Rio's London-listed shares rose 20 per cent to ￡15.14 after it pledged to cut net debt by $10bn from $38.9bn by the end of next year by slashing $5bn from its capital expenditure budget, cutting 13 per cent off its workforce and putting mines up for sale.
About 8,500 of the jobs will come from contractors no longer needed to build new mines, but about 5,500 jobs will be cut from Rio's payroll, including staff at its London headquarters.
Tom Albanese, chief executive, said Rio was confident it could service its debt, most of which was taken on to pay for the takeover of Alcan, the Canadian aluminium producer, last year.
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