Rio Requests Expressions of Interest for Mozambique Mine Power Project
JOHANNESBURG--June 20, 2012--Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--As the Benga coal mine in the Tete province of Mozambique moves toward first-phase production of 5 million tons and aims optimum levels of 20 million tons of coal per year (including 6 million tons of hard coking coal and 4 million tons of export thermal coal), Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) has issued a request for expressions of interest for developers and operators of a power plant at the mine.