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  • Friday, 22 October, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Australia’s financial regulator closes probe into Rio Tinto payment to consultant

    ASIC cites ‘insufficient evidence’ to bring action over $10.5m fee paid for work on Guinea iron ore project in 2011

  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    Whistleblowing
    Deutsche Bank whistleblower paid $200m in record reward

    Payment made for information that led to enforcement action by US and overseas regulators

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto aims to spend $7.5bn in push to halve carbon emissions by 2030

    Shares in Anglo-Australian miner fall as chief outlines plan

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    Industrial metals
    London Metal Exchange moves to stem draining copper reserves

    Inventories of the metal have fallen this month to their lowest levels in 47 years

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Commodities
    China’s magnesium shortage threatens global car industry

    Production curbs in the country have hurt stockpiles of a key ingredient to make aluminium in vehicles

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto’s strategy chief resigns on eve of investor day

    Second senior executive to leave mining group this year since Jakob Stausholm became CEO

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Energy crisis
    Energy crunch drives up global metals prices

    Copper back above $10,000 a tonne while zinc hits near 15-year high

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio Tinto cuts iron ore output guidance after ‘difficult’ third quarter

    Anglo-Australian miner warns of further delays at $6.75bn Mongolia copper project

  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Utilities
    ITM Power launches £250m share sale to fund hydrogen gigafactory

    New Sheffield plant along with a third overseas will raise Yorkshire-based electrolyser maker’s capacity to 5GW

  • Promoted Content
  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Commodities
    BHP aims to ease tribal tensions over US copper project with Rio

    Miner seeks direct talks as partner struggles to regain indigenous landowners’ trust

  • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
    Commodities
    Gunvor cuts LNG positions amid $1bn of margin calls

    Commodity trader moves to reduce gas exposure in face of unprecedented price surge

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    South32 Ltd
    South32 is frontrunner to buy stake in Chilean copper project

    Miner could pay as much as $2bn for 45% of Sierra Gorda facility

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Mining
    Adriatic Metals launches share sale to fund Bosnia’s biggest FDI

    Group developing Vares deposit embarks on biggest such fundraising by a London-listed miner this year

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    BHP Group PLC
    BHP faces knife-edge vote on climate change plan

    Investors divided on Anglo-Australian miner’s proposal to give shareholders ‘say on climate’

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    Newmont Corp
    Newmont chief says climate change will drive gold miner consolidation

    Costs of going green tipped to fuel wave of mergers in fragmented industry

  • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
    BHP Group PLC
    BHP to look at ‘tougher jurisdictions’ in hunt for metals

    World’s biggest miner seeks big push into ‘future facing commodities’ such as copper and nickel

  • Thursday, 7 October, 2021
    Royal Dutch Shell PLC
    Shell updates earnings guidance after volatile quarter

    Hurricane Ida takes toll but energy group expects cash flow boost from gas and power trading

  • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
    Energy crisis
    Gas markets whipsaw after Russia offers to stabilise energy prices

    UK gas contracts for November delivery soar almost 40% before falling back after Putin’s comments

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
    Fortescue pledges zero emissions by 2040

    Australian miner announces ambitious targets to curb environmental footprint

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    Chinese economy
    China unloads Australian coal despite import ban amid power shortage

    Factories face energy rationing, threatening economic growth and global supply chain

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    FT CollectionsGreensill Capital
    Sanjeev Gupta fights for control of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter

    US private equity firm AIP claims to have acquired French asset, thwarting Glencore-led bailout

  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    Coal
    China’s coal miners vow to ‘go all out’ to beat power crisis

    Country’s big producers pledge to increase output as supply issues threaten economic growth

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    Oil & Gas industry
    Chinese energy order points to harsher gas crunch for Europe

    Beijing reportedly demands energy supplies to keep factories working at all costs

  • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
    Rio Tinto PLC
    Rio challenges findings of independent report into Oyu Tolgoi cost blowout

    Group insists geology, not mismanagement, was main factor behind delays at Mongolia mine

  • Wednesday, 29 September, 2021
    Gunvor Group Ltd
    Gunvor reveals record trading volumes in rare public release

    Revenues at commodity trader almost double to $47bn in first half of 2021

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