Rio studying ways to mine more iron ore
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Rio Tinto , which is fighting  off a takeover approach from rival BHP Billiton , said  on Monday it would spend $71 million on a study to expand its  Hope Downs iron ore mine in Australia.
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By David Singleton  Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest mining group, has recruited Christina Mills to oversee global media relations.   Mills joins the Anglo-Australian mining firm after ten years heading media relations at various major UK banks.
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The world's third biggest miner Rio Tinto Monday said it would invest 991 million US dollars to boost production at a coal mine in northeastern Australia to meet growing demand from Asia.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc.'s   second-half net profit rose 25 percent, driven by higher prices for commodities such as iron ore, aluminum and copper, and said capacity was fully stretched as it tries to meet demand.
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LONDON (Dow Jones)--Mining group Rio Tinto Ltd. (RTP) is considering trumping a GBP2.9 billion bid by rival Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN) for Australian nickel miner WMC Resources Ltd.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc.'s   second-half net profit rose 25 percent, driven by higher volumes in key commodities such as iron ore and aluminum, but the mining giant painted a mixed outlook for 2007.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Continued strong steelmaking demand from China is expected to drive an 18.6% lift in iron ore prices for Australian producers into 2005, the government&#39;s Australian Bureau of Agricultural &amp; Resource Economics said Monday.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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AREQUIPA, Peru  - Giant video games with throaty  diesel engines powering monster-sized earth movers, excavators  and dump trucks have hardened miners at a metals conference  this week in Peru giggling like children.
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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China has muscled in on miner  BHP Billiton's  attempts to buy rival Rio Tinto ,  with its biggest aluminum producer teaming up with U.S. group  Alcoa  to buy a 12 percent stake in Rio.
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Alcoa and China's Chinalco are "monitoring developments" after mining giant BHP Billiton's bid for Rio Tinto.
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Our South American neighbor expands its production of ethanol and biodiesel. Partnering with Brazil would benefit the economy of a democracy and clean our skies. In Autopia.
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Brazil's CVRD, the world's biggest iron ore miner, will invest $3.3 billion this year to boost output and move its products faster to port, the company said Wednesday.
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BEIJING - A group of state-owned Chinese companies has agreed to help finance and build an iron ore and infrastructure project worth nearly $2 billion (Australian) in the Pilbara region of western Australia.
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Leading world steel group Areclor Mittal has said it had agreed to a revision of an agreement giving it access to big resourcse of iron ore in Liberia, notably by increasing its investment.
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Melbourne - WMC Resources, the world&#39;s fifth-biggest nickel producer, has invited potential partners to study its Olympic Dam copper, gold and uranium mine as it tries to fend off aA$7.4 billion (R33.37 billion) hostile bid from Xstrata.