Investor Seminars Home Invest Investor Seminars RioTinto on Twitter RioTinto Facebook RioTInto on Instagram RioTinto on YouTube RioTinto on LinkedIn CONTACT ACCESSIBILITY MODERN SLAVERY ACT TERMS & CONDITIONS PRIVACY & COOKIES © Rio Tinto 2021. All Rights Reserved. CONFIRM MANAGE COOKIE PREFERENCES Before continuing to use our site, we would like you to consider opting in to the use of cookies in line with our Data Privacy Policy. You may also choose which cookies you are happy for us to use or not agree to any cookies. Please follow the Cookies Preferences link to indicate your preference.

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History Home About Our business History We are proud of what we have achieved. But we know there is more to do. YEAR 1873 Our Founding: from an ancient mine to the world's #1 copper producer Led by Scottish entrepreneur Hugh Matheson, a British-European investor group buys the Rio Tinto mines in Spain in 1873, constructed new processing facilities and introduced new techniques that, from 1877-91, allow the new Rio Tinto Company to transform an operation that had once supplied the ancient Greeks and Romans into the world’s number one copper producer. RioTinto on Twitter RioTinto Facebook RioTInto on Instagram RioTinto on YouTube RioTinto on LinkedIn CONTACT ACCESSIBILITY MODERN SLAVERY ACT TERMS & CONDITIONS PRIVACY & COOKIES © Rio Tinto 2021. All Rights Reserved. CONFIRM MANAGE COOKIE PREFERENCES Before continuing to use our site, we would like you to consider opting in to the use of cookies in line with our Data Privacy Policy. You may also choose which cookies you are happy for us to use or not agree to any cookies. Please follow the Cookies Preferences link to indicate your preference.