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Kazakh supply shock to jolt uranium price

World's top supplier of uranium announces 20% cut in production over three years.

Frik Els | December 4, 2017 | 3:47 pm

Rio Tinto appoints one of its own as the company’s new chairman

After a nine-month search, the miner has picked the current leader of the remuneration committee, Simon Thompson, to assume the post in March 2018.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 4, 2017 | 3:18 am

Mining salaries ranked for geologists, metallurgists and the C-suite

Two-thirds of miners increase head count in '17

Michael Allan McCrae | December 1, 2017 | 8:10 am

BHP tightens belt, targets $1.6bn in cost-cutting at Australian operations

The world’s No.1 miner is targeting as much as $1.6 billion in productivity gains at its iron ore, copper and coal units in the country over the next two years.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2017 | 3:34 am

Investors force Rio Tinto to ditch plans to have Mick Davis as chairman

Decision comes in the wake of a full-scale investor revolt led by the Investor Forum, a London-based body representing some of the world’s biggest money managers.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2017 | 9:16 am

Legal kerfuffle in Spain around uranium mine environmental assessment

Spain's National Audience dismissed a series of allegations presented by Berkeley Energia against a legal action filed by a group of environmentalists who oppose the company's uranium project.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 23, 2017 | 6:08 am