Start, Rio Tinto’s new digital sustainability label, uses blockchain technology to encrypt key information about the company’s aluminium, functioning like a “digital filing cabinet,” vice president of sales marketing at Rio Tinto Aluminium Tolga Egrilmezer told Fastmarkets.

Jakob Stausholm will become the new chief executive officer of mining major Rio Tinto at the start of next year, the company announced on Thursday December 17.

There’s widespread agreement that the London Metal Exchange nickel contract is broken, but little consensus on how to get it going again.

Brazilian alumina exports grew by 62.24% year on year in August on higher shipments, in particular from northeastern Maranhão state, where the Alumar refinery is located, according to data published by the economy ministry on Monday September 5.

Rio Tinto’s New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) in Tiwai Point will continue to operate until December 31, 2024 after reaching an electricity agreement with Meridian Energy, the producer said on Wednesday January 13.

Leading mining companies have recently expanded their exposure to copper via acquisitions rather than through greenfield investments, but new projects are needed to feed an expected rise in demand amid global energy transition trends, market experts have told Fastmarkets

Rio Tinto is considering a move into industrial-scale scandium oxide production after developing a pilot plant and seeing strong interest in the market, the company said this week.

Rio Tinto's lithium-borate Jadar project in Serbia is progressing to the feasibility study stage, the company said on Thursday July 30.

Movements in seaborne iron ore prices were largely rangebound on Wednesday July 27 amid thin buying interest and market volatility, sources told Fastmarkets