Rio Tinto Group

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 aluminium, 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. The company has operations on six continents but is mainly concentrated in Australia and Canada, and owns gross assets valued at $81 billion through a complex web of wholly and partly owned subsidiaries. In 2007, the company was valued at $147 billion. Its head office in the United Kingdom is in the City of Westminster, London, while its Australian head office is in the City of Melbourne.

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Campaign Finance

$19,870 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

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covers through Q3 2012

  • Top Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for Rio Tinto Group Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$7,882,635 Spent
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covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Rio Tinto Group

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    Rio Tinto Group $6,047,635
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Natural Resources,
    • Environment & Superfund,
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Real Estate & Land Use,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Trade,
    • Taxes,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Defense,
    • Disaster & Emergency Planning
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1904 Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011
    S.409 Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009
    H.R.2509 Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2009
    H.R.4880 Copper Basin Jobs Act
    H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
    S.26 Elimination of Double Subsidies for the Hardrock MiningIndustry Act of 2011
    H.R.190 Protecting America's Workers Act
    H.R.699 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009
    S.796 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009
    S.153 Robert C. Byrd Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for Rio Tinto Group Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 10 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Rio Tinto Group" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

2 Enforcement Actions
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Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Bingham Magna Ditch Site Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation 2007 Copperton, Ut $5,000,000
Armour Road Npl Site; U.S. Borax, Inc U.S. Borax, Inc (+4 others) 2006 North Kansas City, ... $6,900,000
View all EPA violations data for Rio Tinto Group Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data