Rio Tinto and Alcoa have together secured $650-million in funding for Elysis, about a third of that from the Canadian and Quebec governments. Apple Inc., which uses aluminum in its phones and laptops, ...

The singular new slogan for the municipality on B.C.’s north coast, long home to the Rio Tinto aluminum smelting operation ...

Some 900 union workers at Rio Tinto’s Kitimat aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada have gone on strike for a string of grievances including a proposal to change worker pensions. The strike ...

Local business owners, community members, and chamber supporters gathered Oct. 30 at the Royal Canadian Legion to honour the ...

Agreement covers smelter, powerhouse workers Company says pact will help move to new, expanded smelter Kitimat smelter produced 168,000 T of aluminum in 2011 July 24 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Alcan and ...

TORONTO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has all but halted its $2.5 billion expansion of the Kitimat aluminum smelter in British Columbia, the union which represents workers at the facility said on ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: “We delivered another quarter of progress and maintained momentum at our Pilbara iron ore operations. We ...

(RTTNews) - Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Plc (RTNTF, RIO, RIO.L, RTPPF) reported that its third quarter Pilbara iron ore shipments were 83.9 million tonnes (100% basis), 1% higher than the ...

The strike follows seven weeks of negotiations and is due to what Unifor president Jerry Dias, called "Rio Tinto's greed and lack of respect'" for the union members. Unifor said it had proposed making ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: “We were fatality free for the fifth consecutive year at our managed operations but we remain vigilant and ...