Rio Tinto is investing over $510 million in sustainable power generation to support expansion of its iron ore mining capacity in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
A third party access scheme for the Pilbara rail is making Australia’s mining giants hot under the collar.
RIO Tinto Iron Ore has announced it will start a fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) commute roster from Carnarvon.
RIO Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) and Komatsu are making the mine of the future a reality.
RIO Tinto will purchase three 250,000 deadweight tonne ore carriers to transport iron ore from its mines in the Pilbara in Western Australia (and potentially from Simandou in Guinea) to customers in China and elsewhere.
THE Hope Downs Joint Venture (managed by Rio Tinto) has approved a feasibility study to expand the Hope Downs 4 project as part of the Rio Tinto program to reach a Pilbara annual capacity of 320 million tonnes of iron ore by 2012.
MINING workers in the Pilbara have been offered weekly flights from Busselton to Rio Tinto’s iron ore mines in the East Pilbara following increasing labour shortages.
THE mining industry has been on the lips of economic forecasters and shareholders this week, as BHP Billiton revealed it wants to buy Rio Tinto
RIO Tinto and The University of Queensland (UQ) have signed a five-year $2 million partnership to address skills shortages in the mining engineering sector within Queensland.
THE first shipment of what will shortly represent 15% of traded world seaborne iron ore has been loaded at Dampier in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.