In 2006 Rio Tinto Aluminium was the largest receiver of budgetary assistance from the Australian government, Rio Tinto Aluminium had received over $287 million in assistance from Australian tax dollars.
RTA owns the Weipa bauxite mine, Yarwun Alumina Refinery, and Bell Bay aluminium smelter.
It also has interests (manages or joint-venture) in other aluminium related businesses: In January 1972, Comalco (as the company was then known) ordered two GT26C locomotives to the same design as the Western Australian Government Railways L class (albeit without dynamic brakes), numbered 1.001 and 1.002.
In 2009, both R1001 and R1004 were sold to railways on the East Coast of Australia (1001 to El Zorro [renumbered L277] and 1004 to Qube [reverted to its original GML10 designation]), and were replaced by two production-model JT42Cs, R1005 and R1006.
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