About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the UK, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London and NYSE listed public company, and Rio Tinto Limited, is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Rio Tinto's business is finding, mining, and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminium, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt, talc) and iron ore. Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.

Our operating assets on the African continent include:

• Palabora Mining Company, embraces a copper mine, smelter and refinery complex in South Africa.
• Richards Bay Minerals, a mineral sands operation and smelter, also located in South Africa, is a 50 % joint venture.
• Rössing Uranium mine in Namibia.
• Murowa diamond mine in Zimbabwe.
• QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) in Madagascar.

Projects in Africa include:

• The Simandou Iron Ore project is located in Guinea, West Africa.
• Expansion and modernisation of the Edea smelter in Cameroon.
• A joint venture mine and alumina refinery project in Ghana.
• Coega aluminium smelter, a 720 thousand tonnes per year greenfield facility in South Africa.

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Information on Rio Tinto's operations around the world, including contact information and short profiles of the operations. (www.riotinto.com)