News Articles for Rio Tinto

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.

Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm has spoken candidly about the miner's pledge to reduce emissions, saying in hindsight he regrets setting a target for as soon as 2025.

Rio Tinto chief executive officer Jakob Stausholm has indicated the Simandou project in Guinea might not be such a big threat to Western Australia's iron ore industry after all.

Grounded Construction has won a $140 million contract to build Albemarle's Kemerton plant workforce village.

Western Australian jeweller Solid Gold Diamonds has debuted a $2 million piece containing one of just 12 deep pink diamonds unearthed from Rio Tinto's closed Argyle mine.

Technology company Schrole has furthered its relationship with mining giant Rio Tinto after securing $655,000 worth of work.

Support for constitutional change is firming in business and political circles despite hesitancy in some quarters to take a stance on the issue.

Western Australia's resources industry has smashed another annual record, with weaker iron ore prices made up for by the state's flourishing lithium sector and soaring oil and gas prices.

Jordan Murray speaks with senior journalist Matt Mckenzie about how troubles facing Modco Residential highlight broader issues facing the building industry.

Rio Tinto has reported record first-quarter iron ore shipments as it continues to benefit from strong commodity prices, while China's iron ore imports are at record levels.

WA's new Aboriginal heritage laws have been broadly welcomed but raised concerns about the capacity of Indigenous corporations to deliver on their new responsibilities.

Ravensthorpe miner First Quantum Minerals has inked a deal under which it will invest up to $651 million for a majority stake in a copper project in Peru with Rio Tinto.

The Supreme Court of Western Australia has ruled on what should be redacted from documents related to the legal proceedings between Mineral Resources and Destec.

CIMIC Group subsidiary CPB Contractors has locked in $105 million worth of work at BHP Nickel West's Mt Keith project in the northern Goldfields.

Engineering firm Monadelphous Group has secured $125 million worth of contracts from Rio Tinto, BHP and Albemarle Lithium.

Former politician and prominent board director Ben Wyatt has been announced as the new chair of Perth Festival, which has also appointed three new members to its board.