Jacynthe Côté, chief executive of
Rio Tinto Alcan said: «I am saddened by the closure of Lynemouth Smelter but we have reached this decision only after a thorough strategic review of the plant and a fair and transparent consultation process.
And in Rio
Tinto Alcan Inc. v. Carrier Sekani Tribal Council, 2010 SCC 43, the Supreme Court of Canada found that «the duty to consult extends to «strategic, higher level decisions» that may have an impact on Aboriginal claims and rights»; however, the court concluded then, «We leave for another day the question of whether government conduct includes legislative action... ``
It is expected that the New Rio
Tinto plc Shares will commence trading fully paid on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities on Thursday, 2 July 2009.
Two Perth - based contractors have secured new work, with Decmil Group locking in a $ NZ24.3 million ($ 22.7 million) contract for two schools in New Zealand, while NRW Holdings will undertake work for Rio
Tinto in the Pilbara.
Former Rio
Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh will take up the position of Australia Council of the Arts (ACA) chair, as of July, after almost two years on the board.
SUSPENSION of work on the Canadian Diavik diamond project by Rio
Tinto Limited will set back mine commissioning a further year.
• During the quarter, Rio
Tinto announced further investments to advance the expansion of its industry leading Pilbara iron ore business to 353 million tonnes per annum (Mt / a) and to progress further the Simandou iron ore project in Guinea.
The latest Rio
Tinto share price is shown below, along with other market data.
Mr Randall holds a Bachelor of Applied Chemistry Degree and has more than 41 years» of extensive experience in corporate, management and marketing in the resource sector, including more than 20 years with the Rio
Tinto group of companies.
However, by using a TAR 2.0 process that employs Continuous Active Learning, the transparency issue is minimized or even eliminated, as U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck acknowledged in his recent decision in Rio
Tinto PLC v. Vale SA: «If the TAR methodology uses «continuous active learning»... the contents of the seed set is much less significant.»
The purchase price paid by Rio
Tinto on completion was $ 1.7 billion.
Rio
Tinto said today that it will be focussing the majority of its investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology on the Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) project, a proposed new hydrogen - powered electricity facility that will capture and store most of its carbon related emissions to produce clean electricity.
Rio
Tinto expects China's stimulus packages to take effect progressively after the Chinese leadership change and has therefore lowered its estimates for Chinese GDP growth this year to just below eight per cent.
Guests can enjoy one complimentary round per person, per day at
El Tinto Golf Course when staying now until April 30, 2018.
Los Angeles Football Club made it two wins in two games to begin their history, defeating Real Salt Lake 5 - 1 at Rio
Tinto Stadium.
Bonus features on the Blu - ray release include a half - hour documentary on City of Women; interview with production designer Dante Ferretti; interview with filmmaker
Tinto Brass; original Italian trailer; and 2015 re-release trailer.
Together with Sam Walsh, chief executive Rio
Tinto Iron Ore and chief executive Australia, who was appointed by the boards as an executive director since the last AGMs, Ann Godbehere and Robert Brown will offer themselves for election to the boards at the 2010 AGMs.
The billionaire Rinehart and Wright families have scored a multi-million dollar High Court win against mining giant Rio
Tinto over iron ore royalties derived from the Pilbara.
«It does just underline the unintended consequences of trade sanctions,» Rio
Tinto Chairman Simon Thompson said at the briefing.
Nibbling on juicy marinated olives, tortillas and Manchego cheese while sipping a
vino tinto from Rioja by the bar also happens to be the best way to mingle with locals and practice your Spanish language skills!
Chris Lynch joined the Rio
Tinto boards as a non-executive director in September 2011.
According to Jean - Marc Lieberherr, Chief Commercial Officer for Rio
Tinto Diamonds, «These rare Argyle diamonds provide the escalating intrinsic value of an investment and are destined for the exclusive echelons of the world's most sophisticated collectors.»
The protestors, from a group called Apache Stronghold, oppose a land swap between the federal government and a subsidiary of the giant Rio
Tinto mining company that they say threatens Oak Flat, a part of Tonto National Forest that they consider sacred.
Rio
Tinto also operates exploration activities, research and development centres, port and rail facilities to support various businesses, technical and sales service centres, and substantial hydroelectric power facilities in British Columbia and Quebec.
This is an opportunity for us to promote human rights in the many countries where Rio
Tinto operates as well as in the global mining and metals industry,» he added.
In the following decades, similar extremophilic microorganisms have also discovered around the globe in some of the harshest terrestrial environments imaginable, from the boiling geysers of the Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to the highly alkaline, acidic, and toxic waters of the Rio
Tinto river in southwestern Spain to the Mono Lake in California, just to name a few.
The multicolored tropical landscapes of the Caribbean are the perfect scenario for El
Tinto golf course rising in the outstanding natural environments of Cancun Country Club, an exclusive residential complex in Cancun, unique for its organic design with beautiful lakes and the fully equipped Clubhouse with world - class services.
Interestingly, although the case comes just less than a year after U.S. Judge Peck's latest opinion on predictive coding in Rio
Tinto Plc v. Vale S.A., it provides no reference to that ruling.
CPA had scored another coup a few days earlier with news it had hired Rio
Tinto managing attorney Leah Cooper, who previously had outsourced millions of dollars of legal work from the mining giant.
The success of the Rio
Tinto agreement in the Northern Territory demonstrates the way in which a flexible system may be shaped to benefit all parties.
The IPA's 70th birthday party last year was a love - in for the nation's most powerful climate deniers; Murdoch, Pell, Bolt, Rinehart, Abbott, all co-ordinated by IPA executive director (and former Rio
Tinto employee) John Roskam.
Corporate law firm Gilbert + Tobin has recruited former Rio
Tinto Australia managing director Philip Edmands as a new Perth - based partner.
I am most grateful to Yves for committing to serve his full term during an important transition period for Rio
Tinto following the Alcan acquisition.
With EMR Capital taking the reins at Kestrel - another former Rio
Tinto coal mine - surely BHP will try again to offload its adjacent Gregory Crinum mines.
Companies reporting today include ■ Rio
Tinto ■ Telstra ■ ASX ■ APN ■ Transurban ■ Goodman Group ■ Mirvac ■ Paladin Energy.
As chief executive, Sam Walsh is on a standard Rio
Tinto Ltd contract, which includes a standard 12 - month notice period.
Rio
Tinto Copper chief executive Andrew Harding said «This agreement means we are on track to bring the first phase of the world - class Oyu Tolgoi mine into production in the first half of 2013.
La Granja in Peru has targeted mineralisation of 4 to 8 billion tonnes at a copper equivalent grade of 0.5 per cent (a non-JORC compliant Rio
Tinto estimate).
«The stuff is just teeming with life,» Squyres said of Rio
Tinto water.
The Oyu Tolgoi Underground Mine Development and Financing plan agreed earlier this year between the government of Mongolia, and Rio
Tinto subsidiary Turquoise Hill Resources.
Italian
director Tinto Brass mounted this epic fail of a Roman historical drama starring Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren.
At one stage there was a very real prospect of Rio
Tinto halting shipments of bauxite to Rusal's Aughinish refinery in Ireland, which in turn could have caused several European aluminum smelters to close.