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The capsule was being transported 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) from Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine near Newman to a depot in the Perth suburb of Malaga. The Department of Fire and Emergency Services announced to the public on 27 January that the capsule had gone missing, and that the capsule was potentially deadly and could cause burns and ...
In the mid-1920s, mining was suspended for a few years due to the bankruptcy of the owner. In 1939, the mine was acquired by the family firm of Talkumwerke Naintsch. In 1988 the pit went into the possession of the Rio Tinto Group. In the 1990s, the mine and its associated processing works produced around 30,000 tonnes of talc per year.
In 1873, the Riotinto mines were acquired by the Rio Tinto Company Limited (RTC), giving rise to an important mining and industrial boom in the area. This resulted in the arrival of many immigrants to the area to meet the labor needs that had arisen, in a context of overcrowding in unhealthy working villages and extraordinarily harsh working conditions. [1]
It already owns one of the world's biggest copper mines at Bingham Canyon in Utah, but with operations there sidelined as a result of a massive wall collapse earlier this year, Rio Tinto is ...
Communities around Rio Tinto's shuttered copper mine in Bougainville face a serious threat of flooding due to unstable mine instrastructure, an interim report commissioned by the mining company ...
Last month, Serbia reinstated Rio's licence to develop what would be Europe's biggest lithium mine, two years after the previous government halted the process due to concerns by environmental groups.
Ministerial consent had been given to expand Rio Tinto's mine in 2013 under Western Australian legislation. [ 2 ] Prior to its destruction, the cave in Juukan Gorge was an ancient site that had been excavated several times with the help of the traditional owners of the land, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (Binigura) peoples.
From 1877 to 1891, the Rio Tinto Mine was the world's leading producer of copper. [16] The open-pit Corta Atalaya mine was part of Rio Tinto's original operations in Spain. From 1870 through 1925, the company was inwardly focused on fully exploiting the Rio Tinto Mine, with little attention paid to expansion or exploration activities outside of ...