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Notification regarding unquoted securities - RIO
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Dec 6, 2024
- 6 pages
Yesterday
Inside Rio Tinto’s all out war to unlock Serbia’s lithium riches
The mining giant has been trying to develop the resource rich Jadar Valley for two decades. So why is it persisting in the face of intense opposition?
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Iron ore faces ‘riot point’; Airliner crashes; Bushfire threat rises
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
This Month
IMF warns Australia; Rich Lister charged; Families sell $180m hotel
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Rio Tinto’s $10.7b lithium takeover wins shareholder approval
Chief executive Jakob Stausholm got an early Christmas present when Arcadium Lithium investors voted to accept his acquisition offer.
- Peter Ker
Mining rivals join forces on green iron project
BHP, Rio Tinto and BlueScope have all agreed to develop Australia’s largest iron-making electric smelting furnace, the NeoSmelt pilot facility, in Western Australia.
- Tom Rabe and Peter Ker
Investors sue US lithium miner over Rio Tinto’s $6.7b takeover
Three shareholders in Rio Tinto’s $6.7 billion takeover target Arcadium Lithium are suing the US company ahead of the transaction meeting next week.
- Elouise Fowler
- Exclusive
- Mining
Humble rock eclipses iron ore price as aluminium smelters shop around
Bauxite, which is essential to aluminium production, has hit a record price and surpassed the value of Australia’s number-one export for the first time.
- Elouise Fowler
London Stock Exchange suffers biggest exodus since financial crisis
The main market is set for the fewest listings in 15 years, as the allure of New York grows despite planned UK reforms.
- Rafe Uddin, Marianna Giusti and Ian Smith
Rio Tinto sinks $3.9b into Argentina lithium project
Rio Tinto has doubled down on its lithium bet with a big investment in its Rincon lithium brine project, months after agreeing to buy Arcadium Lithium.
- Elouise Fowler and Mark Wembridge
Exploration drillers tighten belts as boom fades
Spending on mineral exploration is sliding and inflationary pressures mean each dollar delivers fewer metres drilled. But AI and data analysis might save the day.
- Peter Ker
Sexual harassment class action to target BHP, Rio
The big miners’ efforts to attract more female employees have suffered a setback with the launch of sexual harassment class actions.
- Peter Ker
China’s surprise pledge sends commodities soaring
BHP and Rio Tinto rallied with commodity prices after Beijing signalled bolder support for the world’s second-largest economy next year.
- Updated
- Joanne Tran
Rio Tinto says carbon price pain justifies action on emissions
Carbon pricing schemes in Australia and Quebec mean almost half of Rio’s emissions are subject to penalty and would soon cost $940 million per year if not tackled.
- Peter Ker
Rio’s abandoned copper mine ‘life-threatening’ to Bougainville locals
The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville continues to generate toxic waste and may spark landslides that could kill people and cause lasting ecological damage.
- Elouise Fowler
November
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How Rio and BHP got caught in a three-way Trump squeeze
Rio Tinto and BHP maintain their relations in Beijing, buddy up to the new team in Washington and try to protect their interests in Canada. But it could just work out for the pair.
- James Thomson
Labor pushes 36 bills; RBA reforms loom; Don’t be a Black Friday fool
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Why the backlash from men is threatening gender targets
Mining behemoth Rio Tinto is not the only company to discover pockets of male employees who resent the push for greater diversity.
- Sally Patten
Future Fund fracas | Rio Tinto’s battle of the sexes | Market hype
This week the furore over the Future Fund, the backlash over Rio Tinto’s attempt to enshrine workplace equality, and are sharemarkets dangerously bullish.
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- Workplace culture
Rio Tinto workers push back against its diversity efforts
Two years after a major review found the company had systemic bullying issues, employees of both sexes say they are uncomfortable about some changes.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
The country’s biggest aluminium smelter says green target unreachable
Rio Tinto-backed Tomago, which uses more power than any other industrial operation in Australia, says renewable energy is too expensive and in short supply.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith