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Rio Tinto has been recognised at the 2018 Women in Resources National Awards (WIRNA) for its commitment to gender diversity and breaking the cycle of violence against women. At an awards breakfast at Parliament House in Canberra this morning,...

ArcelorMittal has begun construction of new premises at its site in Ghent, Belgium, to house a pioneering new installation which will convert carbon-containing gas from its blast furnaces into bioethanol. If proved successful, the new concept has the potential...

Fortescue Metals Group (Fortescue) continues to successfully implement its innovation projects with the relocatable conveyor at Cloudbreak coming online. A key productivity initiative, the five kilometre conveyor includes a semi-mobile primary crushing station and feeds directly into the Cloudbreak...

Nornickel is the only Russian company on the annual Forbes’ Top-100 Most Innovative list.The list is a ranking of companies investors think will create profitable new ideas. The assessment is based on innovation premium the difference between capitalisation and...

The BHP Board has approved US$2.9 billion (BHP share; US$3.4 billion 100 per cent)1 in capital expenditure for the South Flank project in the central Pilbara, Western Australia. BHP President Operations, Minerals Australia, Mike Henry, said the South Flank...

Russia's Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading palladium producer, said in a statement on Wednesday it is planning a joint venture with Russian Platinum, to expand mining of metals belonging to the platinum group.Nornickel's co-owner, billionaire Vladimir Potanin, was cited...

Barrick Gold Corporation provided an update on the status of its Pascua-Lama project, located on the border between Argentina and Chile. As previously reported, on January 17, Chile’s Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente (SMA) ordered the closure of existing infrastructure...