A team of palaeontologists found Australia’s first head and associated body of an elasmosaur, a long-necked plesiosaur that co-existed with dinosaurs in the early Cretaceous Period.

Dean Dalla Valle and Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the latest appointments, will join Rio's board on June 1.

Larger rivals BHP Group and Rio Tinto Group have already made billion-dollar moves to grow in copper in the past year.

Ghana JV will be Africa's biggest gold mine.

Miner suspended ore processing operations on Feb. 23 after a Panama government order halted its loading permissions at the port.

The company expects repair work to the ball mill motor at its Pogo operation to take up to six weeks.

Net profit declined 32% to $1.6 billion on the back of a 14% fall in revenue to $4.3 billion.

The lawsuit, one of the largest in English legal history, was thrown out in 2020 before the Court of Appeal ruled in July that it could proceed.