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BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - China's top state-owned nonferrous metals company Chinalco has confirmed that it is in talks with Rio Tinto about potential joint ventures in Mongolia and Guinea, a Chinese newspaper reported on Wednesday.

HONG KONG, March 16 (Reuters) - China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd, the world's most valuable coal producer, said the company is still bidding for Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi project.

Ling Wen, Shenhua's president, was speaking at a media briefing in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

The Bloomberg reporter Angus Whitley referred to the Australian Financial Review while reporting on March 11 that Rio Tinto Group is in talks with Aluminum Corp. of China about potential joint ventures. Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese is expected to visit Chinalco during a trip to Beijing later this month as the miner explores options for renewed collaboration with its largest single sh

HONG KONG, March 10 - Mongolia Energy Corp, a former technology company that remade itself into a natural resources developer in 2007, will deliver its first coking coal cargo this August and is also looking at projects beyond Mongolia, a senior executive said.

Mineral rich Mongolia is attracting more attention from global investors after a deal in October with Ivanhoe Mine

(Reuters) - More miners from the land of Genghis Khan may soon be listing abroad.
Mongolian owned and operated resources firms -- from coal to copper to iron ore companies -- are actively searching for foreign investors and hope to list in markets such as Hong Kong this year, the top executive of an Ulan Bator-based financial services firm told the Reuters Global Mining a

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 01, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Khan Resources Inc. ("Khan") announced today that it acknowledges that Atomredmetzoloto JSC ("ARMZ"), a Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation, intends to allow its unsolicited offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of Khan (the "Shares") for $0.65 per Share to expire. The decision by ARMZ to aba

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto (RIO.L) will increase its stake in Canada's Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO) by 2.7 percent to 22.4 percent for $233 million, in a move tied to plans to jointly develop the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia.

March 1 (Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Group, the world’s third- largest mining company, will spend C$245 million ($233 million) to increase its holding in Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., its partner in the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia.

Rio will buy 15 million shares at C$16.31 each, the London- based company said today in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange. That will lift its holding