Rio Tinto plans to recruit more resident Australians and people with mining expertise onto its board of directors but is unlikely to shift its London head office.
The Australian Shareholders' Association has joined several other advisory groups in recommending a vote against Rio Tinto's remuneration report at tomorrow's AGM in Perth.
Antipa Minerals has secured $22 million from a share placement, which will be used to fund ongoing exploration across the company's gold and copper tenements in WA.
Rio Tinto has reported a slump in quarterly iron ore production and disclosed issues with plant reliability and labour availability but still maintained full-year guidance.
Fortescue Metals Group has brought forward its target date for being carbon neutral, with the company spruiking green hydrogen while also talking down the future of gas.
A low-profile WA family that has amassed a $300 million fortune from iron ore royalties has come to prominence by developing a head office in West Perth.
BHP has struck its third agreement with a major steel producer to study new technologies and production techniques designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson will not seek re-election at the company's AGM next year after taking full responsibility over the destruction of ancient rock caves in the Pilbara.
Rio Tinto is aiming to shift half its freight movements into the Pilbara from road to sea, after it backed the launch of a third shipping service into WA's mining hub.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has posted a 20 per cent jump in annual underlying earnings and declared a bumper dividend as it reaped the benefits of sustained high iron ore prices.
Rio Tinto has hired indigenous community leader Wayne Bergmann to help improve relations with traditional owners as it continues to grapple with fallout from the Juukan Gorge controversy.
National construction company Georgiou Group has secured the non-process infrastructure contract for the second phase of Rio Tinto's Western Turner Syncline mine expansion.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has taken the extraordinary step of publicly acknowledging it should have communicated recent executive changes to the PKKP people in a more collaborative way.
Iron ore monolith, Rio Tinto has signed up to a 3-year software-as-a-service contract with ASX-listed tech player, K2fly. Rio will make use of K2fly's Infoscope software platform to manage very sensitive heritage information across its iron ore mining operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region. K2fly said the total contract value for the deal with Rio was set at A$719,000.
As firefighters attempt to contain an out-of-control blaze in Perth's east, the state's peak resources body has established an initiative to raise much-needed funds.
Simon Trott has been appointed iron ore chief executive at Rio Tinto, as part of a shake-up that leaves its management team weighted heavily in favour of its head office in London.
ASX-listed contractor Civmec has secured new work across its maintenance, manufacturing, and construction divisions including with the likes of BHP and Rio Tinto.
China's iron ore imports hit a record volume last year, helping to explain the surprising strength in the commodity's price and underpinning higher profits for the big miners.
City of Perth councillors have accepted thousands of dollars' worth of gifts since October, with Perron Group, Rio Tinto and Primewest among a notable list of benefactors.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Carmel Barbagallo, Christian Rasmussen, Helen Ockerby, Brad Haynes, Brent Fleeton, Nic Bowen, Amber Crosthwaite, Jennifer Keane, Rebekah O'Brien, John Guyer and Rob Donovan.
Today's board moves wrap includes Michael Freiberg, Paul Claessen, Ben Hammond, Krystel Kirou, Henko Vos, Jakob Stausholm, Peter Cunningham, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, and Paul Chisholm.
Rio Tinto's chief financial officer Jakob Stausholm will take over as chief executive after several company leaders resigned following the destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in the Pilbara
