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Rio Tinto Minerals is the world's largest salt exporter. Salt is indispensable to a wide array of automotive, construction and electronic products, as well as to water treatment, food and health care.
Rio Tinto Minerals mines and produces salt at three operations in Western Australia. At Dampier and Port Hedland the salt is produced from seawater. At Lake MacLeod the saturated brine 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.
- Dampier Salt (Dampier, Lake MacLeod, Port Hedland), Australia (65.0 per cent)
For more information about Rio Tinto's salt operations, visit Our operations.
Unauthorised use of RIO TINTO trade-marks and names
- Recently Rio Tinto became aware of a third party using our well-known RIO TINTO trade-marks or corporate, trade, domain or sub-domain names without authorisation.
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Rio Tinto Alcan: an employer of choice for women
- Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) has been acknowledged as an employer of choice for women by Australia's Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA).
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