SYDNEY: Mining giant Rio Tinto said its underlying earnings dived to their lowest point for a decade in the first half on Wednesday, hit by weak commodity prices, even as its net profits surged.

Underlying profits— investors’ preferred measure—at the world’s second-biggest miner fell 47 percent from a year earlier to $1.56 billion in the six months through June.

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