Peter Ker

Australia

Mining and Resources Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Mining and Resources Writer at The Australian Financial Review PH: +613 8667 2383 [email protected]

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Rio Tinto in $214 class action settlement over its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Rio Tinto will pay $214 million to settle a long-running class action brought by US investors who claimed losses caused by the mining group’s management of its giant Oyu Tolgoi copper project in Mongolia.
Rio Tinto to settle class action over Mongolian mine for $214m

1 week ago | futures.tradingcharts.com | Peter Ker

Jun 19, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --Rio Tinto has settled a lawsuit brought against it by Florida hedge fund Pentwater Capital Management and other investors in Canada-based Turquoise Hill Resources.
Rio Tinto to settle class action over Mongolian mine for $214m

1 week ago | futures.tradingcharts.com | Peter Ker

Jun 19, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --Rio Tinto has settled a lawsuit brought against it by Florida hedge fund Pentwater Capital Management and other investors in Canada-based Turquoise Hill Resources.
Woodside lawsuit claims US government department unfairly charged excess royalties

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Woodside Energy has accused a US government department of showing bias and hostility toward oil and gas producers, in a lawsuit that claims it and other companies were wrongly charged billions of dollars worth of excess royalties.
BHP and Rio Tinto’s hopes for carbon millions dashed by sceptical officials

1 week ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

BHP and Rio Tinto’s proposals to earn a windfall from environmental projects has been rejected by federal officials who have knocked back the commodity giants’ hopes of earning valuable credits by storing carbon in mine waste and producing carbon-neutral diesel from trees.
Billionaire bust-up spells trouble for decades old mining empire

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementAbout of geological challenges at Queensland’s Ironbark coal mine won’t help a sale process that was already struggling to find a buyer, but the majority owner of the mine, AMCI, has bigger problems right now.
Critical minerals IPO stars return with copper float

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

The last time Rhys Bradley tried to float a greenfield mineral exploration company, he had to extend the offer period and pull money from his personal offset account to get it over the line. The struggle to raise $4.5 million from the initial public offering of WA1 Resources shares in 2022 proved to be worth the effort; by last year the company had turned into a $1.3 billion market darling after it discovered a huge niobium deposit in Western Australia’s remote West Arunta region. Loading...
Mongolia strikes another blow against Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Jun 7, 2025 – 12.32pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Copper production from Rio Tinto’s most important growth project will not increase as rapidly nor efficiently as expected, after tensions with the Mongolian government forced Rio to make a major engineering change at the Oyu Tolgoi mine.
Rio Tinto CEO Stausholm plays down talk that chairman forced him out

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Jun 6, 2025 – 5.14pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Departing Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm says there is no bad blood with chairman Dominic Barton, and the company’s next boss could “very well be” an internal candidate.
Rio Tinto’s $20 billion Pilbara investment wave just getting started, as CEO Jakob Stausholm prepares to depart

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Peter Ker

Jun 6, 2025 – 9.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? There was a strong sense of yesterday’s heroes when departing Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm hosted a range of foreign and domestic dignitaries in the Pilbara iron ore district on Friday.