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Rio Tinto: Mining
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The Rio Tinto is a foul, oozing trickle of a river that muddles its way through mining country in southwestern Spain, has the pH of gastric juice, and is awash with pollution and heavy metals. The water ranges from a brilliant blood red to rusty wine that, in concert with the yellow, orange, and green rinds of color flanking the banks, make for a truly psychedelic and otherworldly scene.
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• Rio Tinto is continuing with the sale process for the Packaging business and is exploring options for the divestment of Engineered Products as part of the overall $15 billion asset divestment target. $10 billion of this total is targeted for 2008.
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Wherever Rio Tinto operates, the health and safety of its employees is the first priority. The Group seeks to contribute to sustainable development. It works as closely as possible with host countries and communities, respecting their laws and customs and ensuring a fair share of benefits and opportunities.
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This acquisition from Rio Tinto would enhance IRC's commodity exposure by adding four gold, four diamond, two uranium, three copper and three nickel royalties to IRC's portfolio. The interests ... provide IRC with additional exposure to zinc, lead, silver, cobalt, and molybdenum. Eight of the royalties are located on properties in Canada, five are in Australia, two are in the United States, and one is in Spain. The majority of the properties are expected to have strong exploration potential on lands covered by the royalties being purchased.
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This journal article examines the major sources of pollution in the Rio Tinto estuary of southern Spain. The introduction includes a historical perspective of the region, description of the Rio Tinto system, and results of previous studies. The authors describe a database of surface sediment samples, take a look at the distribution of pollutant species in surface sediments, and analyze the recent influence of the local phosphate industry including the rates of sediment accumulation. The study shows that pollution extended back (about 5000 years) well before modern day large-scale mining. The article includes a map of the Rio Tinto system, illustrations of hydrologic and tidal data, chemical analyses of surface sediment samples, and plots of the downstream distribution of selected pollutants.
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With Michigan DEQ approval of its project, Rio Tinto is now beginning to express an interest, publicly, in its other projects on the Yellow Dog Plains. Clayton recently told the Sydney Morning Herald: "At Eagle we are ... focused on six further adjacent prospects, which may give us the potential to extend the mine life beyond 30 years at its current scheduled production rate.”
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