Rio Tinto to spend 'at least' $15m on exploration in Africa in 2007

Diversified mining major Rio Tinto plans to conclude its order-of-magnitude study at Chapudi in South Africa by second quarter of this year.?Exploration head Eric Finlayson reports that Rio Tinto has completed the resource delineation drilling for...

Top SA businesspeople give intellectual backing to new empowerment firm

A new entity for achieving broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) buy-in in the local resources sector has attracted the attention of one of the world’s largest mining companies, Rio Tinto.

Reputation-heavy SA junior in cooperation deal with diversified major

Recently-listed AfroCentric Investment Corporation and international mineral-resources company Rio Tinto have concluded a cooperation agreement covering exploration and mining-related opportunities locally and elsewhere in Southern Africa.