Rio Tinto has officially opened its Western Range operation in Western Australia, joining the major miner’s integrated network of 17 iron ore mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2000km and related infrastructure. A 54:46 joint...
There are some tentative early signs that weak thermal coal prices are starting to boost import demand among Asia’s heavyweight buyers China and India. For the first five months of the year Asia’s imports of seaborne thermal coal were 346.96 million tons,...
Rio Tinto is revising the cost of its Serbian lithium project that the European Commission identified as one of 13 strategic new critical material projects, Chad Blewitt, managing director of the Jadar lithium mine, said on Wednesday....
Canada’s largest private-sector union, Unifor, is urging the federal government to respond forcefully after US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum imports to 50%. However, Prime Minister Mark Carney has signalled a more cautious...
A crash in Chinese coal prices, and a flood of clean energy, are cutting power rates in major industrial hubs, easing pressure on some of the factories caught in the crossfire of trade hostilities with the US. n Jiangsu province, the average price for June contracts...
