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Glencore lists in London

Company founded, 2011-05-24, United Kingdom.

What happened

Glencore listed on the London Stock Exchange on 24 May 2011.1,2

Why it matters

The listing turned a private trader into a public group.1,2

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Around the same time

  1. Escondida porphyry copper found

    Escondida became the largest copper mine in the world.3,4

  2. Giant Mine strike explosion

    The mine's later arsenic trioxide legacy made Giant a major remediation case.5,6

  3. Northparkes block cave air blast

    Northparkes was the first block caving mine in Australia, and the Coroner's findings shaped how block caving is regulated there.7,8

  4. Arica-La Paz railway service ends

    The line, handed over in May 1913, stopped running after 92 years.9,10

  5. Glencore lists in London

    The listing turned a private trader into a public group.1,2

  6. Soma mine disaster

    Soma mine disaster. Wikidata records 301 deaths.11

  7. Juukan Gorge rock shelters destroyed

    Rio Tinto's board review followed and its chief executive and two senior executives lost their 2020 bonuses.12,13,14,15

  8. China begins export controls on gallium and germanium

    It was formal Announcement No. 23 of 2023 (3 July 2023) and put gallium and germanium exports under licence.16,17

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Mines

OwnedKidd Mine (Kidd Creek)Glencore's Kidd was called the world's deepest base metals mine in December 2024.18

Events

Led toGlencore completes merger with XstrataGlencore completed its merger with Xstrata on 2 May 2013.1An example ofMarc Rich + Co AG establishedIt began in 1974 as Marc Rich + Co AG, marketing ferro-alloys.1

Sources

  1. Glencore timeline
  2. London (item Q84), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  3. La genesis de Escondida: el hallazgo que transformo la mineria chilena (opinion column by a participant) Guia Minera de Chile
  4. Escondida Mine (item Q14995147), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  5. Giant Mine Historical Timeline Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
  6. Giant Mine (item Q1423887), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  7. 1999 Northparkes Air Blast case study (Learning from disasters) NSW Resources Regulator
  8. Parkes (item Q605513), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  9. La historia del ferrocarril de Arica a La Paz Memoria Chilena, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile
  10. Wikidata item Q2203 (Arica)
  11. Wikidata item Q16869476 (Soma mine disaster)
  12. Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine (26 May 2020) The Guardian
  13. Rio Tinto executives stripped of bonuses over destruction of Juukan Gorge rock shelters (24 Aug 2020) ABC News (Australia)
  14. Rio Tinto publishes board review of cultural heritage management (25 Aug 2020)
  15. Juukan Gorge (item Q102115281), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  16. China: Government announces export control measures for gallium and germanium Global Trade Alert
  17. Beijing (item Q956), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  18. Kidd Creek closure announcement, December 2024 CTV News

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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