The group includes the former chief executive officer of state-controlled oil company Petrobras, Roberto Castello Branco.

The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative granted Rio Tinto a provisional responsible aluminium production certification for ISAL.

There remains a gulf between the public perception of mining and the reality of mining.

Overall construction of the Kamoa-Kakula project's first phase 3.8-Mtpa concentrator plant is 98% complete.

MSC accounts for about 7% of global supplies estimated at around 330,000 tonnes last year.

Beijing and Canberra have been at loggerheads for more than a year over a variety of political issues, but the fallout has been concentrated in trade.

The mining windfall is the latest sign of a boom in iron ore, copper and other metals that’s sending an inflationary wave through the global economy.

His son Alejandro Bailleres was named president of the five main firms comprising the business conglomerate Grupo Bal.