RIO TINTO BORAX

Boron compounds us Borax Inc. Etibank Anzon NACC Joseph Storey William Blythe Rio Tinto Borax Europe Ltd Buddenheim Iberica... 

Chemische Fabrik Budenheim, Luzenac, Rio Tinto Borax (subsidiaries include Borax Europe Ltd.), Great Lakes Chemical Corp. and C-Tech (India). 

Rio Tinto Borax at Boron, California, is perhaps the single largest producer of borate chemicals in the world with a capacity of over 1.6 billion pounds per year. This company was formed from a merger of Luzenac (French) with Dampier (Australian) and US Borax (USA). Other borate-producing companies are American Borate (in Nevada) and Searles Valley Mineral (California). 

Boron is present in the earth s crust at a level of only three parts per million, but there are areas where it is concentrated as borate salts (salts of the oxidized form of elemental boron) in substantial volumes for mining. The United States and Turkey supply 90% of the global borate demand. Rio Tinto Minerals (RTM)/U.S. Borax, the largest borate producer, operates an open pit mine and refinery complex in the Mojave desert of California. The principal minerals in the deposit are tincal and kernite (Table 9.1). 

Rio Tinto Minerals-Borax Service Bulletin, Borates in Cellulosic Materials, Denver, Colorado. 

Rio Tinto Zinc. This is primarily a mining company and its chemical interests relate largely to the ores which it mines. It is therefore concerned with inorganic compounds of metals like copper, aluminium, iron, lead and zinc. The takeover of Borax Consolidated in 1968 took it into the area of boron compounds. 

Rio Tinto Minerals America (made up of Luzenac , Borax and Dampier Salt)... 

Albemarle entered into an agreement in 1999/2000 with Borax, part of Rio Tinto, to collaborate in the development of nonhalogen flame retardants, particularly borates. As a result Albemarle was able to offer zinc borate flame retardants for sale in Asia. More recently Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Borax Europe Ltd. transferred responsibility for the sale of those zinc borate grades intended for polymer formulation purposes to Luzenac. 

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