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shock impairment, less than two years after Rio bought
Mozambique-focused Riversdale Mining in 2011, helped trigger the
departure of the group's then chief executive, Tom Albanese.
The sources, who cannot be named as the matter is not public,
said the ongoing discussions on Riversdale with U.S. regulators
were around accounting practices and were not related to the
group's headline-grabbing troubles around a payment to a
high-level adviser in Guinea.
Rio Tinto declined to comment.
Earlier this month, Rio reported to U.S., UK and Australian
authorities that it had uncovered 2011 emails detailing a
payment to a French consultant who had assisted the group in
Guinea. That year, Rio had successfully reclaimed the right to
mine part of the giant Simandou iron ore project.
It is not clear whether any of those regulators has yet begun a
formal investigation, though Rio is carrying out an internal
inquiry into the emails and the payment.
(Reporting by Clara Ferreira Marques and Jamie Freed; Editing by
Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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