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.
对喜欢打板球的力拓(Rio Tinto)高管而言，对Riversdale矿业(Riversdale Mining)的收购想必感觉很像经历了漫长的冬日室内练习之后，啪的一声将一个慢球击出场外。力拓开价35亿美元收购Riversdale的尝试很可能会无果而终：要成功赢得Riversdale，力拓需要钢铁制造商塔塔(Tata)和巴西国家黑色冶金公司(CSN)的支持，而这两者都是Riversdale的重要战略股东。但力拓毕竟是在考虑竞购，这个事实表明，这家英澳矿商已经从收购加拿大铝业(Alcan)后的恐慌情绪中复元。
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