Rio Tinto Develops Method For Production Of Aluminium-Strengthening Scandium From Titanium Oxide Refining Waste
Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto said last week it has identified a process to extract scandium from mining waste for...
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Rio Tinto Sees Third-Party Bauxite Shipments Rise 13 Percent In Q2
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released production and financial results for the second quarter yesterday. Though bauxite ore and alumina production rose in the quarter, production cuts stunted the firm’s aluminium production in that period. In the previous quarter Rio Tinto...
Weak Sales Prices Hamper Earnings For Rio Tinto’s Aluminium Sector In Front Half Of 2019
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group released results for the first half of 2019 late last week. The firm’s aluminium...
U.S. Trade Tension With China Prompts Rio Tinto To Shift Aluminium Exports To Europe: CEO Jacques
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group says the trade troubles between the United States and the People’s Republic of China...
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Rio Tinto Collaboration With Apple On Carbon-Free Aluminium Production To Move Forward
In an effort at transitioning its aluminium business to capitalize on the coming low-carbon economy, Rio Tinto Group said last Friday that it is negotiating with Apple on a project to commercialize a process for smelting aluminium that emits only oxygen as a byproduct. Commenting at the commissioning of bauxite mining operations at Amrun, Rio […]
Rio Tinto Completes Commissioning Of Amrun Bauxite Mine
Anglo-Australian mining titan Rio Tinto Group announced on Friday the completion of commissioning of its Amrun bauxite operations at Cape York, Queensland. According to the firm, the US$1.9-billion operation will take up the slack from the mine at East Weipa as it exhausts its cache of bauxite ore. Not only will it fill the void […]
Rio Tinto Promises Carbon-Free Smelting Technology At Tiwai Point
New Zealand’s Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is in line to possibly become the world’s first carbon-free aluminium smelter after a productive discussion between the heads of Rio Tinto Group and the New Zealand government last week. A Kiwi news source says Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed the matter […]
Sources: Rio Tinto Engaged UBS for Listing Pacific Aluminium on Australian Stock Exchange
According to anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters last week, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group has engaged Swiss investment bank UBS AG to investigate the possibility of publicly listing Pacific Aluminium on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Reuters said two industry sources revealed on Friday that such a deal was currently in the works. […]
Rio Tinto Pondering Placement of Pacific Aluminium on Australia’s Stock Exchange
Rumors have surfaced in Australian media outlets that Anglo-Australian mining titan Rio Tinto Group is weighing listing Pacific Aluminium on the country’s securities exchange in the near future. According to a column published in The Australian Financial Review earlier today, Rio Tinto is exploring a full or partial listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
