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The company also produces other metals and minerals as Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) comprises an integrated iron ore operations in the Pilbara, Western Australia. This situation precipitated the next, and perhaps most significant, merger in the company's history. Area Reports, International, Africa and the Middle East.

As of 2018, Rio Tinto's fleet of 80 autonomous Komatsu vehicles had moved over 1 billion tonnes of ore and waste material in Western Australia's Pilbara Region.Furthermore, in late 2017 Rio Tinto announced funding for their Koodaideri Mine in Western Australia, which Rio Tinto had dubbed their "intelligent mine.

As such, it is included in the widely quoted indices for each market: the On 1 February 2009, Rio Tinto management announced that they were in talks to receive a substantial Rio Tinto is believed to have pursued this combined asset and convertible bond sale to raise cash to satisfy its debt obligations, which required payments of $9.0 billion in October 2009 and $10.5 billion by the end of 2010.In March 2010, it was announced that Chinalco would invest $1.3 billion for a 44.65% stake in Rio Tinto's iron ore project in In November 2011, Rio joined with Chinalco to explore for copper resources in China's complex landscape, by setting up a new company, CRTX, 51% owned by Chinalco, and 49% by Rio Tinto.Under the company's dual-listed company structure, management powers of the Rio Tinto are consolidated in a single senior management group led by a board of directors and executive committee.

The company sold three major assets in 2008, raising about $3 billion in cash. REUTERS/Jason Reed The company said the Winu project team continues to work with local Nyangumarta and Martu traditional owners and regulators to obtain approvals needed for any future development, having drawn the ire of indigenous groups and the Australian government for blasting two ancient sacred Aboriginal caves in May. The company has won an award for ethical behaviour, the Worldaware Award for Sustainable Development in 1993.In 2009, Chinese authorities began investigating allegations against Rio Tinto. However, this changed in 1925, when Sir Perhaps most significant was the company's investment in copper mines in Like many major mining companies, Rio Tinto has historically grown through a series of mergers and acquisitions. The allegations center around the payment of a $10.5 million bribe to Rio Tinto launched an internal probe into the matter run by an independent law firm, and on 9 November 2016 announced it would report the findings to the Sam Walsh, the retiring CEO of the company, had 80% of his pay withheld while the investigation continue.Also in early November 2016, Former mining minister of Guinea, Mahmoud Thiam, claimed that the head of Rio Tinto's operation in Guinea offered him a bribe in 2010 in order to win back control of the Simandou mine, and that his offer was supported by senior members of the company.Rio Tinto is currently facing at least 4 class action suits in the US demanding damages over the corruption allegations in Guinea.

Rio Tinto owns a stake of around 50.8% stake in Turquoise Hill Resources, which in turn has a 66% interest in the copper-gold project. Although operating margin is significantly impacted by the market prices of the various commodities it produces, Rio Tinto has remained profitable over its recent history and consistently generated positive cash flows from operations.Rio Tinto's status as a mainly British-owned company, located in Spain and producing pyrites – an important material for military applications – created a complicated set of circumstances for the company's operation in the 1930s and 1940s. The Primary Metal business unit's operations consist of The aluminium division has interests in seven bauxite mines and deposits, six alumina refineries and six speciality alumina plants, 26 aluminium smelters, 13 Rio Tinto Energy is a business group of Rio Tinto dedicated to the mining and sale of Rio Tinto Diamonds operates three diamond mines: the The diamond business unit's most advanced exploration project is the Falcon Project in Saskatchewan, Canada, where Rio Tinto owns 60% of the project in a joint venture with Star Diamond Corp. Rio Tinto Minerals is a diverse business group with mining and processing interest in Titanium dioxide is mined at three locations in Canada, South Africa, and Madagascar, and refined at QIT-Fer et Titane's Canadian facilities.A media report in October 2013 revealed that the corporation plans to establish a fully automated railroad system for the transportation of iron ore across the Australian Rio Tinto is a global leader in the development of autonomous technologies for use in the mining sector.