By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Australian shareholders in Rio Tinto have welcomed the mining giant's decision to end merger talks with Glencore, and said it is now up to the company to deliver on a new strategy that it has put so much weight on.

Since January, British-Australian Rio Tinto and Glencore, based in Switzerland, have been discussing a potential merger that would have created the world's largest mining company with a value of $300 ...

"The key terms of the potential ​offer were Rio Tinto retaining both ‌the chairman and chief executive officer roles and delivering a proforma ownership of the ​combined company which, in our view, si...