Rio Tinto's chief financial officer has outlined a “plan B” strategy to raise capital in the event of Chinalco's planned $19.5bn investment in the Anglo-Australian miner having to be scrubbed.
Guy Elliott, speaking at a mining conference in Singapore yesterday, said the mining group would consider a rights issue; the sale of bonds; additional asset sales; and debt rescheduling if the deal with the Chinese aluminium group were not cleared by shareholders or regulators.
Rio must repay debts of more than $18bn by the end of 2010, including $8.9bn this October.
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