Rio Tinto (RIO) is seeking to divest its U.S. assets that produce the critical mineral boron, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg’s Yvonne Yue Li, Jacob Lorinc and Paul-Alain Hunt. The company is expected to start a sales process for the California assets in the next two weeks and buyers are likely to be private equity firms or chemical producers, the sources are reported to have said.
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