Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa’s gold mines. The 54-year-old continued working when diagnosed with early incurable lung disease...
An arbitrator has ruled that a “poison pill” rights plan erected by Ivanhoe to try and stop a Rio Tinto takeover, does not apply to the latter, leaving Ivanhoe vulnerable to a takeover next year. See...
Consolidation continues to be a key theme in the uranium sector. Shortly after Rio Tinto Ltd. took control of Hathor Exploration Ltd., Chinese nuclear giant China Guangdong Power Group has made a friendly offer for Kalahari Minerals PLC. See...
Rio Tinto’s chief executive Tom Albanese said that he would lobby Canada to ensure it was the operator of the Roughrider uranium project in Saskatchewan, despite legal hurdles, after its successful takeover of Hathor. At the start of December, Rio emerged the winner...
The assassination of environmental and human rights’ activist, Shehla Masood, brought into sharp focus plans by Rio Tinto to open India’s first new commercial diamond mine in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Recently, Australian Broadcasting Company sent a...
For decades, a quaint practice marks the secretive world of diamond trade. Every five weeks, elite diamond houses from all over the world assemble in a room in London, and behind the closed doors, each one of them is given a small box of rough stones by De Beers...
