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RIM has promised it will create a committee to study theissue and report back early next year.
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* Rio pays Guinea $700 mln to settle dispute
* Paves way for development of Simandou iron ore blocks
* Plans first iron ore shipment by mid-2015
* To invest $10 bln in project (Adds details
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By Bate Felix
DAKAR, April 22 (Reuters) - Mining giant Rio Tinto (RIO.L: Quote)said on Friday it would pay the government of Guinea $700million after reaching an agreement to resolve all outstandingdisputes over blocks 3 and 4 of its Simandou iron ore project.
The company said in an emailed statement to Reuters that ithad signed a settlement to secure Rio's mining title for thesouthern Simandou blocks, paving the way for some $10 billionin investment and the first shipment of iron ore by mid-2015.
Anglo-Australian Rio once controlled all of the Simandouconcession but it was stripped of the northern half, and lastyear Guinea's government said it might also lose the southernblocks, where Rio is looking to partner with China's Chalco.
"Today's agreement gives us the certainty we need to allowus to invest and move forward quickly so we can bring thisgreat resource into production," Sam Walsh, Rio Tinto IronOre's chief executive, said in the statement.
Guinea stripped Rio of blocks 1 and 2 during the rule offormer president Lansana Conte, who died in December 2008 andwas replaced in a bloodless coup by a military junta.
Rio has long sought to win the blocks back but BSG, a firmcontrolled by Israeli billionaire diamond trader BenySteinmetz, secured them