Things You Can't Live Without | Episode 4 with Ruby Wax
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Join Rio Tinto’s Chief Scientist Nigel Steward to hear why turning off notifications helps both industrial processes as well as our brains, and the importance of community in today's digital age.
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### Rio Tinto and AMG Metals & Materials to assess low-carbon aluminium project in India
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto and AMG Metals & Materials (AMG M&M), an energy transition solutions provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly assess the feasibility of developing an integrated low-carbon aluminium project powered by renewable energy in India. AMG M&M is promoted by the two founders of Greenko and AM Green. Together, the parties will
](/en/news/releases/2025/rio-tinto-and-amg-metals--materials-to-assess-low-carbon-aluminium-project-in-india "Rio Tinto and AMG Metals & Materials to assess low-carbon aluminium project in India")[
16 April 2025
### Rio Tinto releases first quarter 2025 production results
Solid performance while growth projects move ahead with pace MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said: “We continued to see strong operational improvement with the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine and our bauxite operations delivering record months for production in March. Production was affected, however, by extreme weather events that impacted our Pilbar
](/en/news/releases/2025/rio-tinto-releases-first-quarter-2025-production-results "Rio Tinto releases first quarter 2025 production results")[
08 April 2025
### Primetals Technologies with Strategic Partner Mitsubishi Corporation, voestalpine, and Rio Tinto to Implement Hydrogen-Based Ironmaking Plant
Industrial-scale prototype plant to be implemented in Linz, Austria Production of hot briquetted iron, hot metal, and pig iron via Hydrogen-based Fine-Ore Reduction (HYFOR) and Smelter solutions  First time a hydrogen-based direct reduction plant for iron ore fines is linked to a Smelter  LONDON -- On April 1, 2025, Primetals Technologies, together with its strategic partn
](/en/news/releases/2025/primetals-mitsubishi-voestalpine-rio-partner-on-hydrogen-ironmaking "Primetals Technologies with Strategic Partner Mitsubishi Corporation, voestalpine, and Rio Tinto to Implement Hydrogen-Based Ironmaking Plant ")
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### Beyond the brass
We examine how digitisation is transforming the way we provide materials — such as the metals used in world-renowned musician Jon Lampley's trumpet.
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### Life finds a way: Microbes
While dinosaurs vanished, their tiny companions—microbes—adapted and thrived, proving their resilience across time.
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