Agreement covers smelter, powerhouse workers Company says pact will help move to new, expanded smelter Kitimat smelter produced 168,000 T of aluminum in 2011 July 24 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Alcan and ...

Some 900 union workers at Rio Tinto’s Kitimat aluminium smelter in British Columbia, Canada have gone on strike for a string of grievances including a proposal to change worker pensions. The strike ...

In the wilds of northern British Colum bia last week, the touring Duke of Edinburgh was taken inside a 7,000-ft. mountain where a powerhouse bigger than a cathedral had been blasted out of the solid ...

TORONTO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has all but halted its $2.5 billion expansion of the Kitimat aluminum smelter in British Columbia, the union which represents workers at the facility said on ...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Alcan Inc. on Monday said it plans to invest roughly $1.8 billion to modernize an aluminum smelter in British Columbia. The Montreal-based aluminum producer said the ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: “We were fatality free for the fifth consecutive year at our managed operations but we remain vigilant and ...

Alcan Inc. announced that it has concluded the previously announced sales transaction of its dross processing facility in Quebec to Scepter Aluminum Company, a privately held recycling company based ...

The strike follows seven weeks of negotiations and is due to what Unifor president Jerry Dias, called "Rio Tinto's greed and lack of respect'" for the union members. Unifor said it had proposed making ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: “We delivered another quarter of progress and maintained momentum at our Pilbara iron ore operations. We ...