In August – September 1905, he founded the Zinc Corporation ( later, following various mergers, to become part of the Rio Tinto Group ) with William Baillieu and others, with the intention to purchase and treat the zinc rich-tailings in Broken Hill, New South Wales.

They used reverse overshot water-wheels for dewatering their deep mines such as those at Rio Tinto.

These were used extensively in the copper mines at Rio Tinto in Spain, where one sequence comprised 16 such wheels arranged in pairs, and lifting water about.

London is known as the capital of global " mining houses " such as Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, and Anglo American PLC.

* March 29 – The Rio Tinto Company is formed in Spain, following the February 17 purchase of the Rio Tinto mine from the Spanish government by a British investment group.

Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assets for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio ( 53 % and operator since 2000 ) and three Japanese steel companies Mitsui Iron Ore Development P / L ( 33 %), Nippon Steel Australia P / L ( 10. 5 %) and Sumitomo Metal Australia P / L ( 3. 5 %).

In 2004, Rio Tinto announced that Robe and Hamersley would start merging operations under the new Pilbara Iron entity.

Category: Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Mining corporation Rio Tinto Group started production at its Fort Dauphin mine in January 2009, following several years of infrastructure preparation.

Similar deposits were mined near Rio Tinto in Spain and Mount Morgan in Australia.

Rio Tinto Alcan operates Iceland's first aluminium smelter ( plant name: ISAL ), in Straumsvík, near the town of Hafnarfjörður.

The Douro railway line ( in Portuguese: Linha do Douro ) was completed in 1887 ; it connects Porto, Rio Tinto, Ermesinde, Valongo, Paredes, Penafiel, Livração, Marco de Canaveses, Régua, Tua and Pocinho.

* Energy Resources of Australia, a mining company owned by the Rio Tinto Group

It all began courtesy of two Scots, Alexander Mackay and Robert Russell Ross, overseas British workers at the Rio Tinto mines, and the club was originally named Huelva Recreation Club.

ERA is majority owned by Rio Tinto, which holds 68. 4 per cent of ERA shares.

It is also the location of the soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium, which hosts Real Salt Lake home games, and opened on October 8, 2008.

The famous Rio Tinto mines have been worked since before 1000 BC, and were the major source of copper for the Roman Empire.

** One of the biggest music festivals in the world begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Rock in Rio, had a public of 1. 5 million people at all, including artists like Iron Maiden, Nina Hagen, The B52's, Go Go's, Queen, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, AC / DC, and many more.

* Rock in Rio ( album ), a 2001 live album recorded in Brazil by the rock group Iron Maiden

Visions of the Beast was released by Iron Maiden on 2 June 2003 and contains every promotional video through 2001's Rock in Rio.

Rio Moji-Guaçu river by the city of Mogi-Guaçu, with famous " Iron Bridge " or " Red Bridge ".

Rock in Rio is a double live DVD set ( also available on VHS & UMD ) by the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden.

Besides showing the entire performance of the Rock in Rio show, the second disc also includes three special features with interviews with band members, a short documentary on the day in the life of Iron Maiden, and photos by official photographer, Ross Halfin.

The locomotives were adopted by a broad spectrum of mountain railroads, including the Norfolk & Western, Southern, Virginian, Great Northern, Clinchfield, Denver & Rio Grande, Reading, Western Maryland, Missouri Pacific, Frisco, and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.

: Abrams, Adell, Algoma, Appleton, Ashippun, Baileys Harbor, Beaver Dam, Berlin, Black Creek, Brandon, Brillion, Brownsville, Brussels, Burnett, Butte des Morts, Cambria, Campbellsport, Cascade, Casco, Cedar Grove, Chilton, Cleveland, Clyman, Coleman, Collins, Columbus, Combined Locks, Dale, Dalton, Darboy De Pere, Denmark, Doylestown, Eden, Egg Harbor, Eldorado, Elkhart Lake, Ellison Bay, Ephraim, Eureka, Fairwater, Fall River, Fish Creek, Fond du Lac, Forest Junction, Forestville, Fort Atkinson, Fox Lake, Francis Creek, Freedom, Fremont, Friesland, Gillett, Glenbeulah, Green Bay, Green Lake, Greenbush, Greenleaf, Greenville, Hilbert, Hingham, Horicon, Hortonville, Hustisford, Iron Ridge, Ixonia, Jefferson, Johnson Creek, Juneau, Kaukauna, Kellnersville, Kewaunee, Kiel, Kimberly, Kingston, Kohler, Krakow, Lake Mills, Larsen, Lebanon, Lena, Little Chute, Little Suamico, Lomira, Lowell, Luxemburg, Malone, Manawa, Manitowoc, Maplewood, Maribel, Markesan, Marquette, Mayville, Menasha, Mishicot, Mount Calvary, Neenah, Neosho, Neshkoro, New Franken, New Holstein, New London, Newton, Nichols, Oakfield, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Ogdensburg, Omro, Oneida, Oostburg, Oshkosh, Pickett, Pine River, Plymouth, Potter, Pound, Poy Sippi, Princeton, Pulaski, Randolph, Random Lake, Readfield, Redgranite, Reedsville, Reeseville, Rio, Ripon, Rosendale, Rubicon, St.

On 12 October 1978, Pendennis Castle and two former NSW Railways passenger cars were named Rio Fe (" River of Iron ") by Lady Turner, wife of Sir Mark Turner, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation, one of the major investors in Hamersley Iron.

* Rio Tinto Iron Ore website

During a 1924 – 25 expedition, Alexander H. Rice, Jr. of Harvard University traveled up the Orinoco, traversed the Casiquiare canal, and descended the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus.

* C. l. microdon: Lower Rio Grande coyote – southern Texas and northern Tamaulipas

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

However dragoons had existed in Portugal since at least the early 18th century and, in 1719, units of this type of cavalry were sent to Brazil, initially to escort shipments of gold and diamonds and to guard the Viceroy who resided in Rio de Janeiro ( 1st Cavalry Regiment – Vice-Roy Guard Squadron ).

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

* Western-most point ( mainland ) – the point at which the border with Guinea-Bissau enters the Rio Compony estuary

* 2000 – Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus # 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.

* 1967 – Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter

* 1888 – The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.

* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

* 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

* 1993 – Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver

On November 29, 2011, owner Wayne Weaver announced the firing of head coach Jack Del Rio, whose record had been 3 – 8 through the first twelve weeks of the season and 68 – 71 over his nine year tenure.

* 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.

* 1846 – Mexican – American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.

* 1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

* 1978 – Rio Ferdinand, English footballer

* 1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.

* Bandleader and percussionist Jack Del Rio ( 1964 – 1965 )

* 1835 – Ragamuffin rebels capture Porto Alegre, then capital of the Brazilian imperial province of Rio Grande do Sul, triggering the start of ten-year-long Farroupilha Revolution.

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.