Rio Tinto is buying Arcadium Lithium at a time when slowing demand for electric vehicles ... Memories of its disastrous $38bn takeover of Canadian aluminium group Alcan in 2007 — right at the top of ...

Rio Tinto has agreed to buy Arcadium Lithium for $6.7bn in cash, in a deal that highlights how mining companies are positioning themselves for the growth of electric vehicles. The Anglo-Australian ...