ASX Announcements
February 2022
Drillers say tight labour market leading to wage pressures
Drilling companies Boart Longyear and Mitchell Services are flagging wage inflation for mining drillers of up to 5 per cent over the next year.
- Liam Walsh
January 2022
Omicron, WA’s lockout to chisel into drilling bonanza
COVID-19 and bumper demand for commodities is playing havoc with supplies of some drilling goods – and omicron could add to skills troubles.
- Liam Walsh
July 2021
Driller takes $5m haircut to end gold spat with Rowsthorn contractor
A dispute had erupted entangling related parties and a gold mine that has gone into administration.
- Liam Walsh
March 2021
Governance questions gush from drilling bill spat
A gold mine is at the centre of a multimillion-dollar battle entangling Toll Holdings co-founder Mark Rowsthorn and a pioneering drilling family.
- Liam Walsh
February 2021
Drill-bill spat hits Rowsthorn outfit, Mitchell Services
One of Australia’s leading drillers says it is owed $8.5 million for work on a WA gold mine.
- Liam Walsh
August 2020
Mining wage pressures in focus while borders stay shut
Mining services company Bis needs 50 new workers and would normally advertise nationally but with borders slammed shut it can really only recruit in WA.
- Liam Walsh
Gas draining ramped up in safety drive: Mitchell
After a horrifying underground explosion in Australia earlier this year, a key contractor says miners are being more cautious.
- Liam Walsh
June 2020
How the pandemic turned FY20 on its head
Business trundled along for fiscal 2020's first six months, and then, as the virus hit, companies had to react quickly to survive.
- Liam Walsh
November 2019
Driller says manslaughter laws will boost industry safety focus
Mitchell Services, meanwhile, has taken shot at the issue of mining service operations paying dividends.
- Liam Walsh
May 2019
As drillers revive, eyes are on job pressures
Drillers say finding experienced operators is becoming trickier, but wages in the sector are yet to blow out.
- Liam Walsh
November 2018
Mining services sector ripe for M&A, says EY
A buoyant resources sector is breathing life back into the mining services sector and could trigger a wave of exits from private equity players, says EY.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
November 2014
Mining services: dive in exploration drives creativity
The steady decline in exploration spending has prompted more mining service operators to look more creatively at doing deals as they seek to maintain revenues.
- Brian Robins
August 2014
- Opinion
Mitchell Services bulks up
Mitchell Services is poised to acquire Tom Browne Services out of receivership, institutional sources said on Tuesday.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann