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- Title
Rio Tinto steps away from Pebble Project; Company gives its shares of Northern Dynasty to charity.
- Abstract
The article states that mining company Rio Tinto is divesting its 19.1 percent shareholdings in Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd., who own the proposed Pebble Project mine in Alaska. It mentions Rio Tinto will give its shares to the charitable foundations Alaska Community Foundation and the Bristol Bay Native Corporation Education Foundation. It comments that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2014 it was temporarily blocking the Pebble mine under the Clean Water Act.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RIO Tinto PLC; NORTHERN Dynasty Minerals Ltd.; CORPORATE divestiture; CHARITABLE uses, trusts, &; foundations; UNITED States. Environmental Protection Agency; MINES &; mineral resources policy; CLEAN Water Act of 1977 (U.S.)
- Publication
Mining Engineering, 2014, Vol 66, Issue 5, p10
- ISSN
0026-5187
- Publication type
Article