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Rio Tinto Group is a diversified mining and metals companies, headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Melbourne, Australia, operating under a dual-listed structure on the London Stock Exchange, Australian Securities Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (ticker RIO). While historically focused on iron ore, aluminum, copper and minerals, Rio Tinto has expanded into critical minerals and is actively evaluating a strategic move into rare earth elements amid global supply concerns. The company operates the Rio Tinto Fer et Titane metallurgical complex at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada, and has explored rare earth and scandium recovery from titanium dioxide processing streams. Through its scale, downstream processing capability and growing critical minerals portfolio, Rio Tinto is positioned as a major potential Western supplier of rare earths and other strategic materials for the energy transition.
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