Rio Tinto eyes EV market, commits extra $302 mln for copper project

摘要

Rio Tinto Ltd said on Monday it would invest an extra $302 million to develop its Resolution copper project in the U.S. state of Arizona, as it looks to expands output to meet the lucrative market for new energy vehicles. The funds will be used bank-roll additional drilling, ore-body studies, infrastructure improvements and permitting activities with the miner aiming to advance the project to the final stage of the permitting phase, it said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange.