Alcoa has said that it expects a trouble-free transfer of its shareholding in Rio Tinto from a custodial account with Lehman Brothers International Europe in London.
21/10/2008
Brazilian mining giant Vale wants to kick-off iron ore benchmark price negotiations for 2010-11 some time this month.
18/11/2009
Rio Tinto bosses have been forced to defend the company's proposed deal with Chinalco.
16/04/2009
The price of copper climbed following Chile's earthquake over the weekend, which saw the halting of major copper mines.
02/03/2010
Rio Tinto has priced $US3.5 billion ($A4.80 billion) of fixed rate bonds in two parts.
15/04/2009
MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of Newcrest Mining Ltd Ian Smith has been elected the new Chairman of the Minerals Council of Australia.
20/03/2008
Rio Tinto has responded to claims the miner had secured assets sales worth a combined $2.4 billion.
02/02/2009
Fortescue Metals has reached an agreement in its shipping dispute with Classic Maritime.
28/05/2009
The market capitalisation of Western Australian listed companies within the Deloitte WA Index increased by 5.3% in August.
14/09/2009
Rio has been given an upgrade in its credit rating from Fitch Ratings.
22/02/2010
AUSTRALIA has cut its forecast for minerals export earnings for the second time this year as a result of the strengthening Australian dollar, according to a recently released Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) report
07/12/2007
A Biomedical Science PhD student from the Curtin University of Technology has won the 2008 AusBiotech GSK award for developing a strain of bacteria that can be used to solubilise mineral deposits.
17/11/2008
Greater Bendigo Gold Mines has been forced to put its operating company into voluntary administration, managing director John Cahill told MINING DAILY.
03/12/2008
Declining demand for aluminium has forced Alumina Ltd to reconsider plans to expand its Wagerup refinery in Western Australia.
16/01/2009
Rio Tinto will suspend diamond production in Western Australia for up to three months in response to flagging demand caused by the global financial crisis.
16/01/2009
Falling nickel prices has led to growing concern that BHP Billiton may be set to close the doors on its laterite nickel mine, Ravensthorpe, in Western Australia for good.
19/01/2009
Rio Tinto's non-executive director and incoming Chairman Jim Leng has resigned from the company's boards effective immediately.
09/02/2009
Fortescue Metals Group has proven itself to be one of Australia's busiest iron ore miners, with the company announcing the commencement of mining at its Christmas Creek Deposit in the Pilbara just hours before striking a $1.2 billion deal with China's Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group.
25/02/2009
Xstrata will shut down its Sinclair nickel mine.
14/04/2009
Wayne Swan has given the Green light to Minmetals' OZ Minerals deal.
24/04/2009