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6 unusual facts about Rio Tinto


Arch Coal

In October 2009, Arch acquired Rio Tinto's Jacobs Ranch mine and blended it with Black Thunder Coal Mine in the southern Powder River Basin of Wyoming, creating the single largest coal mining complex in the world.

Nhulunbuy

In November 2013 Rio Tinto announced the closure of the aluminium refinery with the loss of 1,100 jobs, or almost 25% of the town's population.

Tiwai Point

Rio Tinto has threatened to close the Tiwai Point smelter if it can't get a cheaper deal for electricity from retailer Meridian, or the Government fails to give it a substantial subsidy to cover recent losses due to the strengthening Kiwi dollar and a fall in aluminium prices.

Turquoise Hill Resources

Rio Tinto has expressed interest in raising its stake in the company from 35% to 46.6%, eventually leading to a takeover however Ivanhoe Mines is not interested in selling out.

2013 – June - Turquoise Hill Resources announced it had secured a $225-million non-revolving bridge facility from majority shareholder Rio Tinto.

The company was called Ivanhoe Mines until August 2, 2012 when an important financing agreement was made with Rio Tinto.


Churchill Falls Generating Station

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

Deforestation in Madagascar

Some reforestation efforts have been conducted by Rio Tinto, a mining organization.

Fallout and Follow Me

It presents companies such as Rio Tinto, Westinghouse and General Electric as characters as they go through several key moments in the history of uranium mining in Australia and other countries, such as the swindling of Australian, Canadian and South African governments in order to mine uranium, the 1961 court martial, and the introduction of the Ranger Uranium Mine enquiry report.

Fausto Elhuyar

After Mexican Independence, he returned to Spain, where, due to his wide experience in modern minery methods, he was appointed Minister of Minery in 1822, and supervised the modern mining of the mines in Almadén, Guadalcanal, and Río Tinto.

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

Heap leaching

Rio Tinto is commercializing this technology in Namibia and Australia, the French nuclear power company Areva in Niger (two mines) and Namibia, and several other companies are studying its feasibility.

Sanjaasürengiin Oyuun

Afterwards, she began working for a multinational mining company called Rio Tinto.

Shire of Peak Downs

Three more mines were opened in the 1990s – Ensham/Yongala, Crinum and Gordonstone (later purchased by Rio Tinto and renamed Kestrel Mine).


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Adam Parr

Parr then took up a series of increasingly senior executive posts during six years in Australia, firstly managing Rio Tinto’s extensive port and infrastructure in the remote Pilbara region, then running its Western Australian salt operations.

Fundación Impulsar

It was founded in 1999 in Salta in the north west of Argentina, when seven British businesses working in Argentina (including Unilever, British Gas, and Rio Tinto Borax), inspired by the work of the Princes Trust, agreed to fund a similar initiative.

RTZ

Rio Tinto Group (previously the Rio Tinto – Zinc Corporation), a British-Australian multinational metals and mining corporation

Serafin Baroja

The next year he wrote the libretto for the first Basque opera, Pudente, a story set in the mines of Rio Tinto at the time of Trajan.