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Operations & financial report

Group smelters and refineries

Smelter/refinery Location Title/lease Plant type/product Capacity as of December 31, 2007
RIO TINTO ALCAN        
Alma Alma, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium rod, t-foundry, sow, molten metal 415,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Alouette (40%) Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot, sow 572,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Alucam (46.7%) Edea, Cameroon 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, ingot 100,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Anglesey (51%) Anglesey, Wales, UK 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, block, sow 145,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Arvida Arvida, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, molten metal 166,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Beauharnois Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot foundry 52,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Becancour (25%) Becancour, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, slab, t-foundry, t-bar 404,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Bell Bay Bell Bay, Northern Tasmania, Australia 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot, block, t-bar 178,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Boyne Island Smelters (59%) Boyne Island, Queensland, Australia 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot, billet, t-bar 545,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Dunkerque Dunkerque, France 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, t-foundry, t-bar 259,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Gardanne Gardanne, France 100% Freehold Refinery producing specialty aluminas 635,000 tonnes per year specialty aluminas
(including 133 000 tonnes of smelter grade aluminas)
Gove Gove, Northern Territory, Australia 100% Leasehold.
(Commonwealth land held in trust on behalf of Traditional Owners).
Numerous lots with varying expiry dates starting 2011
Refinery producing alumina 2,000,000 tonnes per year alumina
La Grande-Baie Grande-Baie, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, sow, molten metal 207,000 tonnes per year aluminium
ISAL Reykjavik, Iceland 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, t-bar 179,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Kitimat Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, slab, ingot 277,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Laterriere Laterriere, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, t-bar, molten metal 228,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Lochaber Fort William, Scotland, UK 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, t-bar 43,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Lynemouth Lynemouth, Northumberland, UK 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, t-bar 178,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Ningxia (50%) Qingtongxia, China 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot 152,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Queensland Alumina (80%) Gladstone, Queensland, Australia 73.3% Freehold.
26.7% Leasehold
(of which more than 80% expires in 2026 and after)
Refinery producing alumina 3,953,000 tonnes per year alumina
Sao Luis (Alumar) (10%) Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil 100% Freehold Refinery producing alumina 140,000 tonnes per year (10%) of alumina which will increase to 350,000 tonnes per year after expansion in 2009
St-Jean-de-Maurienne St-Jean-de-Maurienne, France 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium slab, rod 135,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Sebree Kentucky, US 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, ingot foundry, t-bar 196,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Shawinigan Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, sow 99,000 tonnes per year aluminium
SORAL (50%) Husnes, Norway 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet 164,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Tiwai Point (New Zealand Aluminium Smelters) (79%) Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand 19.6% Freehold.
80.4% Leasehold (expiring in 2029 and use of certain Crown land)
Aluminium smelter producing aluminium ingot, billet, t-bar 352,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Tomago (51.6%) Tomago, New South Wales, Australia 100% Freehold Aluminium smelter producing aluminium billet, slab, ingot 520,000 tonnes per year aluminium
Vaudreuil (Jonquiere) Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Refinery producing alumina 1,300,000 tonnes per year alumina
Yarwun Gladstone, Queensland, Australia 97% Freehold.
3% Leasehold (expiring in 2101 and after)
Refinery producing alumina 1,400,000 tonnes per year alumina
COPPER GROUP
Kennecott Utah Copper Magna, Salt Lake City, Utah, US 100% Freehold Flash smelting furnace/Flash convertor furnace copper refinery 335,000 tonnes per year refined copper
Palabora (58%) Phalaborwa, South Africa 100% Freehold Reverberatory Pierce Smith copper refinery 130,000 tonnes per year refined copper
INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
Boron California, US 100% Freehold Borates refinery 565,000 tonnes per year boric oxide
QIT-Fer et Titane Sorel Plant Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada 100% Freehold Ilmenite smelter 1,100,000 tonnes per year titanium dioxide slag, 900,000 tonnes per year iron
Richards Bay Minerals (50%) Richards Bay, South Africa 100% Freehold Ilmenite smelter 1,060,000 tonnes per year titanium dioxide slag
IRON ORE GROUP
HIsmeltŪ (60%) Kwinana, Western Australia 100% Leasehold (expiring in 2010 with rights of renewal for further 25 year terms) HIsmeltŪ ironmaking plant producing pig iron 800,000 tonnes per year pig iron
IOC Pellet Plant (59%) Labrador City, Newfoundland, Canada 100% Leaseholds (expiring in 2020, 2022 and 2025 with rights of renewal for further terms of 30 years) Pellet induration furnaces producing multiple iron ore pellet types 13,500,000 tonnes per year pellet

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