The Chinese economy has been slowing gradually for some time but efforts to stimulate it will eventually take hold and will probably succeed, the head of copper and diamonds at Rio Tinto has said.

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.

Indian state-owned consortium International Coal Ventures (ICVL) will buy Rio Tinto’s Mozambique coking coal operations, according to reports.

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 has reached a run rate of 290 million tpy at its Pilbara iron ore system of mines, rail and ports in Western Australia, two months ahead of schedule.

Rio Tinto is in preliminary talks to sell its stake in the Grasberg mine to the Indonesian government, according to the chief executive officer of Freeport-McMoRan.

Consumer demand and regulatory requirements are increasingly driving the responsible production and sustainability of aluminium, a senior executive at Rio Tinto Aluminium said.

Rio Tinto has signed a 20-year freight service agreement with Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) to transport iron ore from Australia to China.

Key talking points at Fastmarkets’ bauxite and alumina conference, held in Miami, United States, April 26-28.

A bullish long-term outlook for lithium has resource-rich Argentina looking to incentivize bringing more projects into the country over the next three years to meet soaring global demand for the battery raw material