The Latest Breaking News from Rio Tinto

An independent report commissioned by ERA suggests that the company could pay for the rehabilitation of one mine site by establishing another.

The Nationals have turned the scare rhetoric up to 11, but the energy market operator has already accounted for much of their criticisms

Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bullish stance on Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.

On the wooded hill above the Stan Terg lead and zinc mine in Kosovo, there is an old concrete diving platform looming over what was once an open-air swimming pool. Before the break-up of Yugoslavia, people who worked at the mine would bring their families here to swim, sunbathe on…

Rio Tinto has caught up with iron ore peers BHP and Fortescue Metals Group as the latest to join a global coalition of top companies looking to cut emissions.

Mining company alleges arrangement with Rusal subsidiary would have benefited Putin allies Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg

Rio Tinto can miss the clean-up deadline on the decades-old Ranger uranium mine in the heart of the Kakadu under new laws introduced to federal parliament.

The remote Australian mining town of Nhulunbuy celebrates its 50th anniversary in style, while looking towards an uncertain but optimistic future.

Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company said on Monday.

After a series of failed legal challenges and their native title being extinguished, a group of Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners are using a human rights act to occupy land at Bravus's Carmichael Coal mine in central Queensland.

A majority of Australian companies have lifted profits in the August earnings season but concerns over costs and a slowing economy weigh on the outlook.