Mining giant Rio Tinto has posted a 20 per cent jump in annual underlying earnings and declared a bumper dividend as it reaped the benefits of sustained high iron ore prices.
Rio Tinto has hired indigenous community leader Wayne Bergmann to help improve relations with traditional owners as it continues to grapple with fallout from the Juukan Gorge controversy.
National construction company Georgiou Group has secured the non-process infrastructure contract for the second phase of Rio Tinto's Western Turner Syncline mine expansion.
Mining giant Rio Tinto has taken the extraordinary step of publicly acknowledging it should have communicated recent executive changes to the PKKP people in a more collaborative way.
Iron ore monolith, Rio Tinto has signed up to a 3-year software-as-a-service contract with ASX-listed tech player, K2fly. Rio will make use of K2fly's Infoscope software platform to manage very sensitive heritage information across its iron ore mining operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region. K2fly said the total contract value for the deal with Rio was set at A$719,000.
As firefighters attempt to contain an out-of-control blaze in Perth's east, the state's peak resources body has established an initiative to raise much-needed funds.
Simon Trott has been appointed iron ore chief executive at Rio Tinto, as part of a shake-up that leaves its management team weighted heavily in favour of its head office in London.
ASX-listed contractor Civmec has secured new work across its maintenance, manufacturing, and construction divisions including with the likes of BHP and Rio Tinto.
China’s iron ore imports hit a record volume last year, helping to explain the surprising strength in the commodity’s price and underpinning higher profits for the big miners.Prelimi
City of Perth councillors have accepted thousands of dollars' worth of gifts since October, with Perron Group, Rio Tinto and Primewest among a notable list of benefactors.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Carmel Barbagallo, Christian Rasmussen, Helen Ockerby, Brad Haynes, Brent Fleeton, Nic Bowen, Amber Crosthwaite, Jennifer Keane, Rebekah O'Brien, John Guyer and Rob Donovan.
Today's board moves wrap includes Michael Freiberg, Paul Claessen, Ben Hammond, Krystel Kirou, Henko Vos, Jakob Stausholm, Peter Cunningham, Jean-Sebastien Jacques, and Paul Chisholm.
Rio Tinto's chief financial officer Jakob Stausholm will take over as chief executive after several company leaders resigned following the destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves in the Pilbara
A scathing parliamentary report into Rio Tinto's destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves has found responsibility lay across industry and government, but its recommendations have not all been accepted by the mining lobby. or the WA government.
Andrew Forrest is $2.7 billion richer after the iron ore price rose to a seven-year high, while Chris Ellison's stake in Mineral Resources has grown by $53.4 million.
Oil and gas producer Inpex has joined other big companies in the resources sector by permanently shifting east coast fly-in, fly-out workers to Western Australia.
Deep Yellow is launching back into uranium exploration at its Nova joint venture in Namibia with 13 reverse circulation holes planned across its 4km long Barking Gecko prospect. The drill program is designed to confirm bedrock mineralisation similar in nature to the nearby tier one Rossing mine.
Rio Tinto has changed the name of its new iron ore mine to Gudai-Darri after a request from Banjima elders, one small step in the miner's efforts to rebuild trust with traditional owners.
Our board moves wrap includes Anna Neuling, Wayne Bramwell, Adam Sierakowski, Stephen Lowe, Neil Tomkinson, Matthew Bull, Brian Thomas, and David Constable.
A parliamentary committee examining Rio Tinto's destruction of the ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelters will visit the sacred Western Australian sites next week.
Fortescue Metals Group has posted a 5 per cent rise in first-quarter iron ore shipments, with demand in China for the steelmaking ingredient remaining robust.
BHP has posted a 7.2 per cent rise in first-quarter iron ore production, supported by stable demand from China, the world's top consumer of the steelmaking ingredient.
