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Kaaren Morrissey

'Limited visibility': iron ore miner eyes Middle East

The production of key revenue earner iron ore has been ramping up for Rio Tinto. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

The world's biggest iron ore producer has low visibility of how the ongoing crisis in the Middle East will affect the back end of the year, after so far weathering most of its global disruptions.

Rio Tinto, which is one of Australia's biggest corporate tax and royalties payers after handing over $9.5 billion in 2025, revealed on Tuesday it sold two per cent more iron ore in the March quarter than in the same period the year before.

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