Weipa

Rio Tinto Confirms Restart At Weipa After Passage Of Tropical Cyclone Trevor

Rio Tinto Confirms Restart At Weipa After Passage Of Tropical Cyclone Trevor

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said yesterday that operations at Weipa are back to normal after a brief closure as Tropical Cyclone Trevor whipped through the Queensland area over the weekend. Operations at the bauxite mine were closed last Wednesday in...

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Events

Canberra Signs Off on Metallica Minerals’ Urquhart Bauxite Project

Canberra Signs Off on Metallica Minerals’ Urquhart Bauxite Project

Brisbane’s Metallica Minerals Limited announced yesterday that it has received federal approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to develop Urquhart Bauxite Project. According to the firm, federal approval is a tremendous milestone on the road to mining bauxite ore at the project, which is located 3.1 miles southwest of Weipa on […]

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Rio Tinto Sets Bauxite Production Record in Q2

Rio Tinto Sets Bauxite Production Record in Q2

Anglo-Australian metals miner Rio Tinto Group released production totals for the second quarter of 2017 yesterday. Among the firm’s highlights in the quarter was a record bauxite ore production of 12.9 million metric tons. The firm record output was a 7 percent increase year-on-year, and a 14 percent increase quarter-on-quarter. Total production for the first […]

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Rio Tinto Sets Production Records for Bauxite, Alumina, and Aluminium in 2016

Rio Tinto Sets Production Records for Bauxite, Alumina, and Aluminium in 2016

Anglo-Australian metals and mining titan Rio Tinto released results for 2016 yesterday. The firm touted the US$8.5 billion in cash generation and US$3.6 billion in shareholder returns it generated over the course of last year. Net cash generation was down ten percent year-on-year from US$9.383 billion, but underlying earnings were up, coming in at US$5.1 […]

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Rio Tinto Begins Work on New Bauxite Mine on Cape York

Rio Tinto Begins Work on New Bauxite Mine on Cape York

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto began work on a new bauxite mine in Cape York by awarding a US$53-million contract to Queensland civil engineering firm QBrit. The new mine, dubbed the Amrun Project, is a US$2 billion operation that is expected to harvest 22.8 million metric tons per annum at the outset, with an option […]

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Rio Tinto Awards US$120 MM in Contracts for New Facilities at Amrun

Rio Tinto Awards US$120 MM in Contracts for New Facilities at Amrun

Rio Tinto is preparing to step up production at its gargantuan bauxite project in Queensland, Australia. The Australian construction firm Civmec Construction & Engineering Pty Ltd announced on Monday that it had been awarded two significant contracts at Amrun for projects involving a new processing facility at the site. Civmec’s press release indicated that it […]

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