July 16 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto reported

a 13% sequential rise in second-quarter iron ore shipments on

Wednesday, rebounding from extreme weather-related disruptions

earlier this year.

The world's largest iron ore producer shipped 79.9 million

metric tonnes (Mt) of the steel-making commodity from its

Pilbara operations in the three months ended June 30, up from

70.7 Mt shipped in the March quarter.

That missed a Visible Alpha consensus estimate of 81.98 Mt.

(Reporting by Roshan Thomas and Shivangi Lahiri in Bengaluru;

Editing by Devika Syamnath)