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Booze ban at Rio Tinto mine means perks drying up

Jeffrey Richmond | July 08, 2014 | 7:35 pm Australia Diamond 

Mining heavyweight Rio Tinto's (NYSE:RIO) plan to ban alcohol at its Argyle Diamond Mine has some thinking that incentives to keep fly-in, fly-out workers on site are literally drying up. The company offered no details about or explanation for the...

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