1995.0065
Records of Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd [1957-1969]
Creator(s): 
Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd [-]

Comalco Ltd related files transferred from RTZ Ltd's London Office:  Reports, correspondence and subject files detailing the corporation's early development and formation and negotiations with early partners British Aluminium Corporation and later Kaiser Aluminium Corporation.  Includes the personal company files of RC Atherton the Company's London Director. 

Comalco was formed in 1960 by CRA Ltd and Kaiser Aluminium to manage and market products from an integrated group of Aluminium companies.  Based on the mining of bauxite deposits at Weipa and Aurukun the company operates aluminium smelters at Bell Bay, Queensland; Gladstone, Tasmania; and Bluff, New Zealand.  The group's Products Division operates fabrication plants in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. A CRA Ltd Collection.

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