{"id":1049305,"date":"2018-09-28T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1049305"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T15:28:09","slug":"chinese-interested-in-buying-rio-tintos-namibian-uranium-mine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1049305","title":{"rendered":"Chinese interested in buying Rio Tinto\u2019s Namibian uranium mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), the world’s second largest miner, has been talking to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) about selling the state-owned company its stake in Namibia’s R\u00f6ssing uranium mine.<\/p>\n

While the mining giant has not officially acknowledged the negotiations with CNNC, Namibia’s energy minister Simeon Negumbo confirmed them to local paper The Namibian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rio has close to a 69 percent interest in the mine, the world’s longest-running open pit uranium operation, while the rest is held by the Iranian Foreign Investment Company (15 percent), the Industrial Corporation of South African (10 percent), the government of Namibia (3 percent) and local interests (3 percent).<\/p>\n

More to come\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The post Chinese interested in buying Rio Tinto’s Namibian uranium mine<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

From:: Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), the world’s second largest miner, has been talking to China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) about selling the state-owned company its stake in Namibia’s R\u00f6ssing uranium mine. While the mining giant has not officially acknowledged the negotiations with CNNC, Namibia’s energy minister Simeon Negumbo confirmed them to local paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infomine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}