Wyloo offered to buy all the shares of nickel miner Mincor it does not already own for an implied equity value of $504 million.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission found that Kurt Schlosser purchased shares in Piedmont after being informed of details of a five-year spodumene concentrate supply agreement.

Shares surged as much as 11% on Monday as the Australian gold miner started underground production three months ahead of schedule.

Audit found nearly half of Rio's assets lacked access to appropriately qualified cultural heritage expertise within the business.

Traders will watch how the Swiss franc reacts to the flurry of weekend activity that saw rival UBS Group AG agreeing to buy Credit Suisse.

A team of palaeontologists found Australia’s first head and associated body of an elasmosaur, a long-necked plesiosaur that co-existed with dinosaurs in the early Cretaceous Period.

Dean Dalla Valle and Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, the latest appointments, will join Rio's board on June 1.