Australian iron ore major Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) said on Friday it would re-evaluate an expansion plan at one of its iron ore mines in the Pilbara region, after an Indigenous group said the project threatened sacred sites, including a 60,000-year-old rock shelter.
News ID: 9811 Publish Date : 2020/08/09
Australian iron ore producers accounted for the largest share of operating profits in the entire resources sector, including upstream oil and gas and coal mining, during the 2018-19 fiscal year to 30 June. The resources sector, at 8pc of the economy, accounted for more than a fifth of all industry profits.
News ID: 9642 Publish Date : 2020/05/31
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) announced this weekend that it is introducing covid-19 testing at its Diavik diamond mine in Canada.
News ID: 9465 Publish Date : 2020/05/11
Rio Tinto shareholders in Australia voted on Thursday against forcing the miner to set targets for the emissions of its steel-making customers, but the issue is unlikely to go away as more than a third supported the motion.
News ID: 9402 Publish Date : 2020/05/08
Rio Tinto ’s top investors are set to face off at the company’s upcoming annual meeting, with only some of them in favor of pushing the miner to extend the range of its targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
News ID: 9396 Publish Date : 2020/05/06
Rio Tinto came out with open hands to support local community efforts to fight COVID-19 and its social and economic impacts. The metals and mining giant is contributing $10 million in a multiple of grassroots projects across Canada and the United States.
News ID: 9308 Publish Date : 2020/05/04
UK-Australian mining firm Rio Tinto has added a clause to its bunker supply contracts to ensure vessels it hires are not using fuel supplied by troubled Singapore-based trading firm Hin Leong.
News ID: 9237 Publish Date : 2020/04/27
In addition to the New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) at Tiwai Point, Rio Tinto ’s other aluminium laboratories such as its Tasmania’s Bell Bay site, the Yarwun refinery in Gladstone have all become the temporary hand sanitiser development hotspots. The mining giant aims to ease the demand for hand sanitiser products during the COVID19 pandemic, as well as to help prevent the spread among its own staff.
News ID: 9161 Publish Date : 2020/04/15
On a global scale, work is grinding to a halt and operations at mines are being temporarily suspended as majors and minors move to enact measures to protect against the spread of covid-19.
News ID: 8901 Publish Date : 2020/03/27
Plummeting aluminium prices due to the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on demand are unlikely to persuade producers to immediately cut output as input costs have also fallen, leaving the market with massive surpluses.
News ID: 8898 Publish Date : 2020/03/27
Australia’s iron ore giants are looking to reduce the threat to their operations from a coronavirus pandemic, by pushing workers to spend weeks on site away from families and relocate from the eastern seaboard, company and union officials said on Friday.
News ID: 8892 Publish Date : 2020/03/28
Primary aluminium production was unaffected by coronavirus in February, but producers are now curtailing operations because of government measures intended to contain the pandemic or because of the lack of demand from end markets.
News ID: 8837 Publish Date : 2020/03/24
Jean-Sebastien Jacques, CEO, Rio Tinto , will be meeting the federal and State Government ministers of Australia about to discuss on the future of Tomago Aluminium smelter.
News ID: 8593 Publish Date : 2020/03/06
UK-Australian mining firm Rio Tinto expects a challenging next six months as it battles supply chain disruptions from the coronavirus outbreak that could delay major projects, an inflationary cost environment and the aftermath of Cyclone Damien that hit Western Australia earlier this month.
News ID: 8503 Publish Date : 2020/02/26
Rio Tinto on Friday posted a 3% drop in iron ore shipments in 2019 as the Anglo-Australian miner’s operations faced disruptions due to cyclone and a fire at a port facility.
News ID: 8308 Publish Date : 2020/01/16
MINING.COM’s ranking of the world’s 50 largest mining companies based on market value show a revived industry entering the 2020s, but with diverging fortunes for certain subsectors.
News ID: 8293 Publish Date : 2020/01/03
Rio Tinto , the global mining and metals production firm says it has started securing orders for its new aluminium alloy wheel known as Revolution-AI.
News ID: 8272 Publish Date : 2020/01/09
Liberty House Chairman Sanjeev Gupta is reportedly considering buying the Portland aluminium smelter in Victoria, in an attempt to save the Australian facility from likely closure.
News ID: 7990 Publish Date : 2019/12/17
Multi-commodity developer Savannah Resources (AIM:SAV) said on Monday that its subsidiary in Mozambique had secured a mining licence for the Mutamba heavy minerals sands project from the country’s government.
News ID: 7859 Publish Date : 2019/12/09
The world’s biggest iron ore miners are looking for novel ways of satisfying their customers and protecting market share in the $150 billion global industry.
News ID: 7856 Publish Date : 2019/12/05