Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 521

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 521
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 is a combination of employees and contractors supporting the operations. Operational personnel reside in on-site accommodation at Escondida and are sourced from Antofagasta or from other parts of Chile. Titles, leases and permits MEL holds a total of 764 mining concessions for Escondida covering an area of 406,018ha. There are 18 principal mining concessions that provide MEL with the right to explore and mine indefinitely at Escondida, subject to payment of annual license fees. All leases were obtained through the legally established process in which judicial requests are presented to the Chilean state.

| Lease name       | Registered tenement holder | Expiry date | Surface area (ha) |
| Alexis 1/1424    | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             7,059 |
| Amelia 1/1049    | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             5,235 |
| Catita 1/376     | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             1,732 |
| Claudia 1/70     | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |               557 |
| Colorado 501/977 | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             2,385 |
| Costa 1/1861     | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             9,159 |
| Donaldo 1/612    | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             3,060 |
| Ela 1/100        | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |               500 |
| Gata 1 1/100     | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |               400 |
| Gata 2 1/50      | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |               200 |
| Guillermo 1/368  | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |             1,785 |
| Hole 14          | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |                 1 |
| Naty 1/46        | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |               230 |
| Paola 1/3000     | Minera Escondida Ltda.     | Permanent   |