Global gross domestic product (GDP) growth and dry bulk trade are both facing uncertainty due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), though Chinese government stimulus measures are likely lend much-needed support, iron ore miner Rio Tinto said last week.

The London Metal Exchange announced Jean-Sébastien Jacques, chief executive of Rio Tinto, as the keynote speaker for this year’s LME metals seminar in October.

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

Rio Tinto ceo Sam Walsh has reassured mining enthusiasts that there is more to the industry today than low prices and lacklustre deal activity.

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

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.

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.