The Zinc Corporation is formed and ‘pioneers a new process to extract zinc from ore residues left after the extraction of silver and lead.’ It thus mines one of the world’s richest silver-lead-zinc deposits in Broken Hill, Australia. The company later evolves into the...
At the same time that Rio Tinto is becoming the biggest copper producer, protests increase, which culminated in “the year of the shots.” A peaceful demonstration of miners, farmers and other workers demanding better working conditions and a reduction of the polluting...
The Rio Tinto mines in southwestern Spain are bought by a British-European investor group consisting of Deutsche Bank and Matheson & Co. The new Rio Tinto Company transforms this ancient mining site into the world’s leading copper producer of the late 19th...
