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Rio in new look for talc buyer

03 September 2010

by Mark Watts

Rio Tinto re-launches search for potential suitors; says “under no pressure to divest”

Keywords: Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Minerals, talc, fillers, polymers

Rio Tinto Plc has re-launched the process of divesting its global talc business amid an improved economic environment, the group’s subsidiary Rio Tinto Minerals said.

In August 2009 the group delayed the proposed sale of its talc...