Andrea Hotter speaks with the US Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, about the protracted metals and mining permitting process and its impact on the supply of critical minerals for the energy transition

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 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.

With soaring European energy prices squeezing margins and curtailing production of various commodities, Fastmarkets explores whether the crisis risks the postponement of investment in renewable power and in the transition to green metals.

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 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’s major setback at its lithium development project in Serbia exposes the overall fragility of Europe’s outlook for bringing battery raw material sourcing closer to home

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.

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.