To cricket-loving executives at Rio Tinto, a tilt at Riversdale Mining must feel like smacking a slow ball out of the ground after a long winter spent practising indoors. The US$3.5bn approach may well come to nothing: to win Riversdale, Rio would need the support of steelmakers Tata and CSN, which are both big strategic shareholders in the target. But the fact that the Anglo-Australian miner is weighing a bid at all suggests it has emerged from its post-Alcan funk.
對喜歡打板球的力拓(Rio Tinto)高管而言，對Riversdale礦業(yè)(Riversdale Mining)的收購想必感覺很像經(jīng)歷了漫長的冬日室內(nèi)練習之后，啪的一聲將一個慢球擊出場外。力拓開價35億美元收購Riversdale的嘗試很可能會無果而終：要成功贏得Riversdale，力拓需要鋼鐵制造商塔塔(Tata)和巴西國家黑色冶金公司(CSN)的支持，而這兩者都是Riversdale的重要戰(zhàn)略股東。但力拓畢竟是在考慮競購，這個事實表明，這家英澳礦商已經(jīng)從收購加拿大鋁業(yè)(Alcan)后的恐慌情緒中復元。