Company Announcement: Making the difference with pit-to-port infrastructure and materials handling: Aurecon at Mining Indaba

Engineering, management and specialist technical services group Aurecon will showcase at their stand how effective, integrated pit-to-port material handling solutions can make a measurable difference to mining projects at the annual 2012 Mining...

Company Announcement: Rio Tinto boosts driverless truck fleet to 150 under Mine of the FutureTM programme

Rio Tinto is to become the owner of the world’s largest fleet of driverless trucks after it signed a deal to buy at least 150 from Komatsu Limited over the next four years.

Rio Tinto to buy iron-ore from Australian junior

Diversified giant Rio Tinto has reached an agreement with Iron Ore Holdings (IOH) to buy up to 1,5-million tons of ore a year from the junior miner’s Phil Creek deposit in Australia. Rio Tinto would transport the iron-ore to the coast for...

Rio settles iron-ore contracts with most Asian customers

The second-biggest iron-ore producer, Rio Tinto, has settled 2009 supply contracts for the steelmaking ingredient with South Korean steel producer Posco and its Taiwanese counterparts CSC and Dragon, the miner announced on Monday. The contracts...

Consumption of iron ore skyrocketing

A worldwide iron-ore supply deficit of between 20-million tons and 25- million tons is likely in 2008, international financial services group Credit Suisse states. This deficit comes on the back of a high demand from steel mills. Credit Suisse...

Consumption of the ferrous metal skyrocketing

A worldwide iron ore supply deficit of between 20-million tons and 25-million tons is likely in 2008, international financial services group Credit Suisse states. This deficit comes on the back of a high demand from steel mills.

Rio Tinto brings on US$1,4bn iron-ore port upgrade in Australia

Still in the takeover sights of larger rival BHP Billiton, diversified miner Rio Tinto has shown its project efficiency in completing the $1,4-billion Dampier Port upgrade project in Western Australia on time and on budget. It has done so at a...

Rio Tinto to go ahead with $1bn iron-ore mine after gov't approval

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has announced it will immediately start construction of the $1-billion Hope Downs iron ore project in Western Australia, following Western Australian Government approval and the ratification of the Hope Downs Joint...

Rio Tinto in steel-technology deal

A Rio Tinto subsidiary last week signed a HIsmelt Process Licence with the Laiwu Steel Group of China to allow for the development of an iron-making facility using world leading HIsmelt technology.

Start planned for big Oz iron-ore mine in 2002

The feasibility study for the Hope Downs iron-ore project in the Pilbara region of Australia is due to be concluded at the end of the year by which time the technical evaluation and financial modelling will be in place and the appropriate...

SA firm plans Oz iron-ore mine construction by 2002

The feasibility study for the Hope Downs iron-ore project in the Pilbara region of Australia is due to be concluded at the end of the year by which time the technical evaluation and financial modelling will be in place and the appropriate...

Aussie iron-ore producers strike rail deal

The Robe River joint venture partners have reached agreement to share rail infrastructure with Rio Tinto’s Hamersley Iron. The agreement provides for joint use of iron-ore rail infrastructure in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and...