Rio Tinto Alcan has appointed Alfredo Barrios as its new ceo, it announced on Tuesday May 27.

China, the world’s largest carbon producer, has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060

Rio Tinto’s iron ore chief Andrew Harding says a $50-per-tonne-cfr-China price for the steelmaking raw material is no surprise.

Rio Tinto will suspend operations at its Gove alumina refinery in Australia as it was no longer a viable business in the current market environment, the miner said on Friday November 29.

Norsk Hydro has made a binding offer to acquire Rio Tinto’s wholly owned Icelandic aluminium plant Rio Tinto Iceland (Isal), both companies announced on Monday February 26.

Rio Tinto and China’s Sinosteel have agreed to extend their Channar iron ore mining joint venture in Australia.

If Rio Tinto manages to sell all of the 13 assets it put up for sale on October 17, it will have divested itself of around 2 million tpy of primary aluminium production capacity, and given itself a substantially longer position in alumina than in aluminium.

Rio Tinto expects to see a further drop in its Canadian iron ore pellet and concentrate output this year, but is maintaining the guidance for its Australian iron ore and coking coal operations.

Rio Tinto is planning to develop a new mine in Australia’s central Pilbara region which could produce up to 70 million tpy of iron ore.

The Chinese economy has been slowing gradually for some time but efforts to stimulate it will eventually take hold and will probably succeed, the head of copper and diamonds at Rio Tinto has said.