Rio Tinto News

Australia's second biggest miner, Rio Tinto Ltd, has completed the sale of Alcan Composites to Swiss-based machinery maker Schweiter Technologies for $US349 million .

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Rio Tinto Ltd says it will need as many as 1,000 new employees when its iron ore operations in Western Australia's Pilbara region expand.

U.K. shares traded sharply lower on Thursday, as investors took some profits off the table by selling miners and banks in particular.

TWO large Australian mining companies are listed on the London Stock Exchange as well as the Australian Securities Exchange - BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto.

THE Pilbara love-in between Rio Tinto and Kerry Stokes' 52 per cent-owned iron ore junior, Iron Ore Holdings, has been expanded to include a possible deal on IOH's fast-growing Iron Valley resource.

Rio Tinto Ltd says it may buy Iron Ore Holdings Ltd's Iron Valley deposit in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG said it has sold its industrial services unit North American Safway Group to a private equity company based in New York, Odyssey Investment Partners LLC.

Global miner Rio Tinto says it will receive total proceeds of at least $US741 million in connection with the recent initial public offering of Cloud Peak Energy Inc, and related transactions.

British stocks traded lower on Friday, with commodity-sector stocks under pressure as oil and gold futures declined and as broker downgrades weighed on shares of several travel firms.

U.S. stock futures on Friday pointed to a weaker start, hurt in part by Dell's worse-than-forecast profit drop as traders moved toward safer securities like bonds.

Shares of Fortinet Inc. rose sharply in the company's first day of trading on the Nasdaq, another sign that the recently moribund IPO market is coming back to life.

OECD economies must recover for the resurgence of international trade and consumer spending needed for miner Rio Tinto and other industries to be on a sustainable footing, its chief executive said on Saturday.

European steel makers called Monday on EU antitrust regulators to block a joint venture between the world's No.

Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Plc is hoping to raise $520 million by spinning off its U.S. coal business, but analysts cautioned that demand for the offering could be tepid.

MEGA MERGER: BHP Billiton is planning to share its Pilbara operations with rival mining giant Rio Tinot.

Little more than a year ago, BHP Billiton , the world's largest mining company, was trying to coax its fellow mining giant Rio Tinto into a combination of the two companies.

THE Federal Government has called for Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu's case to be fast-tracked, after it emerged he'll remain imprisoned in China for at least another two months.

Rio Tinto Ltd and Chile's state-owned copper mining company have entered into an alliance to jointly pursue `next generation' copper mining and processing technology development.

Said he was 'straight to the point' Markets : Latest trading news and more WEST Australian Premier Colin Barnett has warned BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto he could spike their contentious plan to merge their Pilbara iron ore operations by not passing vital legislation if they do not agree to pay raised royalties.