Luzenac, Borax and Dampier Salt combined forces on 1er Febuary 2006 to form Rio Tinto Minerals, the world's leading producer of borates, talcs and salt. Rio Tinto Minerals offers an unrivalled range of talcs and borates for ceramic tiles, sanitraryware, cordierite refractories, technical ceramics, glazes, frits, engobes and tableware.

Rio Tinto Minerals supplies nearly half the global demand for refined borates, key ingredients in fiberglass, glass, ceramics, fertlizers, wood preservatives and hundred of other products.

Rio Tinto Minerals is the acknowledged world leader in developing industrial minerals - building blocks for life, and for products that contribute to better living - and in developing solutions to build our customers' businesses