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Aluminium
Aluminium
Rio Tinto Alcan is one of the world's largest producers of bauxite, alumina and aluminium, operating in Queensland since the mid-1950s. We currently have two large capital projects planned or under way in the state – the Yarwun alumina refinery expansion and the South of Embley Project. Some of our aluminium businesses sit within Pacific Aluminium, and are being prepared for divestment.
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Gove
Located on the Gove Peninsula in the North East Arnhem Land region of Northern Territory, Australia, the operation includes an open pit bauxite mine, alumina refinery, port and ship loading facilities.
Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery sits within Pacific Aluminium and is being prepared for divestment.
1 Melville Bay Road
Nhulunbuy
NT
Australia 0881
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Weipa
Weipa mine is an open pit bauxite mine located in the city of Weipa in Western Cape York region of Queensland, Australia. The operation includes railway, port and ship loading facilities.
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Administration Building
Lorim Point
Weipa QLD
Australia 4874
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Bell Bay
Bell Bay aluminium smelter is located on the Tamar River in Tasmania, Australia. The operation produces alumnium slab, molten metal, small form and t-foundry and remelt.
Bell Bay aluminium smelter sits within Pacific Aluminium and is being prepared for divestment.
Bell Bay Road
Bell Bay
George Town TAS
Australia 7253
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Boyne Smelters Ltd:(59.39%)
Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) is located in Boyne Island, approximately 20 kilometres south of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia. The operation produces aluminium billet, EC grade, small form and t-foundry and remelt.
Boyne Smelters sits within Pacific Aluminium and is being prepared for divestment.
Handley Drive
Boyne Island
Gladstone QLD
Australia 4680
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Queensland Alumina Ltd:(80%)
Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) is an alumina refinery based in the southeast outskirts of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia. The operation produces alumina.
Parsons Point
Gladstone QLD
Australia 4680
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Tomago Aluminium:(51.55%)
Tomago Aluminium is an aluminium smelter located in the Hunter Valley, approximately 13 kilometres west of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. The operation produces alumnium billet, slab and remelt.
Tomago Aluminium sits within Pacific Aluminium and is being prepared for divestment.
Tomago Road
Tomago NSW
Australia 2322
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
NRG Gladstone Power Station:(42.125%)
NRG Gladstone Power Station is a coal-fired power station located in the northwest outskirts of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia. The operation burns black coal to produce electricity.
NRG Gladstone Power Station sits within Pacific Aluminium and is being prepared for divestment.
NRG Gladstone Power Station
Hanson Road
Gladstone
Queensland
Australia 4680
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
Yarwun
Alumina refinery located approximately 18 kilometers northwest of Gladstone in Queensland, Australia. The operation also includes a co-generation plant comprised of a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator providing process steam and power for the alumina refining operations. Excess power is sold to grid.
Hanson Road
Gladstone
Queensland 4680
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Copper
Copper
Rio Tinto's Australian copper mine, Northparkes, is in central west NSW. Mining began at Northparkes in 1994 and today our mines and ore-processing plant employ more than 600 people. It is one of the region's largest employers. Northparkes was the first mine in Australia to use the efficient, block-cave mining method, which relies on gravity and natural rock stresses to fragment and recover the ore. High-grade copper-gold concentrates are then shipped to smelters in Japan, China and India.
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Northparkes:(80%)
Based in New South Wales, Australia, Northparkes, a copper and gold mine, is a joint venture between Rio Tinto (80 per cent) and the Sumitomo Group (20 per cent). Northparkes operates both underground block cave mines and open cut mines on its mining leases and was the first in the country to use a variation of the cost effective block cave mining technique in its underground operations.
Northparkes' new E48 block cave project has increased resource tonnes and will extend the mine's life to 2023. By the end of 2012, Northparkes will begin testing a continuous mechanical rock excavation system. This breakthrough technology improves the speed and development of underground operations and allows recovery of valuable resources from increasingly difficult deposits.
PO Box 995
Parkes NSW 2870
Bogan Road, Goonumbla NSW
Australia 2870
T: +61 2 6861 3000
F: +61 2 6861 3100
http://www.northparkes.com.au
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Diamonds & Minerals
Diamonds & Minerals
The Diamonds & Minerals group comprises mining, refining and marketing operations across three sectors. Rio Tinto is one of the world's leading producers of rough diamonds. In Australia, the Argyle Diamond Mine, located in the rugged East Kimberley region of WA, is the world's largest producer of coloured diamonds, including champagnes, cognacs, greys, and the rarest of all, pink diamonds. Rio Tinto sells its Argyle production as predominantly rough diamonds, except for the rare Argyle pink diamonds, which are cut and polished in Perth.
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Argyle:(100%)
The Argyle Diamond Mine is the world's largest supplier of coloured diamonds, producing approximately 20 million carats each year from its operations in the East Kimberley region, in the remote north of Western Australia.
The Argyle Diamond Mine is 100 per cent owned and managed by Rio Tinto Limited.
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The Quadrant
Level 4, 1 William Street
Perth WA
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9482 1166
F: +61 8 9482 1161
E: info@argylediamonds.com.au
W: www.argylediamonds.com.au
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Energy
Energy
Rio Tinto's Energy business produces coal and uranium for global markets. Our Australian coal operations produce much of the world's thermal coal for electricity generation and coking coal that is used in global steel production. We are one of the world's biggest uranium producers, and account for about 14 per cent of global supply. We also invest heavily in research and technology to ensure our coal and uranium are used sustainably in the future.
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Bengalla:(30.3%)
Bengalla is an open cut mine, using a dragline and truck and excavator method and supplies international markets with up to six million tonnes of thermal coal per annum.
Bengalla's history as a project goes back to 1990, when the NSW Government called for expressions of interest from mining companies to develop a coal resource. Development Consent was granted for Bengalla in 1996 and the site commenced production in 1999.
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Hunter Valley Operations:(75.7%)
Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) is a large scale, multi-pit open cut coal mine, utilising dragline truck and shovel method of mining. Operations are centred in the Hunter Coalfield, which is part of a Permian coal basin known as the Sydney basin. HVO supplies international markets with up to 11 million tonnes of thermal and semi-soft coking coal per annum.
Production commenced at HVO in 1968 at the current West Pit, which was then part of the Howick mine. The Hunter Valley No. 1 mine began production in 1979. In 2000 Coal & Allied merged the Howick and Hunter Valley mines to create Hunter Valley Operations. The Lemington mine, which began production in 1971, was acquired and merged into Hunter Valley Operations in 2001.
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Mount Pleasant:(75.7%)
Coal & Allied completed a pre-feasibility study on the Mount Pleasant greenfield project in 2010 and is targeting a development decision on the project in 2011 upon completion of a full feasibility study. Mount Pleasant is located adjacent to the Bengalla mine and four kilometres from the town of Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales.
The proposed mine would produce up to 10.5 million tonnes of thermal coal for international markets. The deposit holds 350 million tonnes of thermal coal.
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W: www.coalandallied.com.au
Blair Athol Mine:(71.2%)
In 2010, Blair Athol Mine began to scale back its operations by 75 per cent down to a three million tonne production rate as it plans for closure in 2016. The mine has also been undertaking significant refurbishment works on its stacker/reclaimers to ensure they continue to operate safely, efficiently and reliably now that their operating life has been extended through the start up of the Clermont Mine.
Blair Athol Mine is working closely with the Clermont Mine as a united Clermont Region operation to ensure that Rio Tinto continues to be part of the Clermont community long into the future.
PO Box 491
Clermont Queensland
Australia 4721
T: +61 7 4980 2444
E: info@rtca.riotinto.com.au
S: marketing@rtca.riotinto.com.au
W: www.riotintocoalAustralia.com.au
Hail Creek Mine:(82%)
Hail Creek Mine, located 90 kilometres south west of Mackay in central Queensland, supplies steel mills in Asia and Europe with up to 8 million tonnes of hard coking coal per annum.
The coal deposit is part of the Bowen Basin, a significant Permian coal basin stretching 600km long and 250km wide. Coal is mined from two seams; the Elphinstone Seam, with an average thickness of 6.4 metres and the Hynds Seam, averaging 8.3 metres in thickness.
The open cut mine commenced operations in 2003 and is operational 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
PO Box 3097
North Mackay Queensland
Australia 4740
T: +61 7 4940 5711
E: info@rtca.riotinto.com.au
S: marketing@rtca.riotinto.com.au
W: www.riotintocoalAustralia.com.au
Clermont Mine:(50.1%)
The Clermont Mine is Queensland's and Rio Tinto Coal Australia's newest coal mine and is located 12 kilometres north west of Clermont township and approximately 15 kilometres south east of Blair Athol Mine.
Construction of the mine and associated infrastructure began in 2007 and its first shipment of coal was delivered in mid 2010. The mine will ramp up to producing more than 12 million tonnes of high quality thermal coal from 2013.
PO Box 491
Clermont Queensland
Australia 4721
T: +61 7 4980 2500
E: info@rtca.riotinto.com.au
S: marketing@rtca.riotinto.com.au
W: www.riotintocoalAustralia.com.au
Energy Resources of Australia:(68.4%)
Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) is one of the largest uranium producers in the world, delivering on average around 10 per cent of the world's mined uranium production
ERA's Ranger mine is located eight kilometres east of Jabiru and 260 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory.
Ranger is an open cut mine which commenced commercial production of drummed uranium oxide in 1981. ERA sells its product to power utilities in Asia, Europe and North America under strict international and Australian Government safeguards.
Rio Tinto, a diversified resources group, owns 68.4 per cent of ERA shares. The balance of the Company's shares are publicly held and traded on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Level 10, TIO Centre
24 Mitchell Street
GPO Box 2394
Darwin NT 0801
Australia
T: +61 8 8924 3500
F: +61 8 8924 3555
E: info@era.riotinto.com
W: http://www.energyres.com.au
Kestrel Mine:(80%)
Kestrel Mine is Rio Tinto Coal Australia's only underground operation. The mine is located 40 kilometres north east of Emerald in Central Queensland and produces more than 4.5 million tonnes of coking and thermal coal annually for export.
PO Box 1969
Emerald Queensland
Australia 4720
T: +61 7 4984 7500
E: info@rtca.riotinto.com.au
S: marketing@rtca.riotinto.com.au
W: www.riotintocoalAustralia.com.au
Kestrel Mine Extension:(80%)
An investment of more than US$1.1 billion is currently underway to extend the life of the Kestrel Mine to 2032. The existing Kestrel Mine workforce will transition to the new Kestrel Mine Extension as this project comes online with first production expected in early 2013.
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W:www.riotintocoalAustralia.com.au
Mount Thorley Operations / Warkworth:(60.6%)/(42.1%)
Mount Thorley Warkworth is an integrated operation of two open cut mines located adjacent to each other 15 kilometres south west of Singleton in the Hunter Valley region of NSW. The operation supplies international and domestic markets with up to 9 million tonnes of semi-soft coking coal and thermal coal per annum.
Mount Thorley has been in operation since 1981, and after a business restructuring of mining company W Miller, Coal & Allied became managers of the mine in 1989. Warkworth Mining began operations in the same year as Mount Thorley, 1981, and in 2001 Coal & Allied purchased an interest in the mine. In January 2004, the two mines were integrated to improve efficiency and operate as one business.
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W: www.coalandallied.com.au
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Iron Ore
Iron Ore
Rio Tinto is the second largest iron ore producer in the world, with most of our production in Australia. In the Pilbara, our 14 mines, three port facilities and 1,400km rail network allow us to respond rapidly to changes in demand. Rio Tinto is also the world's largest salt exporter through our 68.4 per cent owned subsidiary, Dampier Salt Limited.
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Iron Ore operations
Our Iron Ore business includes 14 iron ore mines, three port terminals, and 1,400km of railway in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. This includes our assets owned by Hamersley Iron and Robe River Iron Associates. Our integrated network of 14 iron ore mines include: West Angelas (53%); Brockman No.2/Nammuldi; Brockman No.4; Channar (60%); Eastern Range (54%); Hope Downs (50%); Marandoo; Tom Price/Western Turner Syncline; Paraburdoo; Yandicoogina; Mesa A (53%); Mesa J (53%)
We export iron ore from our ports on the Western Australian coast predominantly to steelmakers in eastern Asia and Europe. We have a large iron ore resource and reserve base in the Pilbara that is expected to sustain multiple decades of mining. Our Pilbara iron ore operations have an annual capacity of 225 million tonnes, with advanced plans to increase capacity to 283 million tonnes by 2013, on a pathway to 353 million tonnes by 2015.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Iron Ore operations
Our Iron Ore business includes 14 iron ore mines, three port terminals, and 1,400km of railway in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. This includes our assets owned by Hamersley Iron and Robe River Iron Associates. Our integrated network of 14 iron ore mines include: West Angelas (53%); Brockman No.2/Nammuldi; Brockman No.4; Channar (60%); Eastern Range (54%); Hope Downs (50%); Marandoo; Tom Price/Western Turner Syncline; Paraburdoo; Yandicoogina; Mesa A (53%); Mesa J (53%).
We export iron ore from our ports on the Western Australian coast predominantly to steelmakers in eastern Asia and Europe. We have a large iron ore resource and reserve base in the Pilbara that is expected to sustain multiple decades of mining. Our Pilbara iron ore operations have an annual capacity of 225 million tonnes, with advanced plans to increase capacity to 283 million tonnes by 2013, on a pathway to 353 million tonnes by 2015.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Operations Centre/HIsmelt® (60%)
Rio Tinto’s state-of-art Operations Centre (OC) in Perth has pioneered a bold, new and exciting approach to mining. By combining a large, centralised control room and a modern 5 Green Star designed office block, the OC has brought together in one facility for the first time more than 200 controllers and schedulers from pits, plants, rail, power and ports across Rio Tinto’s vast Pilbara operations, as well as more than 230 technical, planning and support staff.
HIsmelt, short for high-intensity smelting, is the world's first commercial direct smelting process for making iron straight from the ore. Fine iron ores and non-coking coals are injected directly into a molten iron bath, contained within a Smelt Reduction Vessel (SRV), to produce high quality molten pig iron. It can be considered both as a potential replacement for the blast furnace and as a new source of low cost iron units for BOF or EAF steelmaking.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Parker Point (Dampier)
Our three shipping terminals, including Parker Point, East Intercourse Island and Cape Lambert are managed as a single port system. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, product stockpiling and blending and ship loading. The assets at Parker Point include two car dumpers, four shipping berths and two ship loaders with a capacity of 100 million tonnes per annum. Parker Point is 100 per cent owned by Rio Tinto.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
East Intercourse Island (Dampier)
Our three shipping terminals, including Parker Point, East Intercourse Island and Cape Lambert are managed as a single port system. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, product stockpiling and blending and ship loading. The assets at East Intercourse Island include one car dumper, one berth and one ship loader with a capacity of 45 million tonnes per annum. East Intercourse Island is 100 per cent owned by Rio Tinto.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Cape Lambert
Our three shipping terminals, including Parker Point, East Intercourse Island and Cape Lambert are managed as a single port system. Each terminal has facilities for train unloading, product stockpiling and blending and ship loading. The assets at Cape Lambert include two car dumpers, four shipping berths, and two ship loaders with a capacity of 80 million tonnes per annum. Cape Lambert is joint venture between Rio Tinto 53 per cent, Mitsui 33 per cent, Nippon Steel 10.5 per cent and Sumitomo Metal Industries 3.5 per cent.
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Dampier:(68%)
Dampier Salt (DSL), the world's largest salt exporter, produces industrial salt by solar evaporation of sea water at Dampier, a coastal iron ore port that serves Rio Tinto's iron mines, and from underground brine at Lake MacLeod, both in Western Australia.
Dampier Salt operates with a salt stock policy which requires the retention of at least one year's sales as stock at the operations. This stock is held as a combination of dry product and as solid stock in the crystallisers.
The Dampier operation was the first and still the largest producer of the Dampier Salt site and was established in 1967, with the first shipment to Japan in 1972.
37 Belmont Avenue
Belmont WA
Australia 6104
T: +61 (8) 9270 9270
F: +61 (8) 9270 9370
W: www.dampiersalt.com.au
Port Hedland:(68%)
The Port Hedland operation is Dampier Salt's most recent acquisition, purchased in 2001, and covers just over 9000 hectares of operational area.
The production process at Port Hedland begins with sea water from the Indian ocean. Powerful pumps with a total capacity of 1640 cubic metres per minute transfer the seawater into a nine-pond concentration system. Salinity is increased through each step of the system, which spans 7,800 hectares. Gravity causes the seawater to flow through the initial concentration ponds after which transfer pumps life the brine to flow into the final concentration pond. The saturation of the original seawater has increased from 17 to 90 per cent.
37 Belmont Avenue
Belmont WA
Australia 6104
T: +61 8 9270 9270
F: +61 8 9270 9370
W: www.dampiersalt.com.au
Lake MacLeod:(68%)
Lake MacLeod has our greatest opportunity for expansion. Its current operating area is 764 hectares with plans in place to expand operations to 1000 hectares by 2014 on a lease of 220,000 hectares.
The saturated brine contained in Lake MacLeod is approximately 10 times saltier than normal seawater, eliminating the need for a series of concentration ponds normally required to evaporate water to reach "salting" point (sodium chloride saturation).
37 Belmont Avenue
Belmont WA
Australia 6104
T: +61 8 9270 920
F: +61 8 9270 9370
W: www.dampiersalt.com.au
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Rio Tinto Limited
Head office
120 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC
Australia 3000
T: +61 3 9283 3333
F: +61 3 9283 3707
W: www.riotinto.com
Rio Tinto Iron Ore
Head office
152-158 St George's Terrace
Perth, WA
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9366 5468
E: CommunicationsExternalRelations WA@riotinto.com
W: www.riotintoironore.com
Procurement, Perth
Rio Tinto Procurement - Perth
GPO Box A42
Perth WA
Australia 6000
W: www.procurement.riotinto.com
T&I Bundoora
Technology & Innovation
1 Research Avenue
Bundoora VIC
Australia 3083
T: +61 3 9242 3111
F: +61 3 9242 3272
T&I Perth
Technology & Innovation
Level 25
152-158 St Georges Terrace
Perth WA
Australia 6000
T: +61 8 9327 2000
F: +61 8 9327 2999
Rio Tinto Energy
Headquarters for Rio Tinto Energy and Coal & Allied Industries Ltd
123 Albert Street
Brisbane
Qld
Australia 4000
T: +61 7 3625 3000
F: +61 7 3625 3001
E: info@rtca.riotinto.com.au
W: www.riotintocoalaustralia.com.au
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Procurement, Brisbane
Rio Tinto Procurement - Brisbane
GPO Box 207
Brisbane, QLD
Australia 4000
W: www.procurement.riotinto.com
Rio Tinto Alcan Australia
123 Albert Street
Brisbane
Qld
Australia 4000
T: +61 7 3625 3000
F: +61 7 3625 3001
W: www.riotintoalcan.com
T&I Brisbane
Technology & Innovation
123 Albert Street
Brisbane
Qld
Australia 4000
T: +61 7 3625 3000
F: +61 7 3625 3001