自从2007年收购加拿大铝业公司遭到惨重损失后，这是力拓首次尝试如此大的收购。

Rio's offer for Riversdale is its first attempt at a sizeable acquisition since a disastrous purchase of Alcan in 2007.

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“如果铝价继续下跌，我们可能会加快这一进程”，这个力拓的加拿大铝业首席执行官埃文斯说。

If prices fall further then we might accelerate that, "said Evans, chief executive of the Rio Tinto Alcan business."

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它也觊觎加拿大铝业集团——一个法加铝业公司，但是去年被力拓中标。

It also had its eye on Alcan, a big French-Canadian aluminum operator, but was outbid last year by Rio Tinto.

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