Simandou fatalities prompt project suspension and company responses
In October 2025, three migrant workers died in an incident at a Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) worksite on the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea, prompting WCS to halt operations and launch a safety review. These deaths add to a series of previous fatalities linked to the project, including 13 worker deaths since November 2023 during port and railway construction and an additional death reported by Rio Tinto in August 2025. In January 2026, the Business & Human Rights Centre invited Rio Tinto to respond, and the company emphasized that it is developing a separate and independent mine from the site where the three workers died. Rio Tinto also stated that it has offered support to WCS in light of the incident.
Source: adapted from Business and Human Rights Centre, January 2026.
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