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Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian mining company founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mining complex on the Rio Tinto river in Spain. It operates today as a dual-listed company, Rio Tinto plc in London and Rio Tinto Limited in Australia, run as a single unified business, and is one of the largest mining companies in the world, a major global producer of iron ore, aluminum and copper alongside other minerals.

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A major mining company; classified in the atlas mining-industry.

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