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On 23 January 2024, Northwestern Air Flight 738, a British Aerospace Jetstream, was chartered by the Rio Tinto Group to carry mine workers from Fort Smith to the Diavik Diamond Mine, located around 300 km (190 mi) northeast of Yellowknife.
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 ...
The mine is owned by a joint venture between the Rio Tinto Group (60%) and Dominion Diamond Corporation (40%), and is operated by Yellowknife-based Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. Commercial production commenced in 2003, and the lifespan of the mine is expected to be 16 to 22 years.
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 ...
Mining giant Rio Tinto Plc has tried for more than a quarter century to launch Arizona's Resolution copper project, which would be one of the world's largest underground mines. The company and ...
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A. ^ Harry Winston Diamond Mines owns 40% and Diavik Diamond Mines, which is 100% owned by the Rio Tinto, owns 60%. B. ^ Dominion Diamond Corporation owns 88.9% while Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson each own 10%. C. ^ Mountain Province Diamonds owns 44%, De Beers Canada 51% and Camphor Ventures 4.9% D. ^ Pine Point and Port Radium are ghost ...
The Virginian mining district in Halifax and Charlotte Counties in southern Virginia produced about 750,000 pounds of copper from numerous mines. Copper-bearing quartz veins occur in greenstone schist along a narrow belt stretching four miles NNE-SSW from Keysville on the north to Virgilina on the North Carolina border.