To mark the 20th Annual World AIDS day on 1 December, people across Rio Tinto’s African businesses are participating in events to raise awareness of and educate people about HIV/AIDS. |  |
The Boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited (together “Rio Tinto”) note the announcement today by BHP Billiton that it will not pursue its pre-conditional Offers for the acquisition of Rio Tinto. | |
The Rio Tinto Boards of Directors have received confirmation from Chairman Paul Skinner that he intends to serve out his current term which expires in December 2009. | |
Rio Tinto is to invest an additional US$300 million in the modernisation of the Kitimat aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada, bringing the current project funding total to over US$500 million. | |
Chief executive Tom Albanese said: "The long term outlook for Rio Tinto remains positive despite the upheavals in global markets. | |
Rio Tinto and Atlas Copco have formed an alliance to work together to develop autonomous drilling solutions for surface mining. | |
Rio Tinto and General Electric today announced that they are working together on two key strategic technology projects, Rio Tinto’s ‘Mine of the Future™’ and GE’s ‘Ecomagination’”, to develop the most energy efficient and ecologically friendly solutions to support the future of mining. | |
Rio Tinto has announced the return to service of its Car Dumper 2 at Cape Lambert and the resumption of full operations at the port. | |
Rio Tinto today welcomed the recent opportunity for its chairman, Paul Skinner, and Sam Walsh, chief executive Iron Ore, to discuss the development of the important Simandou iron ore deposit in Guinea.
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Rio Tinto continues to advance its three-phased strategy that would see the Iron Ore Company of Canada’s annual concentrate production expand by 50 per cent to 26 million tonnes by 2011. | |
Rio Tinto has signed two exploration joint venture agreements with CODELCO’s 100% owned subsidiary, CCM Los Andes, in Chile. | |
The boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Jan du Plessis as a non-executive director with effect from 1 September 2008. | |
Rio Tinto’s interim results to 30 June 2008, released this morning. They are above the top end of analyst expectations, with underlying earnings of $5.5bn, up 55% on H1 2007. Net earnings have more than doubled to $6.9bn.
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Rio Tinto has completed the sale of the Kintyre uranium project located in Western Australia to a joint venture comprising subsidiaries of Cameco Corporation and Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd for US$495 million. | |
Rio Tinto announces the filing of a registration statement by Cloud Peak Energy Inc. for a proposed initial public offering | |
Rio Tinto has announced an investment of US$652 million (Rio Tinto share US$341 million) to support continued pre-feasibility studies on a large, tier-one copper deposit at its Resolution Copper Mining LLC (RCML) operation in Superior, Arizona. | |
Rio Tinto has today received correspondence from the President of Guinea purporting to rescind the Simandou Mining Concession. | |
Rio Tinto, through its Hamersley Iron subsidiary, and Iron Ore Holdings Limited (ASX: IOH) agreed today on commercial terms for an innovative mine-gate sales arrangement. | |
Rio Tinto's 75.7 per cent owned subsidiary, Coal & Allied Industries Limited, issued the following news release in Australia. All dollars are Australian currency. | |
Commenting on the second quarter’s production results, chief executive Tom Albanese said: "These strong results show that we are continuing to expand to meet rapid demand growth in the developing world. | |