Rio Tinto continues to be beset by multiple challenges, with its Pilbara iron ore operations just meeting annual shipment guidance and now facing a series of commissioning delays.
Rio Tinto has joined fellow Pilbara miners Fortescue Metals Group and Roy Hill Holdings in acquiring battery-electric locomotives as part of plans to curb carbon emissions.
Rio Tinto has signed a deal to buy the Rincon lithium project in Argentina for $US825 million ($A1.2 billion) as majors eye a supply crunch later this decade.
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Canadian Ambassador to China and McKinsey & Company mainstay Dominic Barton will take over as chair of Rio Tinto from May 2022, as the company navigates a post-Juukan Gorge era.
Mining giant Rio Tinto paid more than $1 billion in royalties to four Perth families last year as a result of deals struck by their forebears in the 1960s.
Andrew Forrest may have high hopes for green hydrogen, but plans revealed by Fortescue today to develop the Belinga project in West Africa indicate iron ore pursuits show no sign of slowing.
A dozen WA-linked businesses paid more than a fifth of Australia's corporate tax take between them in the 2020 financial year, with Rio Tinto the nation's top contributor.
Iron ore miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group have announced new measures to reduce their environmental impact, including ‘greener' locomotives.
Austin Engineering has delivered its 1,000th truck body to Rio Tinto's iron ore division, while Forrestfield-based Schlam won a $110 million contract from BHP.
Engineering and construction company Monadelphous has secured new contracts and extensions with mining majors BHP and Rio Tinto, worth about $110 million.
SRG Global has won seven contracts including from Rio Tinto and Roy Hill, while Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has secured work at BHP's Pilbara accommodation villages.
Fortescue Metals shares had their biggest gain of the year but the Australian market slumped on concerns of how US authorities will respond to the biggest rise in inflation in 31 years.
Export revenue has become increasingly concentrated on iron ore but WA has still benefitted, while moves to net zero now dominate thinking. Click for the list of WA's biggest exporters.
Businessman Sam Walsh has been awarded The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for his contributions to economic relations between Japan and Australia.
Perth-based diamond explorer Burgundy Diamond Mines has acquired one of five ‘hero' stones available at Rio Tinto's final 2021 Argyle pink diamonds tender from a Singaporean company, it is understood.
The value of state government contracts awarded to Aboriginal businesses has fallen by 21 per cent over the past year though the number of contracts has risen.
Rio Tinto's iron ore chief executive has told a parliamentary inquiry into sexual harassment in the mining industry he is “sickened” by recent events, as FMG unveiled its new alcohol policy.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has been hit with an $80,000 fine today after three of the company's Pilbara-based workers were exposed to extreme heat without adequate training.
Rio Tinto plans a huge investment in wind and solar power to help reduce its direct and indirect carbon emissions by 50 per cent by 2030, more than triple its previous target.
Civmec has secured three maintenance and capital works contracts worth $130 million with mining majors Rio Tinto and BHP, taking its total order book to more than $1 billion.
A parliamentary inquiry reviewing the Juukan Gorge controversy recommends the federal government take responsibility for Aboriginal heritage and pushes for changes to WA legislation.
Iron ore production at Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations dropped by four per cent over the September quarter as the resources giant continued to feel the pinch of a strained labour market in the state.
Rio Tinto is considering the use of sustainable technology in its steelmaking process, joining the likes of Fortescue and BHP in tackling the iron ore sector's emissions challenge.
