Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto to sell around $8-bn worth global aluminium assets
17 Oct 2011
Rio Tinto has put 13 aluminum businesses worth billions of dollars in six countries for sale , just four years after it made a highly-leveraged but ill-timed acquisition of Canadian aluminium group Alcan Inc for $38.1 billion in 2007
NMDC, Rio Tinto scrap joint venture
09 Sep 2011
NMDC had expected Rio to facilitate its entry into Rio's home turf in Australia and elsewhere, which never materialised
Tata Steel exits Riversdale with A$1 billion stake sale
16 Jun 2011
Tata Steel would, however, keep its 35 per cent stake in a Riversdale unit that owns coal assets in Mozambique and look to enhance participation in the Benga joint venture.
Rio Tinto plans to de-list Riversdale
30 Apr 2011
Tata Steel, Rio Tinto to develop new, clean iron smelting technology
21 Apr 2011
A 60,000-tonne pilot plant is being set up at Tata Steel's Ijmuiden steelworks in the Netherlands to test the new technology
Rio Tinto raises offer price for Riversdale
12 Mar 2011
Rio Tinto's $3.9 billion bid gets backing of full board of Riversdale
24 Jan 2011
Although Misra has backed the Rio Tinto bid as a Riversdale director and not as a Tata representative on the board, Tata's capital constraints make it an unlikely counterbidder
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