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Rio Tinto and Glencore in Talks to Form World’s Biggest Miner

Autonomous haul trucks at Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia. — Autonomous haul trucks at Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia.
Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

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By Thomas Biesheuvel and Jacob Lorinc

January 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM UTC

Updated on

January 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM UTC

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Rio Tinto Group is in talks to buy Glencore Plc to create the world’s biggest mining company with a combined market value of more than $200 billion, a little over a year after earlier talks between the two collapsed.