Rio Tinto’s chief financial officer Chris Lynch to retire in 2018

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The company revealed it will take four years to trial a processing method it hopes will help make the expansion profitable.

The industry’s aggregate market capitalization improved for the sixth month in a row in June, reaching $1.75 trillion, the highest level since January 2013.

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Western Australia's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommended state approval for the project, under certain conditions.

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The company also said that ore from its Cigar Lake mine, in Canada's Saskatchewan, would not be milled until early 2015, instead by the end of the year.

"I see bullish factors entering the market."