Ranger Uranium Mine
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The Ranger Uranium Mine was a uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia. The site is surrounded by, but separate from Kakadu National Park, 230 km east of Darwin. The orebody was discovered
Ranger mill complex
Ranger Pit 3, Northern Territory, Australia: Uranium mineralised Cahill Formation as visible in the pit is unconformably overlain by Kombolgie Sandstone forming the mountains in the background
Rio Tinto (corporation)
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Rio Tinto Group is a British–Australian multinational mining company headquartered in London, England, and Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1873 when a group of British investors purchased a mi
Ranger Uranium Mine
…January 2021. Mining activities had ceased in 2012. It was owned and operated by Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), a public company 86.33% owned by Rio Tinto Group, the remainder held by the public. Uranium mined at Ranger was sold for use in nuclear power stations in Japan, South Korea, China, UK, France, Germany…
Rio Tinto headquarters in Melbourne, Australia
The company's name comes from the Río Tinto in south-western Spain.
Hugh Matheson led the purchase of the Rio Tinto mines from Spain, and was the company's first president.
The open-pit Corta Atalaya mine was part of Rio Tinto's original operations in Spain.