Rio Tinto has named Matthew Holcz as the permanent chief executive of an expanded iron ore business, while senior executives Kellie Parker and Sinead Kaufman have lost their jobs.
Rio Tinto's inaugural diamond tender attracted buyers from the Kimberley through to Japan seeking to get their hands on the miner's legacy inventory of pink and red Argyle diamonds.
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.
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.
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.
Rio Tinto employees have dominated a list of 16 executives and key operational players based in Western Australia that feature in the 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining.
