(Reuters) - A routine night shift ended in tragedy for Alseny Camara. The 32-year-old was working for a Chinese subcontractor building a railway to reach Simandou - the world's largest new iron mining ...

Guinea's Simandou mega mining project, promoted by the military government as a symbol of the country's economic ...

Commissioning and testing are now underway of the integrated 600km trans-Guinean railway and port serving the Simandou iron-ore mine.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto is deeply saddened to confirm that an employee from a contracting company has died following an incident on Saturday at the SimFer port site on the Simandou project ...

CONAKRY, Guinea--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The President of the Republic of Guinea today joined project partners WCS 1, Baowu, Chinalco and Rio Tinto in a ceremony at the port in Forécariah prefecture to mark ...

Simandou’s mining concession is divided into four blocks. The project is a partnership between Rio Tinto, Chalco Iron Ore Holdings (CIOH), and a Chinalco-led consortium, Winning Consortium Simandou ...

The Simandou mountain range in southeastern Guinea, once a dense forest where exploration teams relied on GPS and helicopters to navigate, has yielded vast reserves of its sought-after high-grade iron ...

Rio Tinto‘s (OTCPK: RTNTF) board has approved Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project, marking it the world’s largest mining endeavor. CEO Jakob Stausholm confirmed the news about the $20 billion project. ...

At the foot of the Simandou mountains in southeast Guinea's lush tropical forest, thousands of workers, trucks and excavators are digging up the hills. The verdant paradise is home to a gigantic ...