Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001104659-25-022024
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Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 424B2
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ates from operations in Canada, Madagascar, South Africa and the United States. Rio Tinto Borates, based in the United States, is a world leader in borates, with a mine, processing plants, commercial and research facilities. Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium is an industry leader in high-grade titanium dioxide feedstocks with operations in Canada, Madagascar and South Africa. The Minerals portfolio also includes the Iron Ore Company of Canada, a leading producer of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with low levels of impurities and the Group’s two diamond mines, Argyle Diamonds in Australia and the Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada, which focus on the mining, processing and sales and marketing of “rough” or uncut diamonds and enable the Group to be one of the world’s leading diamond producers and the largest producer of natural colored diamonds.

Rio Tinto’s Commercial team includes the Group’s global sales and marketing, procurement, and marine and logistics operations and is the key interface with local, regional and global markets, customers and suppliers. The Commercial team also focuses on finding safer, smarter and more efficient ways to produce and deliver the materials the world needs.

Exploration at Rio Tinto involves identifying, prioritizing and testing geological, geochemical and geophysical targets through the use of advanced exploration technologies. At the end of 2022, the Group’s exploration portfolio included exploration projects active in 18 countries across a range of commodities including copper, nickel, iron ore, bauxite, diamonds, lithium and mineral sands.

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#### The DLC Structure
Each of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited is the ultimate holding company of the companies within its respective group and its respective assets are substantially comprised of shares in such companies. As holding companies, Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited are dependent on the other members of the Rio Tinto Group and income received from them.

In December 1995 the shareholders of each of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited approved the terms of a dual listed companies structure (the “DLC structure”) that is designed to place the shareholders of each of the companies in substantially the same position as if they held shares in a single entity owning all of the assets of both Companies. Following the approval of the DLC structure, each of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited entered into a DLC Structure Sharing Agreement (the “Sharing Agreement”). The Sharing Agreement ensures that the boards of directors of each of Rio Tinto plc and Rio