Rio Tinto Aluminium

• Boyne Smelters Limited

Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL) is Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, producing in excess of 500,000 tonnes of aluminium a year. BSL converts alumina to primary aluminium in an electrolytic reduction process, consuming one third of Queensland’s power. The company is managed by Rio Tinto Aluminium and is located in Central Queensland, Australia, about 30 kilometres south of Gladstone. The operation employess 1,247 employees and 174 contractors

• Queensland Alumina Limited

Queensland Alumina Limited is one of the largest alumina refineries in the world. It is owned by a consortium of three international companies and each has an equity share interest in the operation. Rio Tinto Aluminium holds a 38.6 per cent interest in the refinery. The company is managed by Rio Tinto Aluminium and is located in Gladstone, Central Queensland, Australia.

BHP Billiton

• Groote Eylandt Manganese

The Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd (GEMCO), a company jointly owned by BHP Billiton (60%) and the Anglo American Corporation (40%) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of manganese ore. The site is located on Australia’s northern coastline.

XStrata

• Mount Isa Mines

The Mount Isa mining operation is the largest underground mine in Australia and one of the world's largest. It ranks among the world's three leading producers of lead, the five largest producers of silver, the 10 largest source of zinc and is the 19th largest producer of copper.

Newmont

• Pajingo

• Jundee

The Jundee operation lies in the Yandal goldfield, approximately 800 kilometers northeast of Perth, Western Australia. The mine sells approximately 341,000 consolidated ounces of gold and 341,000 equity ounces of gold. The mine contains 1.5 million ounces of gold reserves and the operation employs approximately 168 employees and 350 contract workers.

Rio Tinto Aluminium

• Weipa

Weipa is located 900km north-north-west of Cairns, Queensland. The mine produces approximately 16 million tonnes of bauxite. The operation employs approximately 758 employees.

Gladstone Ports Corporation

• R G Tanna Coal Terminal

The R G Tanna Coal Terminal is located near Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. The port's capacity is approximately 65 million tonnes pera annum of coal. The operation employs approximately 577 employees.

Rio Tinto Coal

• Kestrel Coal

Kestrel Mine, located in Queensland's Bowen Basin 50 km northeast of  Emerald and 300 km west of Rockhampton, is an underground longwall operation supplying world markets with premium quality high volatile coking coal as well as thermal coal.

Kestrel Mine is jointly owned by Rio Tinto (80 per cent) and Mitsui Kestrel Coal Investment Pty Ltd (20 per cent) and employs 320 people.

• Coal & Allied

Coal & Allied is one of the major coal producers in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia.  The company employs more than 2000 people across three operations - Mount Thorley Warkworth, Hunter Valley Operations and Bengalla. Annual coal production is around 30 million tonnes.

Alcoa

• Anglesea Power Station

Alcoa Anglesea Power Station is located on mining lease known as the Anglesea Heath near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.  It is coal powered with one steam turbine with a capacity of 150MW of electricity and supplies approximately 40 per cent of the power required by Alcoa’s Point Henry aluminium smelter.  Alcoa Anglesea employees approximately 100 permanent staff.

XStrata

• Abbot Point Bulk Coal

The Abbot Point Coal Terminal is located near Bowen, Queensland, Australia. The port's capacity is approximately 12 million tonnes pera annum of coal. The operation employs approximately 220 employees.

• Newlands Coal Mine

Located in the northern part of Queensland's Bowen Basin, Newlands mine produces export thermal coal from underground and open cut mining operations.  Annual coal production is around 10 million tonnes.

BMA - BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance

• Hay Point Coal Terminal

The Hay Point Coal Terminal is located near Mackay, Queensland, Australia. The port's capacity is approximately 44 million tonnes pera annum of coal. The operation employs approximately 10 employees and 300 contractors.