Rio Tinto signs a production sharing agreement with Freeport McMoRan thus playing a pivotal role expanding the mine in West Papua. Rio Tinto’s investment provides the financial capacity to expand production at the mine from the initial Ertzberg open pit to the...
A large additional copper deposit is discovered deep underground, adjacent to an older mine near Superior, Arizona. Since 2004, indigenous and environmental groups have been resisting plans to construct a large copper mine. Not only would it destroy up to 6,000...
Flambeau Mining Company starts operations at the Flambeau Mine in Wisconsin, producing 181,000 tons of copper between 1993 and 1997, as well as gold and silver. The company is a subsidiary of Kennecott Minerals which in turn is wholly owned by Rio Tinto. When the open...
As tensions in Bougainville increase due to injustices related to the Panguna mine, the mine is forcibly shut down and eventually abandoned in 1989. With the Bougainville population bearing all the costs of environmental damage and health risks without getting any of...
