
Western Copper and Gold announces investment by Rio Tinto
Western Copper and Gold Corp. has announced a strategic investment by Rio Tinto Canada in its copper-gold Casino Project.
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Western Copper and Gold Corp. has announced a strategic investment by Rio Tinto Canada in its copper-gold Casino Project.

BHP, Rio Tinto, and Vale have launched the Charge On Innovation Challenge, a global competition for technology innovators to develop new concepts for large-scale haul truck electrification systems.

Rio Tinto has entered into an agreement with Turquoise Hill Resources for an updated funding plan for the completion of the Oyu Tolgoi Underground Project in Mongolia.

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California, USA.

Rio Tinto has selected Heliogen’s solar technology to provide carbon-free energy to its borates mine in Boron, California.

Rio Tinto will begin construction on a new plant that will recover tellurium, a critical mineral used in solar panels, from copper refining at its Kennecott mine near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Rio Tinto has to date awarded contracts valued at over US$385 million (AUS$500 million) to local Western Australian and Pilbara Aboriginal businesses to support the latest development of its Greater Tom Price Operations.

Rio Tinto has secured a new commercial freight shipping service connecting Western Australia’s Pilbara region to the major international shipping hub of Singapore.

The Resolution Copper project has entered the next phase of public consultation in the ongoing permitting process, led by the US Forest Service, with the release of its independent final environmental impact statement.

Rio Tinto has appointed Jakob Stausholm as Chief Executive, effective 1 January 2021.

Rio Tinto has disclosed to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) a maiden ore reserve and updated mineral resource at the 100% owned Jadar lithium-borates project in western Serbia.

Rio Tinto’s Argyle mine in the remote east Kimberley region of Western Australia has celebrated its final day of mining.