Australian iron ore major Rio Tinto and China’s steel giant Baoshan Iron & Steel (Baosteel) have completed their first paperless, yuan-denominated iron ore deal, underlying both the increasing digitization of iron ore trades and importance of the Chinese currency, DBS Bank, which was one of the enablers of the deal, said on Tuesday May 12.

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

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.

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

History tells us that aluminium smelters close or curtail capacity when energy prices peak – is 2022 any different or will the same old patterns play out? Andrea Hotter looks to the past to help us think about the future

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

Multiple drivers are pushing and pulling copper supply and demand. Myra Pinkham reviews their impact and gathers expert opinion on what may happen next in the markets for the red metal

Auto manufacturer's first supply deal in the US for this key metal used in the making of batteries for electric vehicles

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