Record Profits and Blockbuster Payouts: Here Come the Miners
- Five big miners could report combined earnings of $85 billion
- Rio Tinto, Vale and Anglo report financial results this week
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The world’s biggest mining companies are about to start revealing how much cash they’re churning out from this year’s commodity boom. Look out for record profits followed by eye-watering dividend payouts.
The top-five western diversified miners may have earned a combined $85 billion for the first half of the year, according to analyst estimates, more than double the level from a year ago. Rio Tinto Group, the first to report on Wednesday, is expected to announce $22 billion of profit for the six months, on a par with its total for all of 2020.