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Rio quits Tasman's Vulcan

RIO Tinto Exploration has backed out of its Vulcan iron oxide-copper-gold-uranium joint venture in South Australia, leaving Tasman Resources as sole owner of the project.

Justin Niessner
Rio quits Tasman's Vulcan

The move follows 12,000m of drilling by Tasman under a farm-in agreement begun in late 2012. Tasman said the drilling had not yet intersected thick medium-to-high grade mineralisation comparable to...

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