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Rio Tinto sells its Blair Athol coal mine for less than a bus ticket

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 04, 2016 | 3:58 am Base Metals Energy Top Companies Asia Australia Europe Coal Copper 

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is selling its interest in Blair Athol coal mine to a small Australian miner for just US$0.75 (A$1), as part of the world’s second largest miner’s strategy to offload unprofitable assets and focus mostly on copper, a...

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