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...Rio Tinto, which still owns titanium dioxide miner Richards Bay Minerals in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal region, has also tried to reduce its exposure to risky jurisdictions such as South Africa....
...Bankers and analysts said a further drop in shares would make the company a takeover target for the likes of Glencore or Rio Tinto....
...Financial markets closed Results: Ashmore Group Q2 assets under management statement, PageGroup Q4 trading update, Rio Tinto Q4 operations review (late UK time) Tuesday Competition Appeal Tribunal hearing...
...“That gives me time to look at other stuff,” says Cutifani, though he refused to comment on whether he was approached to be the chair of Rio....
...Anglo, the owner of diamond company De Beers, was founded in South Africa more than 100 years ago by Ernest Oppenheimer on the back of the nation’s giant gold mines....
...Retirement is the ugliest word, said Ernest Hemingway, chronicler of one man’s epic battle against the elements to land the marlin that would resurrect his reputation....
...Why Ernest Hemingway stayed in the apartment when it was owned by Baron Nanyuki Franchetti, a hunting companion....
...The Rio Olympics were a lot of fun, despite alarmist press coverage about poor Brazilian preparedness in the run up to the games....
...“Ernest Oppenheimer had to reconstruct this organisation. Harry Oppenheimer had to do it,” Anglo’s 57-year-old chief executive says, referring to the company’s founder and his son....
...Ernest Oppenheimer founded Anglo American in 1917 and laid the cornerstone of 44 Main Street in 1938....
...It seems likely.Martin Wolf Will Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff be impeached before the Olympic Games begin in Rio? No. But it will be a close-run thing....
...The comments on the Pilbara plans came as Glencore Xstrata said it was suspending iron ore processing at its Ernest Henry mine in the Australian state of Queensland, blaming falling revenue and increasing...
...Last month Rio Tinto had to abandon plans to sell or float its precious gems business....
...He’s now in Rio de Janeiro researching a book on Brazilian football. … This kind of in-depth sports writing has become more necessary as daily sports journalism has got harder....
...Mr Obama also nominated Ernest Moniz, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to serve as energy secretary....
...“But buying Minas-Rio, Pebble and Michiquillay – those were just mistakes....
...The trip starts on January 3 2013 in Punta Arenas, Chile, and ends in Rio de Janeiro in late February....
...Cynthia Carroll’s decision to leave Anglo American comes as the mining group faces one of its most turbulent periods since it was founded in 1917 by Ernest Oppenheimer....
...Ernest Wilson’s A Naturalist in Western China (1914) is subtitled With Vasculum, Camera, and Gun. But the sums were bigger than that....
...The ostensible subject is near-parodic – an emaciated girl in a Rio slum tries to make like Marilyn Monroe. But Lispector was a fierce and singular talent....
...The charge that it turns Australia into the “number one sovereign risk issue”, made by Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto, is absurd . . ....
...Fortescue Metals Group, Australia’s third-biggest iron ore exporter behind Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, last month said it had put on hold two projects that were in its development pipeline....
...Xstrata, which had shelved spending on A$6.6bn of projects in Australia, is resuming work on a A$586m expansion at its Ernest Henry copper mine....
...But analysts noted that copper production had recovered well in the second half of the year, particularly at the Tintaya, Ernest Henry and Collahuasi mines....
...Among the miners, Rio Tinto eased 1.3 per cent to £51.66 on rumours that BHP Billiton, 1.5 per cent lower at £15.18, might abandon its plans to bid....
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