Mining giant Rio Tinto has released a statement saying it intended to "postpone" its $371 million automated train project in WA in response to an economic slowdown. An automated train on its way to ...

Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) -2.5% in Tuesday's trading after reporting Q2 iron ore shipments below analyst estimates, reflecting impacts to production from a train derailment in May at its Western Australia ...

MELBOURNE, June 19 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto RIO.AX said a self-driving iron ore train derailed in Western Australia on Saturday but that no one was injured in the incident. The incident is the second ...

Look, it's just a hunch, but careering down long stretches of Australia's desert would be quite fatiguing. On the flipside, it'd make an ideal location to operate a driverless train system. It's ...

Remote controlled stackers and reclaimers moving iron ore at Rio Tinto's Port Dampier operations in western Australia's Pilbara region in March 2010. The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Construction, ...

Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has carried 28,000 tonnes of iron ore from its mining sites in Tom Price to the port of Cape Lambert in Pilbara, Western Australia, using an autonomous train, ...

MELBOURNE, June 19 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto RIO.AX said a self-driving iron ore train derailed in Western Australia on Saturday and that no one was injured in the incident. “Rio Tinto confirms a train ...

MELBOURNE, June 19 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto (RIO.AX), opens new tab was working on Monday to recover about 30 wagons of a self-driving iron ore train that derailed in Western Australia, an accident that ...