BHP targets 30% reduction in emissions by 2030
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) has unveiled a revamped strategy to cut operational emissions by 30% by 2030 from this year’s levels, but it stopped…
Rio Tinto
Miners use on-site testing to keep operations coronavirus-free
Timothy Ray Sewell is no stranger to pandemics. In the early 2000s, he developed emergency management plans in Indonesia and Borneo for BHP Billiton during…
Editorial: Global Mining Symposium underscores importance of ESG
More than 1,800 people from over 80 countries tuned in to The Northern Miner’s first Global Mining Symposium last week. The three-day virtual event built…
Rio Tinto executives lose millions over Aboriginal site blast in Australia
Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) top bosses will pay millions of dollars for the destruction of two ancient caves in Australia as the group…
Rio Tinto cuts 2020 copper targets on Kennecott delay
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) has cut its refined copper production target for fiscal 2020 due to delays in restarting a smelter at its…
Fortescue backtracks on plan that endangers Australian heritage site
Australian iron ore major Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) said today it would reevaluate an expansion plan at one of its iron ore mines in…
Star Diamond reports sample results as Rio Tinto legal battle looms
Star Diamond (TSX: DIAM) has begun to receive results from Rio Tinto‘s bulk-sampling program at the Star-Orion South project in central Saskatchewan. Rio so far…
Chinese funding may resurrect Rio Tinto’s troubled Simandou project in Guinea
Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) is once again discussing the development of the controversial large-scale Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, as half-year earnings…
Rio Tinto sees promise at Winu copper-gold project in Australia
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) says it has made a “promising” discovery in Western Australia, 2 km east of its Winu copper-gold project, which…
Rio Tinto shifts responsibility for coal power plant at Oyu Tolgoi
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) has reached an agreement with Mongolia regarding the construction of a power plant to supply the giant Oyu Tolgoi…
US markets fall, June 22-26
A surge in coronavirus cases in parts of the United States undermined market sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3.31% to 25,015.55 and the…
Rio Tinto to drill Janice Lake copper-silver project in Saskatchewan
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) has started exploration at Forum Energy Metals’ (TSXV: FMC) Janice Lake sedimentary copper-silver project in northern Saskatchewan. The major…