UPDATE 1-Rio Tinto's U.S. copper smelter restarts, force majeure remains
November 20, 2017 at 17:20 PM EST
Nov 20 (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto Plc restarted the smelter at its large Kennecott mine in the United States last Friday after a nearly six-week outage but force majeure on refined copper has not yet been lifted, a company spokesman said on Monday.