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Adam Parr also briefly worked with the Walk Free Foundation, which aims to eliminate modern slavery by 2020. [ 11 ] From 2013 to 2020, Parr was a trustee of the River Learning Trust , a multi-academy trust based in Oxford whose schools include The Cherwell School .
Rio Tinto Company Limited's board of directors met for the first time in London on March 31, 1873, under the chairmanship of Hugh Matheson. One of its first decisions was the construction of a railway line, under the advice of the engineer George Barclay Bruce . [ 11 ]
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 early 1888, Anti-Smoke League agriculturalists and Rio Tinto workers came together to protest the company practice of open-air pyrite calcination in blast furnaces. [2] It was an unlikely alliance, as the Anti-Smoke League desired an end to calcination, based on what the toxic fumes did to local farmland, but the workers understood its necessity and were willing to accept recompense in ...
Over the past year, a number of high-profile companies have done about-faces on diversity, including Meta (), Walmart (), McDonald's (), Lowe’s (), Ford (), Tractor Supply (), and John Deere ...
"The Rothschild Brothers") of Paris and N M Rothschild & Sons of London joined with other investors to acquire the Spanish government's money-losing Rio Tinto copper mines. The new owners restructured the company and turned it into a profitable business. By 1905, the Rothschild interest in Rio Tinto amounted to more than 30%.
Hu was formerly an executive of Rio Tinto mining group in Shanghai, [1] having graduated from Peking University before obtaining Australian citizenship in 1994. [2] He was released in July 2018 after serving eight years of a ten year prison sentence.
The Simandou mine has known much turmoil and many mining rights disputes over the years. In 2008 Rio Tinto Group, the licensee of the Simandou concession, was ordered by the Guinean government to relinquish the northern half (Blocks 1 and 2, east and southeast of Kérouané) to BSGR (Beny Steinmetz Group Resources), a company controlled by the Israeli diamond investor Beny Steinmetz.