The United States Federal Court again rejected arguments from Rio Tinto in a massive human rights claim brought by South Pacific islanders claiming the world’s largest mining company conspired with the government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in crimes against...
China’s security watchdog has accused mining giant Rio Tinto of spying on Chinese steel companies for six years, extorting $122 billion from them in the process. The report, by China’s National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets,...
Jacques Nasser, the former Ford supremo, who acquired the nickname for his controversial cost-cutting efforts at the carmaker, is going to chair BHP Billiton as it completes the merger of its Australian iron-ore business with Rio Tinto and continues with its price...
A government official has confirmed that BHP Billiton is planning to sell its interest in a big Borneo coal project. See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page38?oid=87264&sn=Detail.
It has always been a match made in peril: One of the biggest copper and gold mines in the world, 50% owned by Anglo American [and with a smaller involvement by Rio Tinto], perched in the watershed above Bristol Bay, Alaska — the last, best refuge for millions of...
In reporting a fall in underlying earnings per share of US 91 cents, Anglo American has beaten analysts’ forecasts as its cost cutting programme begins to have an impact and metal prices have recovered from their bottoms. See...
