Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto’s water use dries sacred waterhole, Aboriginal group says
A sacred waterhole used for thousands of years has run dry for the first time in living memory, with Traditional Owners blaming years of unsustainable water pumping by Rio Tinto.
- Melanie Burton
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Rio Tinto forgoes delivery of 8 million litres of diesel to grow WA stockpile
Premier Roger Cook said he received the unsolicited fuel offer from Rio Tinto’s iron ore chief executive Matthew Holcz earlier this week.
- Hamish Hastie
- Opinion
- Iron ore
BHP has won the battle, but China’s $93b iron ore flex will continue
The stakes were huge in the brutal nine-month iron ore pricing stand-off between China and our largest miner - for the company, the industry and the Australian economy.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Billionaires
One group won the Rinehart v Wright case, and it wasn’t the brawling billionaires
But much like the generational brawl between the extended billionaire iron ore Wright and Rinehart families, the legal verdict was as messy as it was mixed.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Updated
- Gina Rinehart
Rinehart ordered to pay hundreds of millions to rival mining family
The billionaire descendants of iron ore pioneers Lang Hancock and Peter Wright have been locked in a bitter dispute over mining royalties for more than a decade.
- Heather McNeill and Rebecca Peppiatt
- Opinion
- Donald Trump
The conga line of Australian companies suing to claw back Trump tariffs
Mining giant Rio Tinto is running the legal gauntlet at the same time as it is seeking crucial support from the US for a massive copper mine in Arizona.
- Elizabeth Knight
‘Rules are in flux’: $2b bailout for Rio Tinto as Labor cites national sovereignty
The Albanese government is doubling down on its strategy to prop up the nation’s ailing manufacturing sector.
- Mike Foley
‘Front and centre’: Rio Tinto gets copper boost as it delivers $14.1b profit
The London and ASX-listed miner said it achieved a “strong operational performance” and increased its copper output 8 per cent.
- Simon Johanson
- Updated
- World markets
ASX closes higher for third day straight as NAB jumps; Santos cuts jobs
The Australian sharemarket ended the day in the green as investors digested a raft of company results, with National Australia Bank jumping after a trading update.
- Staff reporter
- Updated
- Mergers & acquisitions
‘Passed his first test’: Rio Tinto walks away from $300 billion mega-merger
Australia’s largest iron ore miner has abandoned takeover talks with Glencore, sinking a deal that would have created the biggest miner in the world.
- Nick Toscano