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The claims were aired during Rio Tinto’s AGM in Perth on Wednesday.

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 will forgo fuel for WA to boost its stockpile.

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
Iron ore has been BHP’s biggest earner for decades, but copper is close to taking over.

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
Gina Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting, started by her father Lang Hancock (far right), will have to pay the descendants of Peter Wright (centre).

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
Gina Rinehart, Hancock Prospecting civil case decision v Wright Prospecting, DFD Rhodes, main index picture 3x2. Picture: Marija Ercegovac

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
President Donald Trump imposed tariffs illegally and Australian companies want their money back.

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
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Rio Tinto’s smelter at Boyne.

‘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
Rio has benefited from a surge in global commodity prices.

‘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
NAB shares have soared on the back of its trading update.

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
Rio Tinto’s Simon Trott is trying to bring together Glencore and Rio Tinto.

‘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