{"id":1174856,"date":"2020-03-30T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1018643"},"modified":"2020-03-30T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:12:15","slug":"rio-pledges-a25m-to-support-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1174856","title":{"rendered":"Rio pledges A$25m to support fight against covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global mining major Rio Tinto <a aria-label=\"has pledged A$25 million (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riotinto.com\/news\/releases\/Covid-19-update\" >has pledged A$25 million<\/a> in additional funding to support grassroots communities around the world with covid-19 preparedness and recovery efforts, bringing the company&#8217;s total voluntary global community contributions to around A$60 million for 2020.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rio says the additional investment will predominantly focus on value-in-kind opportunities, some of which are well progressed and include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supply of masks and protective equipment to support emergency and health professionals;<\/li>\n<li>Donations to national and local communities, hospitals and international agencies;<\/li>\n<li>Provision of ventilation units and temporary medical units in communities;<\/li>\n<li>Further investment in education and financial literacy programs as remote learning becomes the global norm for children;<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing of hand sanitizer at certain Rio sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company is actively contributing to covid-19-related best practice forums in health, safety and communities, as established by the International Council of Mining and Metals, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Rio has already put strict protocols in place globally across its operations, in line with government guidance and directives and advice from leading medical experts. The majority of Rio&#8217;s employees work at operations and cannot work from home, so the company has implemented a number of controls to support them, such as travel restrictions, social distancing protocols, personal hygiene, on-call service and leadership on site.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Jean-S\u00e9bastien Jacques stated in a media release that the company\u2019s focus is to maintain a &#8220;business as usual&#8221;\u00a0approach with safeguards in place, but its first priority remains the health and safety of all employees and communities.<\/p>\n<p>As an organization, Rio Tinto has been active with its humanitarian efforts. Earlier this year, <a aria-label=\"the company donated A$750,000 (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/rio-donates-a1m-to-australian-red-cross-for-bushfire-relief-and-recovery\/\" >the company donated A$750,000<\/a> to the Australian Red Cross to help with disaster relief and recovery efforts for people affected by Australia\u2019s bushfire crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio&#8217;s voluntary global community contributions now total A$60 million for 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2648,624,369,2640],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174860,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174856\/revisions\/1174860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}