Mind Map Description
Interactive Mind Map based on Mining Operations of Rio Tinto. Source: RioTinto.com.
Rio Tinto
The Rio Tinto Group is a diversified, British-Australian, multinational mining and resources group with headquarters in London and Melbourne. The company was founded in 1873, when a multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine complex on the Rio Tinto river, in Huelva, Spain from the Spanish government. Since then, the company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including
aluminum,
iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Although primarily focused on
extraction of minerals, Rio Tinto also has significant operations in refining,
particularly for refining bauxite and iron ore.
Source:
Wikipedia,
Rio Tinto Group.
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other
geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal)
seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron,
uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. Any
material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created
artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined. Mining in a wider
sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource.
Source:
Wikipedia, Mining.
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