metric

Investors have welcomed a bolstered balance sheet from Perenti, but the listed contractor has had to assure it will ‘remain vigilant’ after failing to reduce injury frequency rates during the year.

Simone Grogan

NRW Holdings - operational pics. Dalgaranga Picture NRW Holdings 21/11/2018

ContractingPremiumNRW left with $77m profit hit from Whyalla debacle

NRW has copped a hefty blow to its 2025 profit numbers after being left with no choice but to write off the $110 million the contractor is still fighting to pry from the Whyalla Steelworks wreckage. 

Simone Grogan

Data centres are accounting for increasing work at Southern Cross Electrical Engineering.

ContractingCommentsPremiumFast-growing SCEE says ‘it’s a great time to be in business’

The electrical contractor’s full-year profit marched 44.5 per cent higher to a record $31.7 million as increased work servicing infrastructure and commercial developments sent revenue up 45 per cent to $801m.

Sean Smith

VEEM manufacturing process in Canning Vale, WA.

ManufacturingPremiumVeem stock on the up after landing $65m subs contract

Shares in family-controlled manufacturing firm Veem have surged after landing another six years’ worth of work with Australian submarine builder ASC. 

Simone Grogan

Iluka Resources’ monazite stockpile at Eneabba.

MiningPremiumIluka claims mine camp dues owed on $600m build

Mineral sands extractor Iluka Resources has assured an upcoming project in New South Wales will start on time despite running into a scrap over delivery of a 164-person accommodation build.

Simone Grogan

Acciona Desal Plant Roger Cook Bede Noonan 15 July 2025

InfrastructurePremiumAcciona eyes WA power and defence builds

The national boss of contracting giant Acciona has knocked back worries about a Western Australian worker shortage as he reveals the company’s plans to chase AUKUS work and energy transition projects.

Matt Mckenzie

Andrew Ellison.

MiningCommentsAndrew Ellison agrees to cancel RDG performance rights

Chris Ellison’s younger brother Andrew has agreed to bin 13.3 million performance rights attached to the ailing Mineral Resources subsidiary he runs. 

Adrian Rauso

Monadelphous’ office in Victoria Park.

ContractingPremiumMonadelphous books two contracts for $100m

Listed engineer Monadelphous has booked two contracts including work at Shell’s new Crux platform off the WA coast.

Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto, First train of Iron Ore from Brockman 4 Iron Ore mine.

ContractingPremiumAnother win for NRW at Rio’s Pilbara pipeline

Belmont-based NRW has added another Rio Tinto contract to the books, this time worth $167 million at the mining giant’s Brockman Syncline 1 development. 

Simone Grogan

The Hope Downs 1 mine.

MiningPremiumNRW wins $157m Rio contract

NRW Holdings is reaping the rewards of Rio Tinto’s iron ore replenishment pipeline with a second contract from the mining giant in the space of three months.

Adrian Rauso

Austal chief executive Paddy Gregg at its facility in Mobile, Alabama.

BoardsCommentsPremiumWA shipbuilder Austal names banking boss to join board

Henderson naval shipbuilder Austal has picked former Credit Suisse Australia boss Richard Gibb to join its board as a non-executive director.

Cheyanne Enciso

The Agnew proccessing plant and mine. Gold Fields

MiningPremiumPerenti inks $500m renewal with Gold Fields

Perenti’s underground mining services division has locked in a new contract at nearly double the annual price of its previous extension during the pre-COVID era.

Adrian Rauso

NRW has won a contract for infrastructure work at at East Pilbara minesite.

ContractingPremiumNRW fears $113m Whyalla debt now in doubt

NRW will cop a $113 million impairment charge after the contractor revealed it may now lose rights to property thought to be pegged as security over unpaid work at the collapsed Whyalla Steelworks. 

Simone Grogan

The listed contractor said it required “regular weekly payment instalments” and provided those services up until February 19 when administrators at KordaMentha were called in at OneSteel.

ContractingPremiumNRW halts trading to suss out Whyalla Port claims

NRW has ducked into a trading halt while assesses new legislation that could threaten security the contractor holds over assets locked up in the collapse of the Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia.

Simone Grogan

Byrnecut Group executive chairman Steve Coughlan.

ContractingCommentsPremiumMining contractor trio share in $35m payout bonanza

Dividends have grown more than fourfold for Byrnecut’s backers as the underground mining contractor basks in gold’s bull run.

Adrian Rauso

Macmahon managing director and chief executive Michael Finnegan.

Work awardedPremiumMacmahon wins new underground mining contracts worth $172m

Listed Perth contractor Macmahon has won two underground mining contracts which it says will bring in revenue of $172 million.

Neil Watkinson

Monadelphous executive chair Rob Velletri and managing director Zoran Bebic.

ContractingCommentsPremiumMonadelphous grabs more power with $21.5m local buy

The local business provides high-voltage electrical maintenance services for the resources sector, with a focus on iron ore mines.

Sean Smith

Worx Equipment leased yellowgoods to WA mining and civil contractors.

Administration and liquidationPremiumNo rescue in the Worx for hire business

The former boss of Worx Group says he deeply regrets the company’s collapse as creditors look set to send the equipment hire business to liquidation.

Matt Mckenzie

A DPIRD office in Kensington. Cally Dupe

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ContractingPremium
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Restricted contract for WA department’s dark web watch

A State Government department claims it is not keeping tabs on the dark web because of a cyber attack, despite the department’s staff being caught up in a recent hack.

Adrian Rauso

Barminco — Perenti’s underground mining division — started the original five-year, $800 million Khoemacau contract in December 2019. 

MiningPremiumPerenti to pull up stumps at African copper mine

Working at a massive underground copper mine in southern Africa has not met the mining service provider’s ‘internal performance hurdles’.

Adrian Rauso

Macmahon told the market it had successfully bid for the three-year extension at the Byerwen coking coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin on Wednesday. 

ContractingPremiumMacmahon wins bid for three-year, $900m coal mining contract

Listed contractor Macmahon is set to book a $900 million contract extension for mining services at a Queensland coal mine. 

Simone Grogan

Peter Bryant was chief financial officer at Perenti for five years.

ContractingPremiumNRW poaches from Perth Airport to fill CFO void

NRW has chosen former Perth Airport and Perenti chief financial officer Peter Bryant to run the listed contractor’s financial affairs as it waits to claw back $113 million from the collapsed Whyalla steelworks.

Simone Grogan