RÍO TINTO

Ríotintoboth: rēˈō tēnˈtō, or Minas de Ríotintomēˈnäs dā, town (1990 pop. 5,934), Huelva prov., SW Spain, in the Sierra Morena Mts., in Andalusia. It is the center of the Río Tinto mining region, named for the river which crosses it. Known since Phoenician times, the area has copper deposits and some iron and manganese.

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books on: RIo Tinto  - 444 results

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1.
Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects
Book by Ronaldo Munck; Liverpool University Press, 2004
Subjects: Globalization--Economic Aspects, Labor Movement
...85 6. Australia and Beyond: Targeting Rio Tinto James Goodman 105 7. International...the energetic campaign against the mining transnational Rio Tinto. This campaign shows both the severe constraints and the...
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Creating a Better World: Interpreting Global Civil Society
Book by Rupert Taylor; Kumarian Press, 2004
Subjects: Civil Society, Globalization--Social Aspects, International Organization, Non-Governmental Organizations, Social Movements
...50 Years Is Enough and Jubilee 2000; the Rio Earth Sum- mit and the battle of Seattle...if somewhat mythi- cally) dated at the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. The parallel NGO Forum or alternative summit at Rio was certainly unparalleled in terms of...
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Economic Change and the National Question in Twentieth-Century Europe
Book by Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis, Jaroslav PÁtek; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Europe--Economic Conditions--20th Century, Nationalism--Economic Aspects--Europe--History--20th Century
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Economic Relations between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain, 1936-1945
Book by Christian Leitz; Clarendon Press, 1996
Subjects: Germany--Foreign Economic Relations--Spain, Germany--Politics And Government--1933-1945, Spain--Foreign Economic Relations--Germany, Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939
...clearly on Germanys main economic rival and main foreign investor in Spain, Britain. British mining companies, such as Rio Tinto and Orconera, controlled most of the important pyrite and iron ore mines in Spain. When these companies became the...
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Business and Human Rights: A Compilation of Documents
Book by Radu Mares; Martinus Nijhoff, 2004
Subjects: Human Rights, Industries--Self-Regulation, International Business Enterprises--Law And Legislation, International Business Enterprises--Social Aspects, Social Responsibility Of Business
...practices, Our standards 421 Rio Tinto The Way We Work, Our Statement...Procter Gamble Development Reebok Rio Tinto Royal Dutch/Shell Grou of Companies...Position Paper on Codes of Conduct, Rio Tintos Human Rights Guidance, and...
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journal articles on: RIo Tinto  - 91 results

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The International Law Exception to the Act of State Doctrine: Redressing Human Rights Abuses in Papua New Guinea
Journal article by Joshua Gregory Holt; Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 16, 2007
...Central District of California against Rio Tinto PLC, an international mining conglomerate...rights violations perpetrated by Rio Tinto through its strip mining operations...Tort Claims Act ("ATCA") in Sarei v. Rio Tinto PLC,2 alleging violations of customary...
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If I Had a Hammer: the Oecd Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as Another Tool to Protect Indigenous Rights to Land
Journal article by Heather Bowman; Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 15, 2006
...government10 formed a partnership with Rio Tinto to build the Panguna copper mine...land rights of native villages to Rio Tinto in exchange for a nineteen percent...brought by the indigenous people,16 Rio Tinto failed to exercise proper environmental...
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Why Private Remedies for Environmental Torts under the Alien Tort Statute Should Not Be Constrained by the Judicially Created Doctrines of Jus Cogens and Exhaustion
Journal article by Mark W. Wilson; Environmental Law, Vol. 39, 2009
Subjects: Alien Tort Statute, Exhaustion of administrative remedies--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, International business enterprises--Laws, regulations and rules, Judiciary Act of 1789, Jus cogens (International law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Liability for environmental damages--Laws, regulations and rules, Multinational corporations--Laws, regulations and rules
...2. Sarei v. Rio Tinto: Environmental Damage under Color...operating in Papua New Guinea, Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC, (9) has had some success in...environmental ATS case, Sarei v. Rio Tinto, to show how the Ninth Circuit is...
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2006 Ninth Circuit Environmental Review
Journal article by A. Danyel Stasch; Environmental Law, Vol. 37, 2007
Subjects: United States. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit--Surveys
...Coalition v. Rumsfeld, 464 F.3d 1083 (9th Cir. 2006) Gros Ventre Tribe v. United States, 469 F.3d 801 (9th Cir. 2006) Sarei v. Rio Tinto, PLC., 456 F.3d 1069 (9th Cir. 2006) CAROLINE A. KINCAID Oregon Natural Resources Council v. Allen, 476 F.3d 1031 (9th...
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Leadership and Aboriginal Reconciliation
Journal article by Andrew K. Leigh; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 37, 2002
Subjects: Australia--Social aspects, Australian aborigines--Civil rights, Social policy--Australia
...reconciliation. Among mining companies, Rio Tinto has placed most energy into forging...relationships with Aboriginal people (see Rio Tinto 2001). As Paul Wand, chair of Rio...Yet while companies such as Rio Tinto can make inroads towards reconciliation...
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magazine articles on: RIo Tinto  - 140 results

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Is Aluminium the New Gold?
Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, April 2008
Subjects: Cameroon--Economic aspects, Mineral industry--Management, Mining industry--Management, Rio Tinto Co.--Management
...discouraging investment in new power plants. Rio Tinto aims to expand its aluminium smelter...output. Now, however, mining giant Rio Tinto has put together a proposal that...by Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto in November last year and the new...
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Worldaware Business Awards: Award Goes to South African Firm for the First Time
Magazine article; African Business, March 1994
Subjects: Building stone, Ceramics, Construction industry--Achievements and awards, Dam construction, Glass products, Mining industry--Achievements and awards, Palabora Mining Company Ltd.--Achievements and awards, Rio Tinto Zimbabwe--Achievements and awards
...World-aware Business Awards include Rio Tinto Zimbabwe, South Africas Palabora...scheme Another RTZ subsidiary, Rio Tinto Zimbabwe, has won the Sustainable Development Award. Rio Tinto Zimbabwe created a dam to irrigate...
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Mining Giants Go on Email
Magazine article; African Business, November 2000
Subjects: Anglo American Industrial Corporation Ltd.--Contracts, Billiton PLC--Contracts, Business to business market--Contracts, Business-to-business market--Contracts, Diversified companies, Glen-Core Ltd.--Contracts, Metal industries--Logistics, Metal industry--Logistics, Metals (Materials), Mining industry--Logistics, Ores, Rio Tinto PLC--Contracts
...trade in commodities and create forward markets over the Internet. London-listed mining houses Billiton, Anglo American, Rio Tinto and privately held commodity trader Glen-core announced a signing in Johannesburg of a memorandum of understanding to...
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China's Bid to Buy the West: Backed by Huge Foreign-Exchange Reserves, an Investment Fund Operated by the Beijing Government Plans to Buy Western Companies, Essentially Nationalizing Western Industry
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 24, January 7, 2008
Subjects: Alcan Inc.--Political activity, Aluminum industry--Political activity, Aluminum industry--Political aspects, Copper industry--Political activity, Copper industry--Political aspects, Diamond mining--Political aspects, Foreign exchange reserves--Political aspects
...Behreandt ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Rio Tinto is one of the largest, Western-based...than $38 billion. Clearly, UK-based Rio Tinto is a company of immense strategic...Billiton Ltd., bid $137 billion for Rio Tinto, an offer the UK company rejected...
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Mining Industry Offers Rich Vein for Mergers
Magazine article by Gordon Platt; Global Finance, Vol. 22, January 2008
Subjects: Acquisitions & mergers, International, Mining industry
...tender offer to merge with UK-based Rio Tinto in a stock-swap transaction for which...number-three mining groups came as Rio Tinto itself was wrapping up its acquisition...it expects BHP Billitons bid for Rio Tinto to spur further consolidation in...
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newspaper articles on: RIo Tinto  - 2386 results

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Rio Tinto Deal with Chinalco Collapses
Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), June 6, 2009
Subjects: Mineral industry, Mining industry, Rio Tinto Ltd.
Rio Tinto Deal with Chinalco Collapses. GLADSTONE...the Yarwun phase two expansion has faded. Rio Tinto Limited yesterday announced it would not...issue to raise about US$15.2billion - 21 new Rio Tinto Limited shares were offered for every 40...
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Rio Tinto Profits Down Pounds 102m as Prices for Coal and Iron Ore Tumble
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 25, 2000
Rio Tinto Profits Down Pounds 102m as Prices for Coal...pounds 102 million off profits last year at Rio Tinto, one of the worlds biggest mining firms...increases from acquisitions and expansions. Rio Tinto is looking for growth in 2000 with the recovery...
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BHP Billiton Offer Still Short, Says Rio Tinto; MINING
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 14, 2008
Subjects: Mineral industry, Mining industry
...Billiton Offer Still Short, Says Rio Tinto; MINING. A gap still exists between...as being "several ballparks away". Rio Tinto, the worlds third-biggest mining...acquired a nine per cent stake in Rio Tinto for about pounds 7.13 billion on...
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Rio Tinto Ditches Chinalco in Favour of Share Issue
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 5, 2009
Subjects: Mineral industry--Securities, Mining industry--Securities, Stock offerings
Rio Tinto Ditches Chinalco in Favour of Share Issue. Byline: Robert Lea RIO TINTO was forced into a giveaway corporate fundraising...considerably." In tandem with the rights issue, Rio Tinto also announced a tie-up with the its great...
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Rio Tinto Quizzed over Unveiling of Alcan Deal
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 16, 2007
Subjects: Alcan Inc.--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Aluminum industry--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Mineral industry--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Mining industry--Mergers, acquisitions and divestments
Rio Tinto Quizzed over Unveiling of Alcan Deal. MINER Rio Tinto has been questioned by the Australian Stock...takeover of Canadian aluminium producer Alcan. Rio Tinto admitted it had been advised on Thursday...
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encyclopedia articles on: RIo Tinto  - 4 results

 
 
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RÍo Tinto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RIO TINTO Riotinto both: re o ten to, or Minas de Riotinto me nas da, town (1990...SW Spain, in the Sierra Morena Mts., in Andalusia. It is the center of the Rio Tinto mining region, named for the river which crosses it. Known since Phoenician...
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Minas De RÍotinto
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MINAS DE RIOTINTO Spain: see Rio Tinto . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Huelva
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...city (1990 pop. 141,002), capital of Huelva prov., SW Spain, in Andalusia, on the Odiel River above its junction with the Rio Tinto. A busy port with copper, sulfur, and cork exports, it also has fishing, shipbuilding, oil refining, and summer resort...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the rich mineral resources of the Cantabrian Mts. (iron, coal, and zinc) are exploited. Copper is mined extensively at Rio Tinto ; other mineral resources include lead, uranium, silver, tin, and mercury. Petroleum is found near Burgos. Fishing, notably...


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