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The operating company Boyne Smelters Ltd is majority owned by Rio Tinto (73.50%) with the balance held by a consortium of Japanese participants including YKK Aluminium (9.50%), UACJ Corporation (9.29%) and Southern Cross Aluminium (a joint venture between Sumitomo and Marubeni) (7.71%).
The mine is owned by Rio Tinto. Power to the mine is supplied via a 6.7MW solar photovoltaic solar farm on site. [ 1 ] The majority of the mined bauxite is sent to the Queensland Alumina Limited and Rio Tinto Aluminum Yarwun refineries, both located in Gladstone .
100% Rio Tinto Alcan (Alcan 2006) Canada Saguenay, Quebec 180 100% Rio Tinto Alcan (Alcan 2006) China Zhengzhou Institute 20 100% Chinalco [8] France Beyrede 28 100% Rio Tinto Alcan (Alcan 2006) France Gardanne 650 100% Rio Tinto Alcan (Alcan 2006), specialty alumina only since 2007 France La Bathie 31 100% Rio Tinto Alcan (Alcan 2006) Germany
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). [3] It was founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto, in Huelva, Spain, from the Spanish government. It has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions.
In 2002, Rio Tinto Aluminium earned US$256 million for its shareholder Rio Tinto. In 2006 Rio Tinto Aluminium was the largest receiver of budgetary assistance from the Australian government, Rio Tinto Aluminium had received over $287 million in assistance from Australian tax dollars. RTA owns the Weipa bauxite mine, Yarwun Alumina Refinery, and ...
Rio Tinto allocated a further A$1.24 billion in early December 2010, to expand the Brockman 4 mine to 40 million tonnes per annum, from 22, as well as develop its Western Turner Syncline project, raising planned production there from 6 to 15 million tonnes, with the aim of increasing the Pilbara production to 283 million tonnes per annum by ...
In June 2011 Rio Tinto paid $502 million for 55 million additional shares, increasing its control to 46.5% from 42% (35% prior to that) and giving it an extra seat on the board (up to 7/14), though Rio Tinto was restricted from increasing its stake in the company to a majority before 2012. Since 2006 Rio Tinto invested $3.5 billion in Ivanhoe ...
The mine is owned by Robe River Iron Associates (53% Rio Tinto) and operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore and is one of twelve iron ore mines the company operates in the Pilbara. [3] [4] In 2009, the combined Pilbara operations produced 202,000,000 tonnes (199,000,000 long tons; 223,000,000 short tons) of iron ore, a 15 percent increase from 2008. [5]