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Rio Grande, a Berkshire Hathaway Company since 2013, offers jewelry-making supplies. While specializing in silver findings and fabrication materials, the company also provides metalsmithing tools and equipment, jewelry displays and packaging products, jewelry workbenches, casting machines and kilns, soldering and welding torches, gemstones ...
The original Rio Grande Industries changed its name to Rio Grande Holding (or Rio Grande Holding, Inc.) in 1988 [2] and a new Rio Grande Industries company was formed in 1988; [3] the new Rio Grande Industries took control of the original Rio Grande Industries (now known as Rio Grande Holding).
Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at El Moro, c. 1900. The first, and only until World War II, integrated iron and steel mill west of St. Louis was built in 1881 in Pueblo on the south side of the Arkansas River by the Colorado Coal and Iron Company (CC&L), an affiliate of the narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company (D&RG), controlled by General William Jackson Palmer and Dr. William ...
By the 1960s, the mill was at capacity and in 1967, the company acquired a minimill in Sao Paulo. In 1970, the company became a public company via listings on the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange and Sao Paulo Stock Exchange. [2] In the 1980s, the company acquired more steel mills during the privatization of state-owned Brazilian steel companies. [2]
[3] [7] [8] Gypsum was mined at the top of Blue Diamond Hill and was transported by tram to the area below, where it was processed. [3] [9] The Blue Diamond Corporation subsequently built a company town in 1942, named Blue Diamond, Nevada. [3] The mine, plant, and mill were expanded over the next decade. As of 1954, it had 325 employees. [10]
In 1966, the company inaugurated in Espírito Santo the Port of Tubarão, which was to become the most important port for CVRD and is still used to export iron ore mined from the Iron Quadrangle in Minas Gerais. [29] The company acquired a majority interest in the Carajás Mine, with over 1.5 billion tonnes of iron ore in reserves, in 1970. [31]
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Gold Bond of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, issued 1. July 1890. The Rio Grande Southern Railroad (reporting mark RGS, also referred to as "The Southern") was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad which ran in the southwestern region of the US state of Colorado, from the towns of Durango to Ridgway, routed via Lizard Head Pass.