Performance data

Issues 2004 2005 2006
Social      
Employees  32,000  32,000  35,000
Fatalities  1  2  3
Lost time injury frequency rate (LTIFR)   0.65  0.56  0.50
All injury frequency rate (AIFR)   1.51  1.35  1.10

Fines and prosecutions -
safety (US$ '000)

 19.2  87.9  34.8
New cases of occupational illness
 (per 10,000 employees)
 68*  47*  32
Fines and prosecutions -
health (US$ '000)
 256.8  58.1  3.0
Community contributions
(US$ million)
 87.8  93.4  96.4
Environment      
Environmental Management System (EMS) certification
(% operations)
 73%*  90%  95%
Significant environmental incidents  16  8  8
Significant spills  4  2  3
Fines and prosecutions -
Environment (US$ '000)
 53.8  67.9  56.8
Energy use (Petajoules)   232  245*  258
Greenhouse gas emissions -
on-site (million tonnes CO2 equivalent)
 13.4*   14.1*   15.3
Greenhouse gas emissions -
total (million tonnes CO2 equivalent)1
 25.3  26.8*  28.3
Freshwater consumption
(million litres)
 378*  370*  391
Land disturbed (hectares)  1,068  1,083  1,112
Land rehabilitated (hectares)  363  376  401
Waste generation - mineral
 (million tonnes)
 1,790  1,752*  1,871
Waste generation - non mineral
 (thousand tonnes)
 255  307*  321
Economic      
Gross sales revenue (US$ billion)  14.5  20.7  25.4
Underlying earnings (US$ billion)   2.3  5.0   7.3
Cash flow from operations
 (US$ billion)
 4.5  8.3  11.2
Dividends paid to shareholders
 (US$ billion)3
 0.9  1.1  2.6
Capital expenditure (US$ billion)  2.2  2.5  3.9
Wages and salaries paid
 (US$ billion)4
 2.1  2.3  2.7
Taxes and royalties paid
 (US$ billion)4
 1.5  3.1  4.2
Total value added (US$ billion)  7.6  12.7  14.4
 Production by principal commodities      
 Alumina ('000 tonnes)   2,231  2,963  3,247
 Aluminium ('000 tonnes)   837  854  845
 Bauxite ('000 tonnes)  12,828  15,474  16,139
 Borates ('000 tonnes)  565  560  553
 Coal ('000 tonnes)  157,437  153,638  162,328
 Copper - mined; refined
 ('000 tonnes)
 753; 333  784; 315  803; 299
 Diamonds - mined
 ('000 carats)
 25,202 35,635   35,162
 Gold - mined; refined
 ('000 ozs)
 1,552; 300  1,726; 369  1,003; 462
 Iron ore ('000 tonnes)  107,757  124,494  132,780
 Lead ('000 tonnes)  25.1  11.9  11.9
 Molybdenum ('000 tonnes)  6.8  15.6  16.8
 Pig iron ('000 tonnes)  -  5   53
 Salt ('000 tonnes)  4,792  5,507  5,405
 Silver - mined; refined
 ('000 ozs)
 14,830; 3,344  14,926; 3,538  13,968; 4,152
  Talc ('000 tonnes)  1,443  1,364  1,392
 Titanium dioxide feedstock
 ('000 tonnes)
 1,192  1,312  1,415
 Uranium (tonnes U3O8)  5,974   6,582  5,698
 Zinc - mined ('000 tonnes)  73.8   37.2  33.4

  * Numbers corrected from those originally published following data verification.
1 Total greenhouse gas emissions include on-site emissions and emissions from net electricity and steam purchases.
2 Equivalent to Total economic contribution pie chart on page 21.
3 Includes special dividend in 2006 of US$ 1.5 billion.
4 Includes our share of equity accounted units.

Investor seminar - November 2007

Tom Albanese, chief executive and Guy Elliott, chief financial officer hosted a Rio Tinto presentation on Monday 26 November 2007

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