Rio Tinto Limited

55.42

CHANGE

+0.13 (0.24%)

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VOLUME

2.6M

DAY'S HIGH

56.04

DAY'S LOW

55.15

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Rio Tinto Limited

Rio Tinto Limited (Rio Tinto) is engaged in finding, mining and processing mineral resources. The Company’s product group includes aluminium product group, copper product group, diamonds and minerals group, energy product group and iron ore products group. Its products are iron ore, aluminium, copper, diamonds, coal, uranium, gold and industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide and salt). Its iron ore businesses delivered record production and shipments, and its copper business showed a second half recovery in copper volumes. In January 2012, it acquired 2% of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. In August 2012, Orocobre Ltd acquired Borax Argentina S.A. from Rio Tinto Ltd entities, Rio Tinto Minerals Development Limited and Borax Europe Limited. In September 2012, it sold the North American portion of its Alcan Cable business to General Cable Corporation. As of December 31, 2012, the Company had 51% interest in Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd.,formerly known as Ivanhoe Mines.

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Aust stocks higher after Wall St record

MAY 20, 2013

"On a positive day when the world's feeling good about themselves, you generally see BHP and Rio, and certainly Fortescue, outperforming the banking stocks which are a little bit more defensive in their earnings quality."

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Australian market set to open higher

MAY 20, 2013

John McGagh, Head of Innovation for Rio Tinto and Gavin Yeates, Vice President Mine Optimisation at BHP Billitonare both slated to address the Austmine 2013 conference.

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Aust stocks close higher

MAY 20, 2013

Resources stocks were mixed as the gold price continued to wane, with BHP Billion 38 cents higher at $34.79 and Rio Tinto climbed 13 cents to $55.42.

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