Mining giant Rio Tinto announced the investment as part of its Centre for Future Materials on Thursday, with Australian National University tapped to provide expertise. The 10-year project ...

As a major steelmaker, Fangda is also a major consumer of niobium, which is used in high-strength steel products used in construction, bridges, ships, automobiles and heavy mining equipment.

The underground workings of Giant Mine, blasted out of the rock during more than half a century of gold mining ... along with all of the equipment used there. All power and heat has been shut ...

The mothballing of large West Australian critical minerals projects has come at the same time as a surge in demand for production of the precious metal. The mining giant’s Simandou project will ...

The mining giant cast a wide net in backing projects mainly in copper, gold and critical minerals after a year when chief executive Mike Henry questioned Australia’s ability to remain globally ...