The Northern Miner podcast: Rio Tinto issues

$9.1B dividend on booming metal prices This week’s episode features Rio Tinto’s second-quarter conference call with chief executive officer Jakob Stausholm and chief financial […]

A conveyor belt at Rio Tinto’s Weipa operation in north Queensland, Australia. Credit: Rio Tinto.

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$9.1B dividend on booming metal prices

This week’s episode features Rio Tinto’s second-quarter conference call with chief executive officer Jakob Stausholm and chief financial officer Peter Cunningham. The executives discuss the company’s extraordinarily profitable first half of the year, which included a $9.1 billion dividend, as well as ESG, demand out of China, and the company’s Jadar lithium project in Serbia.

Listen to the podcast on www.NorthernMiner.com.