News Articles for Rio Tinto

WA's freight rail network is a major bugbear for business, Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti says, as the state government begins negotiations to buy it back.

Anthony Albanese says an exemption from the US' 25 per cent steel and aluminium import tariffs is “under consideration” by the Trump Administration, after the two leaders spoke.

The state government will begin building another desalination plant in the Pilbara by the end of the decade to ease pressure on the region's aquifers.

Concern is growing about water use in Australia's economic powerhouse, with another water-intensive industry on the way.

Rio Tinto will take its Pilbara arts exhibition across the seas to London for the first time to mark the 20th anniversary of the event.

Heavy rain flooded a railcar dumper, cut off access roads, and stopped trains on Rio Tinto's Pilbara iron ore network.

BHP has reiterated its appetite for copper after the completion of a US$4 billion deal for Toronto-listed Filo Corp, locking in a plan to pursue the metal in South America alongside Lundin Mining.

Rio Tinto expects inflation and lower production from its Pilbara iron ore mines to push costs to the upper end of 2024 guidance, as it navigates the impacts of rainfall and slow approvals.

ABx Group's 83 per cent owned subsidiary ALCORE is set to produce aluminium fluoride at the company's pilot plant, which will be established at a facility adjacent to Rio Tinto Aluminium's Bell Bay smelter in northern Tasmania. ALCORE plans to prove its world-first process to produce hydrogen fluoride from smelter waste, which will then be converted into aluminium fluoride, essential for the aluminium smelter industry.

The first biodiesel-fueled bulk carrier to make the voyage between China and the Pilbara has arrived at anchor outside the Port of Port Hedland.

WA's largest indigenous trust has reported a huge jump in annual revenue after recording $166 million in royalty payments from Rio Tinto but this was not enough to resolve a long-running dispute.

The Pilbara's iron ore miners have been left waiting longer than expected for their emissions-busting battery electric locomotives to arrive.

Mining heavyweight BHP has told the market it's been served with a class action over allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at both its and Rio Tinto's workplaces.

Falling commodity prices and growing budget deficits should provide the impetus for Australia to build a green iron industry, according to the boss of Fortescue Metals.

BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside Energy and BlueScope will partner on an electric smelter ironmaking pilot project at Kwinana, as part of the state's green iron push.

Mining heavyweight Rio Tinto is set to pour $2.5 billion into the expansion of its Rincon lithium project in Argentina as it builds on its battery metals portfolio.

Energy infrastructure builder APA Group has laid claim to a land area larger than Perth to progress the rollout of its Pilbara renewable energy ambitions.

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Rio Tinto will trial blending renewable diesel with traditional fuel at its Pilbara iron ore operations as an interim measure to reduce its carbon footprint.

Indonesian and Japanese investors have taken a liking to WA copper projects as Rio Tinto and BHP talk up the metal's future.

Shareholder returns were not always reflected in the scale and growth of public-listed executive pay packets last financial year.

An indigenous-owned Pilbara renewable energy plant has breezed through planning approval, clearing the way for the $200 million project to be green-lit.

Japanese giant Sumitomo Metal Mining has forked out $615m for a stake in Rio Tinto's big Western Australian copper discovery.

Leichhardt Industrial Group's $375 million purchase of Rio Tinto's Lake MacLeod salt project near Carnarvon has been completed.

Rio Tinto has substantially reduced the scale of two major iron ore projects in the Pilbara to progress environmental approvals and gain backing from traditional owners.

Mining, government and supermarkets continue to dominate WA's jobs figures despite upheaval in some sectors.

It has been a long time since big investors started spruiking plans for new salt projects in the north-west.

Rio Tinto will move to full control of Energy Resources of Australia, taking its full allocation of an entitlement offer which will bring its stake in the Ranger uranium project owner to 98 per cent.

Rio Tinto has published the findings of its workplace culture review, which showed staff still experienced unacceptable and harmful behaviours.

Low water triggers at an aquifer critical to the Pilbara's development have been breached, according to Traditional Owners, due to water abstraction and low rainfall.

The union movement has accused WA's mining lobby of “hyper-aggressive” campaigning against its activities in the Pilbara, while warning of an extreme politics push among blue collar workers.

A Pilbara Aboriginal corporation has accused the WA government of mismanaging an aquifer critical to a national park and Karratha's drinking water supply.

Iron ore miner Rio Tinto is pressing ahead with development of a pilot plant south of Perth to test the merits of local green iron production.

Perth company Wright Prospecting has reported another massive profit as its low-key owners reap the benefits of an iron ore royalties deal negotiated more than 50 years ago.

After several barnstorming years for the commodity markets that fuel WA's economy, headwinds buffeting most sectors are growing.

WA's Aboriginal affairs minister has refused a section 18 application for a proposed iron ore mine at the centre of a spat between its backer and traditional owners.

Antipa Minerals has finalised the $17 million cash sale of its non-controlling stake in the Citadel joint venture project with Rio Tinto Exploration.

Pilbara ore shipments have remained comparable to 2023, while progress at Simandou has boosted Rio Tinto's Guinea workforce.

Fleetwood has struck a deal with the contractor building Perdaman's $6.4 billion urea plant on the Burrup Peninsula to house staff at its Karratha workforce camp.

A $5 billion desalination plant mooted for a remote patch of Pilbara coastline has garnered interest from BP.