Our footprint in Canada

We are Canada’s largest mining and metals company with people driving progress coast to coast. With our diverse operations and facilities, including world-class mines, processing capabilities, hydropower plants and    research and development centres spanning across the country, we’re finding new ways to shape a better future.

Our Canadian operations  

More than 14,000 people work across our sites to support a low carbon future.

We supply the world’s aluminium, lithium, scandium, iron ore, titanium dioxide and diamonds. We invest in technology and innovation, engage in exploration activities across the country and forge meaningful relationships with the communities in which we operate.

 Hydropower, Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

An important hub for our aluminium business, the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region is responsible for close to half of our global aluminium production
BC Works, Canada

BC Works

Our BC Works operation comprises a newly modernised aluminium smelter and the Kemano Powerhouse, a hydropower facility supplied by the Nechako reservoir
Quebec operations

Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Quebec operations

We’ve developed a new way to sustainably extract and produce high-purity scandium oxide from the waste streams of titanium dioxide production at our Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium Quebec operations, without the need for any additional mining.
Snow covered pit at IOC Operations in Labrador City, NL Canada

Iron Ore Company of Canada

Iron Ore Company of Canada operations are integrated across Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador and Sept-Iles, Quebec
Galaxy

Galaxy

Located in Québec’s James Bay region, the Galaxy Project is a sustainable hard rock lithium development with future integration potential.
Nemaska Lithium

Nemaska Lithium

Nemaska Lithium is an integrated project in Québec, Canada including the Whabouchi mine and Bécancour conversion facility.
Diavik from the air

Diavik

About 200 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle sit some of the world’s most sought-after diamonds

 

Careers at Rio Tinto

Careers

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Lithium is an essential ingredient for electric vehicles

Products

We supply the metals and minerals used to help the world grow and decarbonise

Featured stories

Tatichek-site-dig

Artefacts reveal new insights to history

A new Canadian research project aims to resolve “unfinished business”
Collection of rough diamonds from Daivik diamond mine

150 million carats at Diavik

In the remote Northwest Territories of Canada, about 200 kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, a new milestone has been reached.
Saguenay Operations, Canada

Amping up hydroelectric network reliability

How our teams in Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean, in Canada, ensure the stability of our hydroelectricity-powered aluminium operations.