An Indonesian workers union has announced it will begin a one-month strike at the Grasberg mine over safety issues that led to a string of deaths last month. Five miners died at the Papua copper and...
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Rio Tinto will reportedly face worldwide employee-led protests today over a spate of fatalities at an Indonesian worksite where the company has a major investment. According to IndustriALL Global...
Rio Tinto plans to start building a new iron ore mine next to their existing Yandicoogina mine in the Pilbara some time in 2016, should they receive the necessary government approvals. Despite...
The Pilbara Iron Company has been charged in relation to the death of a mine worker in 2011 by the Western Australian Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). Mr Brent Glew died on 16 August 2011...
Rio Tinto Alcan Weipa’s ‘Hydraulic Valve Opening Tool’ was announced as the winner of this year’s Innovation Awards at the 2014 Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference dinner held...
A new partnership between Rio Tinto and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) is seeking to better understand groundwater behaviour and how to incorporate it in...
BHP will introduce driverless trucks into Queensland and NSW coal mines in the next 12 months according to BHP Billiton coal president Dean Dalla Valle. Autonomous mining trucks are already a feature...
One of Australia’s biggest unions claims it will now mount legal challenges against mining contractors who force workers to submit to drug and alcohol urine testing, after a landmark decision handed...
A man has been treated in hospital after a gas leak at Rio Tinto’s bauxite operation at Weipa prompted an evacuation of the mine yesterday morning The man suffered freeze burn injuries to his...
Police from the small Pilbara mining town of Tom Price are continuing their investigation into the death of 54-year-old Rio Tinto mine employee, whose body was discovered four days after he died. The...
