Alcoa and Chinese Rival Buy 12% Stake in Rio Tinto
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The move underscored the strategic significance of mining in a resource-stretched age as well as Chinaâs formidable and still largely untapped economic might.
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Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto   said on Thursday it received all regulatory approvals required to close the $38.1 billion acquisition of Canada's Alcan .
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Alcoa Inc., the world&#39;s top aluminum  maker, is selling its entire stake in Aluminum Corp of China  Ltd (2600.HK) (Chalco) for up to US$2 billion, reaping a  potential profit on its investment of as much as US$1.9  billion.
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Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto offered 38.1 billion dollars for Canada&#39;s Alcan Thursday, trumping US rival Alcoa with a proposed merger that would create the world largest aluminium company.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Alcoa Inc. and Australia&#39;s BHP Billiton have agreed to sell Integris Metals to Ryerson Tull for $410 million in cash, plus assumption of $250 million in debt, the companies said late Tuesday.
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Metal processor Ryerson Tull Inc. on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire Integris Metals Inc., a joint venture of aluminum producer Alcoa Inc.
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Alcoa Inc. is being targeted by two foreign mining giants who are each preparing $40 billion takeover bids for the aluminum producer, a British newspaper reported. Alcoa shares rose $2.10, or 6.4 percent, to $35, yesterday although some analysts questioned whether such a deal was likely.
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Anglo-Australian mining company Rio  Tinto   said on Thursday it received all  regulatory approvals required to close the $38.1 billion  acquisition of Canada's Alcan .
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Rio Tintoâs $38.1 billion bid exceeds a $28 billion offer from Alcoa Inc. that Alcanâs board roundly rejected.
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Alcoa Inc.  said on Thursday it has withdrawn its $29 billion offer for Alcan Inc.   in light of Rio Tinto's   agreement to purchase the Canadian aluminum company for $38 billion.
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MONTREAL/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  has agreed to buy Canada's Alcan Inc.  for $38.1 billion to create the world's largest aluminum producer, trumping a hostile bid by Alcoa Inc.
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Alcoa said it had sold its stake in the Aluminum Corporation of China for about $2 billion, a $1.8 billion gain on an investment that had yielded no real cooperation on the ground.
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Shares of Alcan Inc. rose after reports of possible takeover offers from Norsk Hydro ASA and Rio Tinto Group raised expectations of a bidding war with Alcoa Inc. for the Canadian aluminum producer.
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Alcoa's offer for Canadian rival Alcan is trumped by white knight Rio Tinto.
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SYDNEY/LONDON  - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc has agreed to buy Canadian aluminum company Alcan Inc. for $38.1 billion, in a bid to create the world's biggest aluminum company.
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Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc  said it would spend US$793 million as its share of the cost to extend the Kestrel coal mine in Australia, as it looks to internal growth to fight off an unwanted approach from rival BHP Billiton.
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Rio Tinto Ltd.'s $38.1 billion takeover of Alcan Inc. is set to reap benefits from not just China's appetite for aluminum, but also the bauxite and alumina needed to make it, analysts said on Friday.