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The Weipa bauxite mine is a bauxite mine at Weipa on the western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. A geologist named Harry Evans discovered the vast bauxite resource in 1955. [1] Operations commenced in 1963. 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 present town was constructed mainly by Comalco (now called Rio Tinto), a large aluminium company, which began making trial shipments of bauxite to Japan in 1962. A railway was constructed to transport the ore from the mine at Andoom to the export facility at Lorim Point. [26] Weipa bauxite mine is among the world's
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 ...
Bauxite mining in Gove started in that same year in 1971. [27] In 2001, the Gove mine was purchased by Alcan, who in 2002 renamed Nabalco to Alcan Gove. [28] Rio Tinto then bought Alcan in 2007 for $38.1 billion and was renamed Rio Tinto Alcan. [29]
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
It mines and manufactures bauxite, alumina and primary aluminium. Rio Tinto Aluminium is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group and provides about 20% of Australia's total production of bauxite, 8% of its alumina and 24% of its primary aluminium. In 2002, Rio Tinto Aluminium earned US$256 million for its shareholder Rio Tinto.
Rio Tinto Group (NYSE: RIO) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Feb 19, 2025, 3:00 p.m. ET. Contents: Prepared Remarks. Questions and Answers. Call Participants. Prepared Remarks: Jakob Stausholm-- Chief ...
The Rio Tinto area has been the site of approximately 5,000 years of ore mining, [3] including copper, silver, gold, and other minerals, [4] extracted as far as 20 kilometres from the river shores. [2] As a possible result of the mining, the Río Tinto is notable for being very acidic (pH 2) and its deep reddish hue is due to iron dissolved in ...