May 2023
Rivet founder Mark Rowsthorn left with empty pockets after collapse
Rowsthorn, who poured more than $30 million into the logistics group, is likely to have had his investments wiped out.
- Jenny Wiggins
March 2023
Rivet Mining Services slides into administration
The company is part of the contracting group that emerged from the collapse of McAleese in 2017. Receivers at FTI Consulting were called in on Wednesday.
- Kylar Loussikian
August 2021
Gascoyne Resources knocks back Rowthorn’s Rivet Group
There’s plenty of wheeling and dealing around listed gold play Gascoyne Resources, but it doesn’t seem to want to do business with Mark Rowsthorn’s Rivet Group.
- Anthony Macdonald and Yolanda Redrup
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
May 2021
Bids land for Downer’s $200m mining services arm
Downer Group’s transformation into an urban services-focused business is inching closer to completion.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
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
December 2020
How a $600,000 debt could have sunk a $292m gold mine
Mark Rowsthorn and Simon Raftery used a slice of debt to try to liquidate a West Australian mine which hoped to produce 400,000 ounces of gold in seven years.
- Aaron Patrick
December 2019
Rowsthorn's Rivet cashed up as industry consolidates
Rivet is cashed up and ready to grab its slice of the consolidation sweeping the contracting sector.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd