News Articles for Rio Tinto

Lucrative top-tier mining assets have mostly gone in Australia, so workers need to be flexible to help make new investment possible, mining giants have warned.

Aboriginal businesses are hitting resistance when they chase work outside their own country.

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St George Mining is off to a flying start in its copper-gold search in the “world-class” Paterson region of Western Australia with multiple holes from its maiden drilling campaign at its Paterson prospect hitting prospective basement rocks. Initial XRF analysis has returned elevated levels of pathfinder elements suggesting potential for base metal and gold mineralisation across 35km of target stratigraphy at the company's tenure.

Valor Resources has bumped up its uranium exploration acreage in the mighty Athabasca Basin region in central Canada to 986 square kilometres by acquiring five new projects, including one along strike from Rio Tinto's Janice Lake property. The Athabasca Basin has historically produced about 20 per cent of global primary uranium supply and hosts the world's highest-grade uranium mine at Cigar Lake.

Rio Tinto has suspended its mineral sands operations in South Africa, as violence at the coastal Richards Bay mine site continues.

Rio Tinto has been criticised for allowing Aboriginal heritage artefacts collected at its giant Marandoo mine to be dumped at a Darwin rubbish tip in the 1990s.

Top officials from the mining industry have come together to affirm their support for clamping down on sexual assault in the workplace as allegations of misconduct roil the sector.

Two reports this week have highlighted concerns that commodity prices have peaked, with UBS saying iron ore is approaching an inflection point and set to fall sharply.

Engineering and construction company Monadelphous has won a number of new contracts including work on major iron ore projects Gudai-Darri and Iron Bridge.

China's not the only game in town, as recent moves in the resources sector demonstrate.

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Resources giant Rio Tinto is set to trial the use of hydrogen to replace natural gas in a bid to cut emissions from an alumina plant in Queensland.

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Ben Wyatt has quickly become one of Western Australia's busiest and most senior board directors, with global mining giant Rio Tinto appointing him as a non-executive director.

The mining sector is the largest supporter of indigenous businesses in Australia, but the contribution of the big miners is highly variable.

Perth-based power and telecommunications company GenusPlus Group has made its first acquisition since listing on the ASX, as well as secured a $60 million contract with Rio Tinto.

Former Rio Tinto iron ore boss Chris Salisbury has joined the board of potash company BCI Minerals as a non-executive director.

Rio Tinto's blasting of the sacred Juukan Gorge rock shelters is being marked by traditional owners on the first anniversary of the destruction.

Where will dozens of departing members of state parliament find themselves in the months ahead?

Fifty Perth-based companies and organisations - including education institutions, numerous local startups and not for profits and mining giants have been announced as finalists for the INCITE Award

Rights afforded to traditional owners and custodians are not being upheld due to deficiencies in the legislation, an inquiry has heard.

Iron ore majors BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale have launched a global competition for tech innovators, aimed at developing new concepts to electrify the mining industry's substantial haul truck fleet.

Innovation should be embraced, not feared.

A majority of Rio Tinto shareholders have voted against adoption of the company's remuneration report while a large minority opposed the re-election of director Megan Clark.

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.

Rio Tinto is seeking environmental approval for expansion at West Angelas, to enable mining of five further iron ore deposits.

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.

Mark McGowan may soon have to grapple with the big political and economic equation facing WA.

With the big iron ore miners continuing to make record profits, is the WA community getting a fair return?

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.

The state government has opted not to prosecute a mining company alleged to have destroyed a sacred Aboriginal heritage site in the Kimberley.

Santos and Pilbara mining giant Rio Tinto have entered a new gas supply agreement, which will take effect later this year.

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.

Rio Tinto has settled out of court with Perth-based engineering group Monadelphous over a fire at a Western Australian iron ore site in 2019.

High-quality copper prospects are becoming harder to find, but juniors are poised for the challenge.

Western Australians have long considered themselves cut from a different cloth to those in other states, and little happened during a tumultuous 2020 to change that view, particularly in economic t

Rio Tinto has predicted its new approach to Aboriginal heritage will fundamentally change the way it runs its mining operations.

Woodside Petroleum has joined other major resources companies in putting its climate report to a non-binding advisory vote of shareholders next year.

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.