Rio Tinto
$59.8bn
Sam Walsh, CEO
Not surprising, another global mining and metal company takes the runner-up spot. Rio Tinto has operations on six continents and focuses mainly on the extraction of minerals (including aluminium, copper, diamonds, gold and industrial minerals), but also has significant operations in refining. They’ve been in business for 140 years, and like BHP, has an eye towards sustainable development.
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational metals and mining partnership with central command in London, United Kingdom and an administration office in Melbourne, Australia. The organization was established in 1873, when a multinational consortium of speculators bought a mine complex on the Rio Tinto waterway, in Huelva, Spain, from the Spanish government. From that point forward, the organization has become through a long arrangement of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world pioneers in the generation of numerous items, including aluminum, iron metal, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds.Although principally centered around extraction of minerals, Rio Tinto likewise has noteworthy operations in refining, especially to refine bauxite and iron ore. The organization has operations on six mainlands yet is for the most part moved in Australia and Canada, and possesses its mining operations through a mind boggling web of completely and halfway claimed subsidiaries. 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.
Rio Tinto Group is a double recorded organization exchanged on both the London Stock Exchange where it is a segment of the FTSE 100 Index and the Australian Securities Exchange where it is a segment of the S&P/ASX 200 file.