Leighton awarded A$420m Indonesian contract

Project house Leighton Holdings has been awarded a A$420-million mining services contract by Indonesia’s PT Marunda Grahamineral. The coal mining project involves the extraction of over two-million tons of thermal and coking coal a year, by...

Leighton-Fortescue deny A$5bn contract

Project house Leighton Holdings on Friday denied that it had entered into a contract with iron-ore major Fortescue Metals regarding the award of A$5-billion mining services contract at the Solomon mining hub. Referring to speculation in local...

Leighton/Thiess JV wins Wheatstone contract

Project house Leighton Holdings and its joint venture partner Thiess has been awarded a A$260-million contract at the Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, in Western Australia. The joint venture would be responsible for the design and...

BHP completes acquisition of HWE Mining

Diversified miner BHP Billiton has completed acquisition of HWE Mining Subsidiaries from ASX-listed Leighton Holdings. During August this year, the mining giant signed a heads of agreement with Leighton Holdins to acquire HWE Mining for...

BHP to buy Leighton subsidiary HWE Mining

Mining giant BHP Billiton has signed a heads of agreement with ASX-listed Leighton Holdings to acquire subsidiary HWE Mining in a deal worth A$705-million. HWE Mining currently provides contract services to BHP’s Pilbara iron-ore operations.

Leighton completes retail bookbuild of A$757m raising

ASX-listed contracting and project development company Leighton Holdings on Thursday completed the bookbuild for the retail component of its A$757-million capital raising. Under the retail offer bookbuild, Leighton offered around 6,1-million new...

Leighton says awarded JV contract in Botswana

ASX-listed project house Leighton Holdings and its joint-venture (JV) partners Basil Read Mining and Bothakga Burrows of Botswana, have secured a $586-million mining services contact with diamond miner Debswana. Under the 66-month contract, the...

Aspire appoints CFO and operations GM

Mongolia-focused coal explorer Aspire Mining has appointed Phil Rundell as CFO and Fergus Campbell as GM of operations to bolster the company as it brings its Ovoot coking coal project into production. Rundell would take on the role of CFO in...

Australia's Leighton CEO King ends 23-year reign

Top Australian contractor Leighton Holdings eased out CE Wal King after 23 years, promoting another company veteran into the top job on Monday. Leighton, majority owned by German construction group Hochtief, said David Stewart, currently...

Iluka appoints IFM founder Turner to board

ASX-listed mineral sands producer Iluka Resources has appointed Stephen Turner and Wayne Osborn as nonexecutive directors, with immediate effect. Turner is the founder of LSE-listed International Ferro Metals (IFM). He was the CEO of IFM from...