15 February 2014 Sarah-Jane Tasker The Australian GINA Rinehart reaches the final stages of securing a debt package for her $10 billion Roy Hill project. Market jitters, a gloomy outlook for mining […]
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Article – Roy Hill close to $7b debt deal
10 February 2014 Nick Evans The West Australian The news comes as Roy Hill’s equity partners – including Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting, Marubeni, Korean conglomerate POSCO and Taiwanese steelmaker China Steel Corporation […]
Read moreArticle – Fortescue announces new WA gas pipeline, transportation agreement
30 January 2014 Pipelines International Fortescue Metals Group has signed a long-term gas-transportation agreement for the delivery of gas to reduce operating costs at its Pilbara operations in Western Australia. Gas will […]
Read moreArticle – Gas hits a cost wall
22 January 2014 Angela Macdonald-Smith Australian Financial Review “The crazy thing is that four or five years ago everyone was talking about a flood of ramp-up gas.” – Mark Samter, Credit Suisse […]
Read moreArticle – An Arrow into our High Costs
22 January 2014 Australian Financial Review The feared scrapping of a planned $20 billion stand-alone LNG production train at Gladstone by the Shell-led Arrow Energy venture marks the final turning of the […]
Read moreArticle – Mining states continue to lead economy
20 January 2014 Melanie Timbrell Commonwealth Bank of Australia The resource rich states of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland continued as frontrunners in CommSec’s quarterly State of the States report. WA […]
Read moreArticle – Rinehart adds extra $265m
20 January 2014 Nick Evans The West Australian Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has committed to an extra $265 million worth of shares in the giant Roy Hill iron ore dream as part […]
Read moreArticle – Workforce at Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill project doubles
15 January 2014 Vicky Validakis Australian Mining It is estimated 1700 people are now working on Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill project as the next phase of construction ramps up ahead of debt […]
Read moreArticle – Rinehart hits button on Roy Hill
15 January 2014 Nick Evans The West Australian Gina Rinehart has pulled the trigger on the major construction phase at her 55-million-tonne-a-year Roy Hill project, even though the project is yet to […]
Read moreArticle – For Karratha once there was nothing but blue sky but future uncertain
28 December 2013 Georgia Wilkins The Age As the mining boom slows, Western Australia’s ‘City of the North’ looks to the future. The town of Karratha, at the centre of Australia’s iron […]
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