(Reuters) – Rio Tinto is betting that U.S. President Donald Trump will finally give the green light to its giant copper mine in Arizona, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
“I do think that we have really good chances now to progress that project,” the miners top boss Jakob Stausholm told the newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday.
The stalled Resolution copper mine that Rio is developing with BHP Group could supply more than one quarter of the United States’ domestic copper needs for the highly conductive metal.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza)
