It comes a week after the mining giant told 120 employees that their roles were being outsourced to contractors.

Japanese firms have spent more than $10 billion on Australian iron ore and coal mines in the past six months as geopolitical and commercial ties converge.

Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. will buy a stake in an Australian iron ore project for $5.3 billion, in a bet that the ...

Rio Tinto reported its smallest full-year underlying earnings in five years on Wednesday that also came in below expectations ...

Unionisation of the Pilbara’s iron ore industry could curtail BHP’s plans to invest in new mines, according to the company’s ...

The miner will pay its lowest dividend in seven years and enact “strict” cost controls on its flagship iron ore division, ...

Rio Tinto will be playing catch-up with its struggling iron ore operations for the rest of this year but has come through the ...

Rio Tinto’s port, rail and mine operations have resumed after Tropical Cyclone Zelia passed over Western Australia’s Pilbara region. All our people re ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Western Australia's ports of Dampier and Varanus Island reopened, the ports' operator said, after Tropical Cyclone Zelia hit the state's Pilbara iron ore region on Friday.

Its approach prompted the closure of the world's largest iron ore hub, Port Hedland, on Wednesday. The region's Cape Lambert port also shut. Pilbara Ports said on Saturday it would issue an alert ...