News Articles for Rio Tinto

Anthony Albanese has praised the Pilbara's resources sector for keeping the nation's schools and hospitals running on a flying visit to Australia's iron ore heartland.

WA continues to take one step forward, two step backwards on Aboriginal self-determination

Rio Tinto and its joint venture partners have laid the foundations with the Guinea government to build more than 600 kilometres of new rail lines needed for the mammoth Simandou project.

The lobby group for big business has backed up its support for a Voice to Parliament by disclosing its members have substantially boosted their Indigenous employment and procurement.

Minerals hopeful Carnaby Resources has notched a joint venture deal with mining giant Rio Tinto to explore tenements in Queensland.

Rio Tinto has told shareholders it won't be able to meet decarbonisation ambitions without the help of carbon offsets, months after chief Jakob Stausholm expressed regret about the targets he set.

Rio Tinto has reported a big fall in interim earnings and dividends from last year's highs, though its core Pilbara iron ore business fared better than other operations.

Rio Tinto has entered a joint venture agreement with North American company Giampaolo Group to manufacture and market recycled aluminium products.

WA's startup ecosystem is growing, as a recent series of events for international visitors hosted in Perth attests.

Descendants of two WA mining pioneers are gearing up for a legal battle more than a decade in the making over iron ore royalties believed to be worth billions of dollars.

Investigations will continue despite the WA Radiological Council having cleared Rio Tinto over the radioactive capsule that went missing en route from the mining giant's Gudai-Darri mine.

Rio Tinto has reported strong Pilbara iron ore production and upped its annual guidance while also disclosing a doubling in its spend on evaluation of projects in other sectors.

Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will trial hydrogen calcination technology at Yarwun Alumina refinery after a $32.1 million funding boost from the Australian government.

Everest Metals' Rover project is set to be hit with the drillbit this week when Rio Tinto Exploration kicks off a seven-hole, 1400m reverse-circulation (RC) program. The new campaign will target potential pegmatite-hosted lithium mineralisation beneath weathered outcrop at the project's northernmost tenement in the Central Yilgarn region of Western Australia – an area undergoing a resurgence in exploration.

Perth-founded Advanced Navigation and The University of Western Australia will receive a share of $40 million funding ahead of NASA's planned return of astronauts to the moon in 2025.

Still paying the reputational price for blowing up sacred caves, Rio Tinto has told a global mining forum it is driving cultural change across the business.

SRG Global has won $65 million worth of work after its Bugarrba Aboriginal joint venture secured a contract from BHP and it won two contracts in Queensland.

Local contractors will share in a raft of new work building the iron ore mine being developed by Rio Tinto and Chinese steel major Baowu Group.

Accommodation developer Fleetwood Australia will provide Rio Tinto with up to $120 million worth of additional rooms at its accommodation village in Karratha.

Rio Tinto has pulled the pin on exploring critical minerals within the state's jarrah forests, hot on the heels of Alcoa's call to enact a ‘no mining zone' around the town of Dwellingup.

Rio Tinto has given the green light on a $733 million investment to bump production at its copper mine in the United States.

An anticipated strategy paper from the federal government outlining a plan to cement Australia's place in the global critical minerals furore has seemingly fallen short of expectations.

DiscovEx Resources can tick heritage surveys off its to-do list ahead of planned drilling at the Contact prospect within its Sylvania project in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Drilling at the 2.5km-long target area is due to begin in August, in addition to geophysics targeting copper-gold and lead-zinc mineralisation at the project's Prairie Downs fault zone.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has secured a pipeline of contracts valued at $120 million from Rio Tinto, BHP and South32.

Fortescue is the second company after Rio Tinto this week to partner with world's biggest steelmaker China Baowu in a bid to reduce emissions associated with iron and steel making.

Our board moves wrap includes Peter Gilford, Daniel Kendall, ShuQing Xiao, ShuBiao Tao, Ivan Vella, and Candice Van Der Plas.

Efforts to revive manufacturing in WA have been boosted by a $150 million deal between Gemco Rail and Rio Tinto to build 100 iron ore wagons and certain components locally.

Battery metals miner IGO has found a new chief executive in Ivan Vella, a long-serving Rio Tinto executive whose career includes a stint as iron ore boss in the aftermath of Juukan Gorge.

Rio Tinto has struck an agreement with the world's biggest steelmaker, China Baowu, to collaborate on projects aimed to reduce carbon emissions in the industry.

Indigenous business leaders have shared their stories and set an agenda to achieve more progress in the fast-growing sector.

Rio Tinto will spend $US395 million ($A597 million) building a desalination plant in a two-year construction effort to increase water supply for its Pilbara operations.

WA's north-west generates enormous wealth for the country but not so much for local communities.

NRW Holdings has secured a $54 million contract with Rio Tinto for work at the miners Western Range iron ore project in the Pilbara.

Mining giant Rio Tinto has topped long-time market leader Fortescue Metals Group as the biggest supporter of Indigenous businesses in WA, data compiled by Business News shows.

WA produces a diverse array of minerals, yet one commodity dominates the sector.

Questions are being asked about the future of WA's gas supplies amid increasing pressure on emissions.

Karratha-based mining services provider PLI has been awarded a $21 million contract from Rio Tinto for work across 22 mine sites in the Pilbara.

Junior miner Trek Metals has reached a deal with Rio Tinto for exploration activities at its nickel and copper project in the Pilbara.

The pipeline of big resources projects in WA increasingly features complex processing plants, despite a spate of large cost blowouts on projects currently under way.

Journalists Jack McGinn and Claire Tyrrell discuss the $80.5 million Carillon City deal.