Rio Tinto’s New Chief Executive Faces Test on What to Do With Lithium

Rio Tinto last year bet big on lithium. Its new chief executive officer will in the coming week set out whether the commodity has a prominent future at the world’s second-largest mining company.

- RHIANNON HOYLE AND ADAM WHITTAKER

Rio Tinto had pushed hard to advance a lithium project in Serbia that would have been among the biggest in Europe.

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