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Rio Tinto Aluminium (Formerly known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan
Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium corporation when Rio Tinto Group Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc....
 after Rio's takeover of Alcan
Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium corporation when Rio Tinto Group Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc....
. It was the world's eighth largest aluminium
Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al; its atomic number is 13....
 company. It mines and manufactures bauxite
Bauxite

Bauxite is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite ?-AlO, and diaspore a-AlO, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2....
, alumina and primary aluminium.

Rio Tinto Aluminium is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. It is the third-largest coal mining company in the world as of late 2008....
 and provides about 20% of Australia's
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 total production of bauxite, 8% of its alumina and 24% of its primary aluminium.

In 2002, Rio Tinto Aluminium earned US$256 million for its shareholder Rio Tinto.

RTA owns the Weipa
Weipa, Queensland

Weipa is the largest town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It is sometimes considered to be the 'Capital of Cape York' and is a mining town of over 3,000 people that exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast....
 Bauxite mine, Yarwun Alumina Refinery,






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Rio Tinto Aluminium (Formerly known as Comalco) is now known as Rio Tinto Alcan
Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium corporation when Rio Tinto Group Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc....
 after Rio's takeover of Alcan
Alcan

Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. became the world's largest Aluminium corporation when Rio Tinto Group Canadian subsidiary, Rio Tinto Canada Holding Inc., completed a friendly acquisition of Canadian company Alcan Inc....
. It was the world's eighth largest aluminium
Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al; its atomic number is 13....
 company. It mines and manufactures bauxite
Bauxite

Bauxite is the most important aluminium ore. It consists largely of the minerals gibbsite Al3, boehmite ?-AlO, and diaspore a-AlO, together with the iron oxides goethite and hematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase TiO2....
, alumina and primary aluminium.

Rio Tinto Aluminium is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto is a multinational mining and resources group founded originally in 1873. It is the third-largest coal mining company in the world as of late 2008....
 and provides about 20% of Australia's
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
 total production of bauxite, 8% of its alumina and 24% of its primary aluminium.

In 2002, Rio Tinto Aluminium earned US$256 million for its shareholder Rio Tinto.

RTA owns the Weipa
Weipa, Queensland

Weipa is the largest town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It is sometimes considered to be the 'Capital of Cape York' and is a mining town of over 3,000 people that exists because of the enormous bauxite deposits along the coast....
 Bauxite mine, Yarwun Alumina Refinery, and Bell Bay aluminium smelter
Bell Bay aluminium smelter

The Bell Bay aluminium smelter is located on the Tamar River at Bell Bay, Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia. The smelter has a production capacity of 178,000 tonnes of aluminium per year...
.

It also has interests (manages or joint-venture) in other aluminium related businesses:

  • Boyne Smelters Ltd
    Boyne Island aluminium smelter

    The Boyne Island aluminium smelter is located on Boyne Island, Queensland,Queensland, Australia, approximately 20 km south of the port of Gladstone, Queensland....
     (aluminium smelter)
  • New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (aluminium smelter)
  • Queensland Alumina Limited
    Queensland Alumina Limited

    Queensland Alumina Limited is the one of the largest alumina refinery by alumina production capacity in the world, located in Gladstone, Queensland, Australia....
     (alumina refinery)
  • Gladstone Power Station
    Gladstone Power Station, Queensland

    The Gladstone Power Station is Queensland largest power station, with six coal powered steam turbines generating a maximum of 1,680 Megawatt of electricity....
     (power station)
  • Anglesey Aluminium
    Anglesey Aluminium

    Anglesey Aluminium Metal Ltd. is a joint venture between Rio Tinto Group, Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation.Its aluminium smelter, located on the outskirts of Holyhead, is one of the largest employers in North Wales, with 540 staff members, and began to produce aluminium in 1971....
     (aluminium smelter)
  • Eurallumina SpA (alumina refinery)(Now sold)


See also

  • List of Alumina Refineries
    List of alumina refineries

    This is a list of alumina refinery in the world. The list is incomplete and missing some data....


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