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Rio Tinto bets on future of automated mining

Reuters UK | February 20, 2012 | 9:18 am Education Europe

A train loaded with iron ore travels towards the Rio Tinto Parker Point iron ore facility in Dampier in the Pilbara region of Western Australia April 20, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Daniel Munoz MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Global miner Rio Tinto has accelerated a…