Anglo American Logo

Anglo American Logo — Anglo American plc is a global mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is a major producer of diamonds, copper, nickel, iron ore, metallurgical and thermal coal, and the world’s largest producer of platinum, with around 40% of world production. Has operations in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America. Primarily listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of the index FTSE 100. Secondarily also listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

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anglo american logo

Sir Ernest Oppenheimer along with American JP Morgan, founded the Anglo American Corporation, a gold mining company, in 1917 with £ 1 million, with British and American funds, and thereby derived the name of the company. The PCA is became the largest shareholder of the company De Beers in 1926. Two years later, the AAC began mining in the belt of Zambia for copper. More

Xstrata Logo

Xstrata Logo — Xstrata plc is a global mining company with world headquarters in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. Is one of the largest producers of coal (and the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal), copper, nickel, vanadium primary and zinc and the world’s largest producer of ferrochrome. Operates in 19 countries to over Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America.

xstrata logo

xstrata logo

Mainly is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is part of the index FTSE 100. It has a second listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange. Its largest shareholder, with a stake of around 34%, is Glencore International AG. More

Rio Tinto Logo

Rio Tinto Logo — Rio Tinto Group is an international business group sector mining , formed from the merger in 1995 of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation (RTZ), based in the United Kingdom and formerly known as Rio Company Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto of Australia Limited Conzinc (CRA), based in Australia. It is the coal mining group world’s largest two with a profit of 8.974 million U.S. dollars in the year 2006 on a turnover of 25,440 million. Has agreed to buy Canadian aluminum company Alcan Inc. per 38.1 billion dollars, in a move that will create the largest global leader of aluminum. The President of Alcan, Dick Evans, will lead the new division will be renamed “Rio Tinto Alcan” and will have its headquarters in Montreal.

rio tinto logo

rio tinto logo

The Company is engaged in the extraction of iron ore, copper, coal, talc, titanium dioxide, salt, aluminum and even diamonds through several divisions throughout the planet. More

Telus Logo

Telus Logo — Telus is a leading Canadian of telecommunications, with $ 8.143 million CAD ​​in annual revenue, is the second largest in Canada after Bell Canada. Telus provides telecommunication products and services online and wireless, is the leading provider of online telephony in the province of Alberta, in most parts of British Columbia, and in eastern Quebec.

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telus logo

Telus came in 1990, after the privatization of Alberta Government Telephones (AGT), until then owned by the government of Alberta. In 1995 Telus acquires EdTel, telephone service in the city of Edmonton, ending with the government presence in telecommunications in the province and continuing the process of deregulation of the telecommunications market. This deregulation also allowed other companies, such as Rogers Communications, Bell Canada, Primus Canada, and others, come to compete in Alberta, while fast emerging technologies such as mobile phones, fiber optic and Internet services that Telus did increase services. In 1996, the brand was officially implemented Telus, unifying and removing marks and EdTel AGT. More

Bell Mobility Logo

Bell Mobility Logo — Bell Mobility, formerly Bell Cellular is a subsidiary of Bell Canada providing services to mobile in Canada. Bell Mobility has over 6,000,000 subscribers to its cellular network at the end of the last quarter of fiscal year 2009. In July 2006, Bell took responsibility for the services of the defunct company Wireless Aliant in Atlantic Canada as part of a major restructuring of Bell and Aliant. The company continued to do business under the name Aliant until the rebranding in April 2008.

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bell mobility logo

Virgin Mobile Canada, Solo Mobile and PC Mobile uses Bell’s network as mobile virtual network Operators (ORMV). Certain subsidiaries of Bell continue to operate their own networks without son-distinct (but in general, for roaming with) Bell Mobility. These subsidiaries are Northwestel (NMI Mobility and Latitude Wireless), Télébec (Télébec Mobility) and NorthernTel (NorthernTel Mobility). More

Dakar Rally Logo

Dakar Rally Logo — The Dakar Rally is an annual competition in rally raid disputed during the first weeks of January, considered one of the toughest rallies and the most famous in the world. Until 2008, during the time that lasted the test, took the runners from some city in Europe, to the city of Dakar, Senegal. For many years left Paris but since 1995 has changed his starting place for other European cities (Granada, Lisbon), largely for political advertising or because the real competition did not start until it entered the African continent.

dakar rally logo

dakar rally logo

Also, the end of the test was not always Dakar. In 1992, the race crossed the entire African continent, ending in Cape Town, in South Africa. In 2000 and 2003 the race ended in Egypt, in the cities of Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh, respectively, with the pyramids as landscape. Because in 2008 was suspended on the recommendation of the government of France for possible terrorist attacks, the rally takes place since 2009 between the South American countries of Argentina and Chile, and since 2012, Peru is also home to the competition. More