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.

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.

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.

Rio Tinto is cutting jobs at its Hail Creek metallurgical coal mine in Australia’s Queensland as it looks to “improve productivity and reduce costs”.

Hard coking coal output from Rio Tinto’s Australian operations fell 28% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2014 as the company upped production of thermal coal and ramped up its new Kestrel South mine.

Australia-listed Latin Resources Limited has acquired the Borborema iron ore project in Brazil from Rio Tinto Exploration.

The news that Rio Tinto Alcan is closing the Lynemouth aluminium smelter in north-east England marks the end of a chapter that began more than 40 years ago.

Rio Tinto’s hard coking coal production from its global operations rose 2% in 2013, with Australian output making up a marginally lower proportion due to disruptions.