Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earths mineral resources. The Groups worldwide operations supply essential minerals and metals that help to meet global needs and contribute to improvements in living standards. Rio Tinto encourages strong local identities and has a devolved management philosophy, entrusting responsibility with accountability to the workplace. Major products include aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy products (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc and zircon), and iron ore. The Groups activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa. Rio Tinto comprises wholly owned subsidiaries (such as Borax, Comalco, Hamersley, Rio Tinto Coal Australia, Kennecott and Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium), partly owned subsidiaries (Coal & Allied and Palabora) and non-managed, (Escondida) and joint ventures (Grasberg) in which public shareholders, other companies or governments are partners.

            Red = 25 day moving average.           Green = 200 day moving average.

SALES PER ACTIVITY (Data as of 31/12/2005)

Iron:        29%
Coal:       19%
Copper     18%
Aluminum: 14.5%
Minerals:  12.5%
:              6%
Misc:        1%

Cynic....chill, only asking the sodding question.....take another vallium. lol

so you got the f'ing answer - hoho!

come on cynic should be dancing on your dictionary.....broken through 33

i know .... almost posted here earlier to that effect, for your benefit.
very happy that i bought a few more yesterday

Better do another dictionary dance cyners, might see 34+ today if we're lucky..

it's already (been) there

bloody dance harder then!!!!

RIO goes ex-divi on 24th feb '10.

missed significantly better price yesterday, but have banked an adequate profit here this morning ..... i shall now watch again

Back in the blue now with 34+

sold out tooo early cynic...34.33 at mo.

a profit's a profit .... but bought some back at 3408

edit..34.46. what is the dealing charge for you cynic??

gold up at 1118$

think brokers have these 40

.

back again to 34.20 lol

only commission to pay - 29.82 on 350 shares, so whatever % that is
also, as i deal on L2, no enhanced spread or similar and of course no stamp duty

only commission to pay - 29.82 on 350 shares, so whatever % that is
also, as i deal on L2, no enhanced spread or similar and of course no stamp duty

i thought 3600 was going to prove a stubborn resistance, so i top-sliced just below, not least because i was a bit o'weighthere ..... as it happens, sp surged almost straight through, so it'll be interesting to see if it can be maintained