Rio Tinto’s Nine-Month Iron Ore Sales Rise 3% to 255.3 Million Tons

By David WinningSYDNEY--Rio Tinto stuck with its annual forecast for global iron ore sales after a 3% on-year improvement in the three months through September, and signaled its operations have felt a limited impact from the Middle East conflict so far.Rio Tinto said it sold 90.8 million metric ton…