\’Powered\’ Coega smelter viable, \’all for\’ using its coal for power – Rio Tinto
The construction of an aluminium smelter at Coega in South Africa was a “viable opportunity” and the company was “all for” supporting the development of a power generation plant from its “attractive” energy coal discovery in South Africa’s Limpopo province, Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese said on Tuesday. Albanese told Mining Weekly Online – a London conference call announcing record 73%-up first-half earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) of $11,4-billion – that Rio Tinto continued to be engaged in discussions with South Africa’s Eskom and the South African government on the aluminium-smelter project.
