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12 unusual facts about Rio Tinto Group


Bougainville Civil War

The discovery of vast copper ore deposits in Bougainville's Crown Prince Range in 1969 led to the establishment of a huge copper mine by the Australian company Conzinc Rio Tinto.

Crandon mine

However, after Kennecott's buyout by Rio Tinto Zinc, and the governorship of the pro-business Tommy Thompson, the mine was allowed to open in face of the opposition, and operated from 1993 to 1997.

David Clementi

Clementi also holds positions on the boards of several large corporations, including Chairman of Prudential plc, one of Britain's largest insurance companies, and is a non-executive director on the board of governors of the Rio Tinto Group.

David Lidington

His early jobs involved work for BP and Rio Tinto Group before being appointed in 1987 as special adviser to the then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd.

Deforestation in Madagascar

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

Eiffel Flats

The village began in 1905 as a residential township for the Cam and Motor gold mine, operated by Rio Tinto Group, now Rio Zim.

Football in Spain

The oldest football club in Spain is Recreativo de Huelva, formed on December 23, 1889 by Dr. Aaron Mackay and British workers employed by the Rio Tinto Company.

GE Evolution Series

Rio Tinto Group has ordered 51 ES44DCi locomotives for operation on their privately owned rail line, operated by Pilbara Iron.

Jadarite

Exploration geologists from Rio Tinto Exploration discovered the mineral as small rounded nodules in drill core, and after being unable to match it with previously known minerals enlisted the expertise of Chris Stanley, from the Natural History Museum, who later described it as being unique to mineralogy.

Kadoma District

Under the present regime, Cam and Motor is owned by Rio Tinto Zimbabwe.

RTZ

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

Sanjaasürengiin Oyuun

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


120 Collins Street

The building is home to a number of high-profile tenants including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Rothschild, Standard & Poor's, Bluescope Steel, Mitsubishi, Rio Tinto Group, Ord Minnet, plus Citigroup's Melbourne office.

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.

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.

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.

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