The Australian part of the Consolidated Zinc Corporation – which would later merge with Rio Tinto – develops a bauxite deposit with the Commonwealth Aluminium Corporation Pty. Limited, known as Comalco, at Weipa, Queensland. This is enabled by the 1957...
The company sells two-thirds of the Rio Tinto mine in Spain and uses the proceeds to finance new exploration companies in Africa, Australia and Canada. This leads to the establishment of major uranium mines in Canada as well as the Mary Kathleen mine in Australia....
While Spain is under the fascist rule of Franco, striking miners at the Rio Tinto mines are kept in check by Franco’s troops. At the 1937 AGM, the then chairman Geddes states that “since the mining region was occupied by General Franco’s forces, there have been no...
Rio Tinto expands beyond Spain, starting with the Copper Belt in what is now Zambia but was then called Northern Rhodesia after Cecil Rhodes, an emblem of white supremacy and colonialism who actively reinforces apartheid to exploit Black Africans in his mining...
Auckland Geddes becomes chairman of Rio Tinto, having previously served in the second Anglo-Boer war and as director of recruitment in the War Office during the First World War as well as Minister of Reconstruction and President of the Trade Board in the post-war...
