Formed in 1873 to acquire the huge Rio Tinto complex in Huelva, Spain but later expanded into Rhodesia and other countries as the Spanish property became more difficult to work. Merged in 1952 to form Rio Tinto Zinc.
Capital by 1929 £3,750,000.
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