BARRY FITZGERALD

Friedland and Rio become country NSW neighbours in strategic metals

THERE is no love lost between billionaire mining entrepreneur Robert Friedland and Rio Tinto, writes <b>Barry FitzGerald</b>.

Barry FitzGerald
Robert Friedland's Sunrise Energy Metals has a new neighbour in Rio Tinto

Robert Friedland's Sunrise Energy Metals has a new neighbour in Rio Tinto

The two had a punch-on back in 2010-12 over control of Friedland's original Ivanhoe Mines and its monster Turquoise Hill (now Oyu Tolgoi) copper-gold project in Mongolia. Friedland had brought Rio in...

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