Column: Rio Tinto counts the cost of producing green aluminum
The company booked a $1.175 billion impairment charge against its two Australian alumina refineries in its second-quarter results.
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Capstone building copper-cobalt district in Chile
By integrating the Mantoverde and Santo Domingo mines it expects to churn out 200,000t of copper and 6,000t of battery-grade cobalt a year.
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