Overview

Aluminium

Products: Bauxite, alumina, aluminium metal

The Aluminium product group, Rio Tinto Alcan, is one of the world's largest producers of bauxite, alumina and aluminium, benefiting from a sustainable, low cost energy supply. It operates mainly in Canada and Australia, with interests in Europe, New Zealand, Africa, South America and the US. The group is organised into four business units, Bauxite & Alumina, Primary Metal, Engineered Products and Packaging, the latter two of which are to be divested.

Copper & Diamonds

Products: Mined copper in concentrate, refined copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, magnetite, vermiculite, diamonds

The Copper group is a world leader in copper production, comprising Kennecott Utah Copper in the US, and interests in some of the world's largest copper mines and development projects, including Escondida in Chile, Grasberg in Indonesia, the Resolution and Pebble projects in the US, the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia and the La Granja project in Peru.

The Diamonds group is a leading supplier of rough diamonds, comprising interests in the Diavik mine in Canada, the Argyle mine in Australia, and the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe, served by a diamond sales office in Belgium.

Energy & Minerals

Products: Coking and thermal coal, uranium, titanium dioxide feedstock, borates, talc

The Energy group is one of the biggest suppliers in its markets, represented in coal by Rio Tinto Coal Australia and Coal & Allied in Australia, and by Rio Tinto Energy America in the US. It also includes uranium interests in Energy Resources of Australia and the Rössing Uranium mine in Namibia, both among the world's largest uranium operations.

The industrial minerals businesses are global leaders in the supply and science of their products, comprising Rio Tinto Minerals, made up of borates and talc operations in the US, South America, Europe and Australia, as well as Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium which has interests in North America, South Africa and Madagascar.

Iron Ore

Products: Iron ore, pig iron, salt, gypsum

The Iron Ore group is the second largest contributor to the world's seaborne iron ore trade with interests that comprise Hamersley Iron and Robe River in Australia, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Corumbá in Brazil, and the Simandou, Guinea, and Orissa, India, projects. The group includes the HIsmelt® direct iron making plant in Australia, employing a new, cleaner iron making process developed largely by Rio Tinto. It also includes the Dampier Salt operations at three sites in Western Australia.

Exploration

The Exploration group is organised into five teams based in North America, South America, Australia, Asia and Africa/Europe and a sixth project generation team that searches the world for new opportunities and provides specialised geological, geophysical and commercial expertise to the regional teams.

Technology & Innovation

Technology & Innovation has bases in Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. Its role is to identify and promote operational technology best practice across the Group and to pursue step change innovation of strategic importance to the development of orebodies of the future.