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4 days, 4 hours ago

Palliser Capital to table motion on Rio Tinto's London listing

More than 100 Rio Tinto shareholders have called for a resolution that could see the miner quit its primary London listing and unify its corporate structure. Palliser's initial proposal to unify Rio Tinto's dual-listed structure garnered widespread support from stakeholders, analysts and investors across Australia and the UK, the hedge fund said. Resolution: Activist investor Palliser Capital and over 100 …

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1 week, 4 days ago

BHP, Rio Tinto: Women take on mining giants in sexual harassment class action cases

CNN

Brisbane, Australia CNN — Lawyers for women who claim they’ve been sexually harassed while working for global mining giants BHP and Rio Tinto say they’ve been inundated with emails since filing two class action cases in an Australian court. “BHP and Rio know that when you send women to these sites, it is unsafe for them, and they are still …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Rio Tinto-backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

Live Mint

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE -A lithium technology startup backed by Rio Tinto expects to finalise a funding round in the next week to raise A$29 million, even as the global lithium market struggles, its Melbourne-based CEO told Reuters. ElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or chemicals, which would be key …

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backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

Live Mint

By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE, Nov 25 - A lithium technology startup backed by Rio Tinto expects to finalise a funding round in the next week to raise A$29 million, even as the global lithium market struggles, its Melbourne-based CEO told Reuters. ElectraLith is developing a filtration technology that can extract lithium from brine deposits without using water or chemicals, which …

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1 month ago

Rio Tinto says sexual harassment, racism still happening at miner

Live Mint

Rio Tinto is finding it difficult to stamp out sexual harassment, racism and bullying as it faces resistance and backlash from some workers to its efforts to overhaul the culture of one of the world’s biggest miners. That is a key finding of a report published on Wednesday that assessed Rio Tinto’s response to an external review in 2021 that …

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Rio Tinto employees report rise in bullying, sexual assault

Al Jazeera

Half of survey respondents also say mining giant’s workplace culture has improved ‘a lot’ or ‘a little’. More than one-third of workers at Rio Tinto experienced bullying in the previous 12 months, a progress review has found, nearly three years after the mining giant pledged to tackle pervasive sexism and racism in the workplace. Among the nearly 12,000 surveyed Rio …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Global mining firms step up efforts to expand presence

China Daily

Brazilian mining company Vale's booth at the ongoing China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Thursday. Global mining enterprises are stepping up efforts to expand their presence in China, attracted by the country's vast market and recent moves toward broader economic opening, said company executives and industry experts. Jakob Stausholm, CEO of Rio Tinto Group, said during an interview on …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Global mining firms step up efforts to expand presence

China Daily

Brazilian mining company Vale's booth at the ongoing China International Import Expo in Shanghai on Thursday. Global mining enterprises are stepping up efforts to expand their presence in China, attracted by the country's vast market and recent moves toward broader economic opening, said company executives and industry experts. Jakob Stausholm, CEO of Rio Tinto Group, said during an interview on …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Mining giant Rio Tinto breaks ranks to back Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek nature protection reforms

ABC

One of the world's largest mining companies has broken ranks with much of the industry to support Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's stalled push for a national environmental regulator. Rio Tinto late on Tuesday lent support to federal government legislation that would prioritise and reform 25-year-old environmental laws that better protect "Australia's national environmental and culturally significant places and species" while …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Landmark report uncovers human rights abuses at Rio Tinto gold mine in Bougainville, 35 years after closure

ABC

A large-scale study of social and environmental impacts from Rio Tinto's abandoned Panguna mine in Bougainville has found a plethora of actual and potential human rights violations, including risks to life. The Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment was initiated in the wake of a human rights complaint brought by The Human Rights Law Centre on behalf of about 170 Bougainvilleans …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Indigenous group takes fight against Rio Tinto Arizona copper mine to US Supreme Court

Hindustan Times

By Ernest Scheyder Indigenous group takes fight against Rio Tinto Arizona copper mine to US Supreme Court Sept 11 - A Native American group on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block Rio Tinto and BHP from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world's largest copper mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Rio Tinto CEO in Serbia seeks to reassure over lithium mine

Hindustan Times

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto's chief executive sought to reassure locals during a visit to Serbia on Saturday over his company's controversial lithium mining project, local media reported. Rio Tinto CEO in Serbia seeks to reassure over lithium mine Serbia has vast lithium deposits near the western town of Loznica and the mining project has been a perennial political fault …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Rio Tinto, China firms keen on Guinea assets

China Daily

Visitors check out Rio Tinto's booth during a supply chain expo in Beijing in December. "Our partnership with Chinese companies on the Simandou project, which will become Africa's largest integrated infrastructure and mining project once completed, is groundbreaking," said Gerard Rheinberger, managing director of Simandou, Rio Tinto. In August, Rio Tinto SimFer, a joint venture between the government of the …

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4 months ago

A lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe's e-vehicles, but opposition is fierce

NPR

A lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe's e-vehicles, but opposition is fierce toggle caption Darko Vojinovic/AP JADAR VALLEY, Serbia — Vladan Jakovljevic’s bees are angry. After the Balkan wars of the 1990s, British Australian mining company Rio Tinto began drilling exploratory wells in Jadar Valley, confirming that it has one of Europe’s largest deposits of lithium. There’s lithium …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Thousands protest in Serbia’s Belgrade against lithium mining project

Al Jazeera

Protesters say they fear project by mining giant Rio Tinto would pollute water sources and endanger public health. In advance of Saturday’s rally in Belgrade, two leading protest figures said they were briefly detained by security officials who warned that any moves to block roads during the demonstration would be seen as illegal. Serbia has vast lithium deposits near the …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Residents of Serbia’s lithium-rich region vow to block EU-backed mining

Associated Press

GORNJE NEDELJICE, Serbia — Zlatko Kokanović does not want a lithium mine in his backyard and he will do anything he can to stop it from opening. “This land is nobody’s property, it belongs to our children.” Exploration of the lithium and boron deposits in the Jadar valley has been done by multinational Rio Tinto mining company for 20 years. …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Political deadlock frustrates Bougainville’s aspirations of independence

Al Jazeera

The territory voted in 2019 to leave Papua New Guinea, but the country’s parliament is still to ratify the separation. It’s almost five years since the referendum, and there is still no positive response from the PNG government,” Barbara Tanne, president of the Bougainville Women’s Federation, told Al Jazeera. “After joint government meetings, the resolutions passed are not honoured …

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7 months ago

Rio Tinto Faces Lawsuit Over Panguna Copper Mine in Bougainville

Bloomberg

Thousands of people in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, have filed a class action lawsuit against Rio Tinto Plc and its former unit Bougainville Copper Ltd. over what they say is historical mismanagement of the massive Panguna copper mine. Panguna, which was operated by Bougainville Copper, shut in 1989 after local protests over the disbursement of revenue …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Rio Tinto autonomous train derailment left five workers shaken as they escaped potential harm, union says

ABC

In short: The mining company said no workers were in the vicinity, but the union says five staff were working further down the line. The Mining and Energy Union says rail workers were left "shaken" and narrowly escaped harm when the train they were repairing was struck by another in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Mining giant Rio Tinto said an …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Rio Tinto to further tap opportunities in nation's green transition

China Daily

Rio Tinto's booth is seen during the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai in November. Rio Tinto, the world's largest iron ore producer, has had more tie-ups and joint ventures with Chinese partners last year than ever before in its history, its top executive said, amid further opening-up and industrial reform that have provided massive business opportunities for multinational …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Nation powerful engine of global economic recovery, Rio Tinto exec says

China Daily

The Rio Tinto booth is seen during the sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai in November. Despite facing domestic and international challenges, China's economy demonstrated fundamental strength and resilience in 2023, and the country remains a powerful engine of global economic recovery, a top company executive said. "China outlined a strong and clear roadmap for its economic development in …

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10 months ago

China’s metal demand takes a different shape

Live Mint

The realization that China’s property bust is beginning to look semi-permanent isn’t welcome for big miners, which have long fed off the country’s housing demand. Indicators of China’s copper demand growth, particularly imports of copper ore and concentrate, still look solid—no surprise given the huge EV and green-power boom. The property market made up only 27% of China’s finished steel …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories is 6, authorities say

The Independent

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Plane crash leaves multiple dead in Canadian Northwest Territories

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Palliser Capital to table motion on Rio Tinto's London listing

BHP, Rio Tinto: Women take on mining giants in sexual harassment class action cases

Rio Tinto-backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

backed lithium tech startup set to raise second round of funds

Rio Tinto says sexual harassment, racism still happening at miner

Rio Tinto employees report rise in bullying, sexual assault

Global mining firms step up efforts to expand presence

Global mining firms step up efforts to expand presence

Mining giant Rio Tinto breaks ranks to back Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek nature protection reforms

Landmark report uncovers human rights abuses at Rio Tinto gold mine in Bougainville, 35 years after closure

Indigenous group takes fight against Rio Tinto Arizona copper mine to US Supreme Court

Rio Tinto CEO in Serbia seeks to reassure over lithium mine

Rio Tinto, China firms keen on Guinea assets

A lithium mine in Serbia could rev up Europe's e-vehicles, but opposition is fierce

Thousands protest in Serbia’s Belgrade against lithium mining project

Residents of Serbia’s lithium-rich region vow to block EU-backed mining

Political deadlock frustrates Bougainville’s aspirations of independence

Rio Tinto Faces Lawsuit Over Panguna Copper Mine in Bougainville

Rio Tinto autonomous train derailment left five workers shaken as they escaped potential harm, union says

Rio Tinto to further tap opportunities in nation's green transition

Nation powerful engine of global economic recovery, Rio Tinto exec says

China’s metal demand takes a different shape

The death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories is 6, authorities say

Plane crash leaves multiple dead in Canadian Northwest Territories