Rio Venture to Spend $733 Million on Australian Iron Ore Hub

Rio Tinto Group's West Angelas iron ore mine in Pilbara, Australia, in 2012. Rio Tinto Group and partners Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel Corp. will spend $733 million on developing new iron ore mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia to sustain output from the West Angelas hub. Most Read from Bloomberg The West Angelas Sustaining Project will involve mining new areas to keep production at about 35 million tons of the steelmaking ingredient each year, Rio said in a statement Tuesday. The group has ...