Bauxite Residue Storage using Sea Water Neutralisation
Sea water has been used, to neutralise bauxite residue at the Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) refinery for more than 30...
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Alcoa’s rehabilitation welcomes another 400,000 plants
Alcoa Australia is set to meet sustainability targets at its two bauxite mines in the Peel and South West regions...
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Rio Tinto Here for Gladstone
The Rio Tinto Here for Gladstone programme is our flagship community investment programme for the region. It is solely focussed...
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Turtle management at Weipa Operations
Feral animals are a well-known environmental problem in Australia and impact the environment in many ways. The predation of turtle...
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BSL partners with community to care for clownfish
Following the release of the ‘Finding Nemo’ film in 2003, clownfish popularity has increased significantly, with more than one million...
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Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)
Rio Tinto is now offering independently certified, responsibly produced aluminium from its smelters in Australia and New Zealand that predominantly...
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Aluminium and Fire
Cladding fires of recent times indicate that wrong assumptions about risk may have been made. Cladding fires of recent times...
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BSL’s EBITS Centre
The EQIP Business, Industry and Tourism Skills Centre (EBITS) Centre is a partnership between Education Queensland and Boyne Smelters Limited,...
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Brisbane Bauxite Integrated Operations Centre (BIOC)
In August 2019, the switch was flicked on Rio Tinto’s Brisbane-based Bauxite Integrated Operations Centre (BIOC), transforming how the Aluminium...
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The battle against the Yellow Crazy Ant
The ABC Radio Country Hour programme visited Gove in September 2019 to chat to Rehabilitation Specialist Faye Lawton on the...
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Red mud dam research (UQ partnership)
Our Australian alumina refineries are part of a potentially game-changing research partnership looking at technologies that could turn bauxite residue,...
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Rio Tinto and UGL Limited Partner $12,400 to Project We Care
In July 2019, Rio Tinto and UGL Limited donated $12,400 towards mental health and suicide prevention in the Gladstone region,...
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Yarwun maintenance technician takes out top spot
Congratulations to Yarwun maintenance technician Richard O’Brien, who was awarded the ‘Harry Hauenschild Apprentice of the Year’ (Central Queensland) at...
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Allison’s Gift bystander training
Rio Tinto has reinforced its commitment to promoting safe, healthy and respectful relationships in the communities where it operates with...
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BSL can recycling
In June 2019, representatives from Rio Tinto and BSL took part in Australia’s first Circular Economy (CE) Lab—a Queensland Government...
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