Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
RSL is scheduled to open its new stadium Thursday against New York at 8 p.m. * MONDAY: RSL moves from the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium to its new digs in Sandy on Thursday.
The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | yesterday
With less than 4 days to go until another MLS side gets it's sweet little ass out of a faux-grassed enormodrome and into it's own appropriately sized, revenue-generating home. So it's Rio Tinto Stadium week with Real Salt Lake being the lucky ladies this time; they'll be walked down the isle by RBNY on MLS Primetime Thursday and it's going be wild times. Well, it'll be what passes for wild in Utah....
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
*CEO Albanese says Rio does better than peers in tough times
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The impact of water on business is steadily increasing - and is becoming a growing concern for many different companies in many different industries. As Andrew
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Defender Nat Borchers has a pretty good idea what it will be like to take the field for Real Salt Lake when it opens its new Rio Tinto Stadium in front of an exhilarated sellout crowd and a national television audience on Thursday night.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
SYDNEY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - World No. 2 iron ore miner Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc will face the first of a series of rolling strikes by unionised train drivers starting on Saturday, threatening to disrupt up to half the company's daily haulage into its main export terminal, a union leader said on Tuesday. The industrial action will be the first faced at Rio Tinto's Australian iron ore mines since 1992.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
STRIKE action is set to interrupt Rio Tinto's Pilbara operations this week for the first time in 16 years, as Australian Workplace Agreements expire.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Defender Nat Borchers has a pretty good idea what it will be like to take the field for Real Salt Lake when it opens its new Rio Tinto Stadium in front of an exhilarated sellout crowd and a national television audience on Thursday night.
EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday
PARIS, October 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging - a division of Alcan Packaging, a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan - has acquired the Chakan flexible packaging plant from.. - Read more
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A senior Chinese government official urged European regulators to reject BHP Billiton's $89 billion (50.4 billion pound) bid for Rio Tinto , saying it would be harmful to the global economy, the Sydney Morning Herald paper reported.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The proposed $170bn merger between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto would be "terrible" for global competition and should be rejected by anti-trust regulators, says China's most powerful steel industry executive
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
BHP Billiton's may have to pay more for a $55-billion loan, but this is unlikely to force it to abandon its $95-billion bid for rival Rio Tinto.
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
BHP appears to be slowly approaching its courtship with Rio Tinto.
The Offside Rules (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
A bit of Friday stadium porn to get you through the afternoon. Real Salt Lake President Bill Manning took KSL TV's Sports Director Tom Kirkland on a walking tour of Rio Tinto Stadium the other day which resulted in the clip above. I'm going to start lobbying NOW to get an invite into team owner Dave Checketts' baller-ass suite; that would be one hell of a porch to sip a whiskey & lemonade on.
The Australian (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
RIO Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese has sent a strong message to the Rudd Government on foreign investment policy, saying the nation risks serious long-term damage if it blocks Chinese investment in the resources sector and does not develop a clear and open framework.
