(updated with section on Market View)

The Guinean government has published all of the mining agreements signed by the country since 1958 on a new website, which will be officially launched in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Friday February 15.

Rio Tinto has loaded the first shipment of iron ore from its expanded port, rail and mine operations in Pilbara, Western Australia.

Guinea and a consortium led by Anglo-Australian mining major Rio Tinto are looking to turn a multi-billion-dollar rail infrastructure project for the Simandou iron ore mine over to a third party.

The World Coal Assn (WCA) has appointed Harry Kenyon-Slaney, ceo of Rio Tinto’s energy business, as its new chairman.

Alcoa and Rio Tinto have set up a joint-venture firm with investment from the governments of Canada and the Canadian province of Quebec as well as technology firm Apple to license and sell technology creating carbon-free aluminium.

Rio Tinto has secured a $4.4 billion project financing deal for the underground development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, the miner said on Tuesday December 15.

Seaborne iron ore prices bucked the downward trend on Tuesday January 18 and tracked an upward movement on the front-month swap contracts, sources told Fastmarkets.

Swiss commodity major Glencore Xstrata is in talks with miner Rio Tinto over a coal production tie-up in Australia’s coal-rich Hunter Valley in a bid to boost profitability.

Anglo-Australian mining major Rio Tinto has completed the sale of Coal Mozambique to India’s International Coal Ventures (ICVL), it said in a filing with the Australian Securities Exchange on Wednesday October 8.