Rio Tinto Zinc

In 1966 fifty percent of the capital stock of IRECO Chemicals was acquired by the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation, Ltd, a worldwide association of mining and related industrial enterprises such as ore processing, smelting, fabricating metals, and the production of chemicals. Since that time IRECO Chemicals has continued to grow and is today the world leader in the research, manufacture and marketing of slurry explosives with operations in important mining centers the world over... 

To facilitate the planned expansion of the opium trade, the British banking and merchant circle founded the Hongkong Shanghai Corporation in 1864. Almost simultaneously, the Matheson family founded Rio Tinto (now Rio Tinto Zinc), a tin mining venture in Spain which soon began shipping these ores as a method of payment for the opium. 

More specifically, it is an economic warfare operation. Two of its directors, J.H. Keswick — of the family that founded Jardine Matheson in 1828 to trade opium — and J.K. Swire — of the Swire family of hereditary opium traders — were senior officials in Britain s Ministry of Economic War during World War II. Another senior official of that Ministry is Sir Mark Turner, the chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc, the HongShang s partner in numerous fields, including gold operations. Turner is now a key figure in the Royal Institute of International Affairs, founded by Lord Milner, an earlier chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc. 

Sir Mark Turner. Chairman Rio Tinto Zinc, and Governing Council, the Royal Institute of International Affairs... 

The Rio Tinto Zinc Company was founded in 1873 by James Sutherland Matheson s nephew Hugh Matheson — taking the lineage of that firm all the way back to the days of George III and the American Revolution through then-Prime Minister Spencer... 

Hugh Matheson s successor at Rio Tinto Zinc in 1898 was J. J. Keswick, a partner in the opium-running Jardine Matheson firm, and a relative of the Mathesons by marriage through the Fraser family. 

The family history of the Keswicks intersects the story of the Russells, Villiers, and Braces through their most senior political operatives, notably Lord Milner. Milner, Cecil Rhodes s protege and one of racist John Ruskin s early trainees, bridged the gap between the establishment of the Rhodes Trust and the creation of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1920. Milner became a director of Rio Tinto Zinc in 1921, and served as chairman from 1922 until his death in 1925. 

To tie these strands back into the main line of the narcotics traffic Milner s hand-picked successor at Rio Tinto Zinc, whose original mines were in Spain, was Sir Auckland Geddes. Geddes, who mled until 1952, was a sponsor of Francisco Franco s fascist coup in Spain. (23) His nephew, Ford Irvine Geddes, was a... 

Brinco s board of directors today includes Mark Turner, the chairman of Rio Tinto Zinc, former member of the RIIA Council Edmund de Rothschild, the president of N. M. Rothschild and Sons and Sam Harris, the New York lawyer who is a director of Rio Tinto Zinc and whose law firm represents RTZ as well as the Kaplan Foundation, a funder of environmentalist groups. In court papers filed by the Westinghouse Corporation, Harris was named a conspirator in a plan to raise artificially the price of the world s uranium 800 percent during the 1970s. 

Although all the major multinational chemical giants have manufacturing facilities in the U.K., either directly or via subsidiary companies, we shall confine our attention here to those which are incorporated, or have their headquarters, in the U.K. They are Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Zeneca, Shell Chemicals, B.P. Chemicals, Croda International, Smith Kline Beecham, Glaxo, Fisons, Albright and Wilson, Laporte, Rio Tinto Zinc, and Unilever. Let us now briefly consider each of these in turn. 

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. 

April 1997 Bishop Zacharias Jimenez, the Bishop of the Diocese of Pagadian, wrote to the shareholders of the British mining company Rio Tinto Zinc asking them to ensure that Rio Unto Zinc refrained from engaging in mining in the Diocese of Pagadian. ... 

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. 

Acidic waters formed supposedly by the spontaneous oxidation of metal sulfides with oxygen flowed (and still flow) from mines into nearby lakes and rivers. The sediments of these waters rapidly turn the lakes and rivers black. In some cases, this phenomenon has affected the geographical names, e.g., the Rio Tinto (Black River) in Spain flows near a zinc mine exploited since Roman times (Rossi, 1990 Salley et al.,... 

Mining can generally be considered to be a short-term operation at most of the order of up to 100 years. Only in some unique areas such as the tin mines of Cornwall, the pyrite and copper mines of Rio Tinto in Spain or the lead, zinc and... 

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