Industrial Minerals


Rio Tinto buys into Argentina potash


17  August  2005
Global metals and minerals giant Rio Tinto has made a major step towards expanding its industrial minerals portfolio with the exercise of a 2003 option to acquire Potasio Rio Colorado SA, an Argentinian company evaluating the Rio Colorado potash project in southern Mendoza province in the west of the country.

Potasio Rio Colorado was a subsidiary of Buenos Aries-based Minera Tea SA. While a world leader in the production of talc, solar salt, mineral...