Industrial Minerals


Rio Tinto receives binding offer for alumina business

28 March 2012

by John Ollett

Diamond and minerals CEO tells IM: Rio focusing on upstream side of business

Keywords: Rio Tinto, alumina, HIG Capital, diamond

Anglo American producer Rio Tinto has received a binding offer for its speciality aluminas business from private equity firm HIG Capital.

The alumina business is fully integrated and provides non-metallurgical grades of alumina from four production sites - Gardanne, La Bâthie, and Beyrède in France, and Tuetschenthal...