Global miners BHP and Rio Tinto have formed a partnership agreement to accelerate the development of technology that could significantly increase water recovery from mine tailings, and in turn reduce potential safety risks and environmental footprints associated with tailings storage facilities. The first project will involve testing the [...]
Rio Tinto has issued an open letter to the shareholders of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. outlining the future of TRQ and reiterating its long-term commitment to Oyu Tolgoi. Dear Turquoise Hill Shareholders, Since Rio Tinto's approach in March to acquire Turquoise Hill Resources you may have heard many views about the merits of our proposal. Today [...]
Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm, said: "Delivering the full potential of our assets remains a priority: production improved versus the prior quarter across most of our sites, particularly where we have implemented the Rio Tinto Safe Production System . We progressed our excel in development objective, commissioning some major projects and [...]
Rio Tinto and Wright Prospecting Pty Ltd have agreed to modernise the joint venture covering the Rhodes Ridge project in the East Pilbara in Western Australia, home to one of the world's largest and highest quality undeveloped iron ore deposits. The binding joint venture updates an existing agreement between the two parties dating back to 1972 and [...]
Scania and Rio Tinto are developing more agile autonomous haul trucks at a mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region to pursue potential environmental and productivity benefits. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221013005604/en/ A Scania autonomous truck is loaded at Rio [...]
Rio Tinto is partnering with the Government of Canada to invest up to C$737 million over the next eight years to decarbonise its Rio Tinto Fer et Titane operations in Sorel-Tracy, Québec, and to position the business as a centre of excellence for critical minerals processing. The partnership will support technological innovations that represent a [...]
Rio Tinto has published its second progress report on Communities and Social Performance practices, which includes direct feedback from Traditional Owners and details the actions the company has taken to rebuild relationships with Indigenous peoples and external stakeholders. As part of efforts to increase transparency in its approach to cultural [...]
Richard's Bay Minerals will be supplied with renewable solar power through an agreement with international energy company Voltalia and local Black Economic Empowerment partners, for its operation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Under the agreement, Voltalia will begin construction of the Bolobedu Solar PV renewable energy project in 2023, at a site [...]
Rio Tinto welcomes Energy Resources of Australia's announcement today that it will renew its independent board committee to introduce new perspectives to address the material cost and schedule overruns on the critical Ranger rehabilitation project in Australia's Northern Territory. Rio Tinto chief executive Australia Kellie Parker said "We thank [...]
Rio Tinto has requested the resignation of Energy Resources of Australia's Chairman Peter Mansell to allow for board renewal and introduce new perspectives to address the material cost and schedule overruns on the critical Ranger rehabilitation project in Australia's Northern Territory. Following announcement of the cost and schedule overruns in [...]
Rio Tinto has started producing spodumene concentrate, a mineral used in the production of lithium for batteries, at a demonstration plant in its Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Quebec Operations in our metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Canada. The plant will demonstrate at industrial scale a new spodumene concentration process that provides [...]
Rio Tinto has approved a $55 million[1] investment in development capital to start underground mining and expand production at its Kennecott copper operations in Utah, United States. Underground mining will initially focus on an area known as the Lower Commercial Skarn , which will deliver a total of around 30kt[2] of additional high quality mined copper [...]