5 Biggest Mining Companies In The World

2. Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO)

Total market cap of the company (in billions of dollars): 75.5

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 43.2

Total assets of the company in 2019 (in billions of dollars): 88

Total profits of the company in 2019 (in millions of dollars): 8,000

Total employees of the company in 2019: 46,007

The Anglo Australian company Rio Tinto was founded 147 years ago in 1873 and is engaged in the extraction of bauxite, alumina, iron ore, gold, diamonds, titanium dioxide, salt and copper among other products. The company is headquartered in Melbourne. The company has mainly grown over the decades through mergers and acquisitions, and has established itself as one of the biggest commodity companies in the world. While the primary options of the company are based in mining, it has also established a significant presence in refining.

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