力拓矿业集团拟暂时搁置几内亚西芒杜铁矿项目

来源:中国日报网
2016-07-23 20:53:00

中国日报网7月24日电 据英国路透社7月4日报道, 7月4日,英国-澳大利亚矿业巨头力拓集团(Rio Tinto)新任首席执行官雅克先生(Mr. Jean-Sebastien Jacques)在接受英国《泰晤士报》采访时表示,鉴于铁矿石国际市场供大于求,且几内亚西芒杜铁矿石项目投资巨大,力拓集团没有足够理由继续推进该项目。

力拓矿业集团拟暂时搁置几内亚西芒杜铁矿项目

7月4日,英国-澳大利亚矿业巨头力拓集团新任首席执行官雅克(Mr. Jean-Sébastien Jacques)在接受英国《泰晤士报》(The Times)采访时表态原文如下:

Mr.Jean-Sebastien Jacques, who starts work today as chief executive of Rio Tinto, has told The Times that the enormous cost of developing the mine could not be justified in an iron ore market that is suffering from huge overcapacity。

雅克首席执行官的上述表态被几内亚各界解读为力拓公司打算暂时搁置西芒杜铁矿石项目的开发。

另据几内亚媒体报道,多家几内亚媒体联系力拓集团总部,希望证实此事,但力拓集团总部一律拒绝就雅克首席执行官的上述表态发表任何评论。

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2016年7月22日

Rio Tinto chief shelves giant Guinea iron ore project: newspaper

Mon Jul 4, 2016

REUTERS

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Rio Tinto has shelved its $20 billion Simandou iron ore project in Guinea because of a sustained slump in prices, the company's new Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques said in an interview with The Times newspaper.

Rio Tinto declined to comment on the article.

The world's second biggest miner by market capitalization had been seeking financing for Simandou, even after a $1.1 billion writedown on the project in February. Last month the Anglo-Australian company submitted a feasibility study to the Guinean government.

But global oversupply of iron ore made the project inviable at this time, Jacques told The Times.

Simandou would have comprised an iron ore mine in central Guinea, a 650-kilometer (404-mile) railway and a deepwater port on the West African country's Atlantic Coast.

At full production, Rio said the project would generate about $7.5 billion in revenues, according to a 2014 report, and add $5.6 billion to Guinea's GDP, making Guinea the fastest growing economy in the world.

The country's ministry of mines said in a statement on Monday that it plans to pursue the project despite Rio Tinto's decision.

"Despite the challenge of financing the project, we believe that a financing solution will be found with partners who share our long-term perspective," it said.

(Reporting by Saliou Samb, writing by Edward McAllister; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg, David Goodman and Marguerita Choy)