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by tseabra 2453 days ago
Note: that would be in Brazilian Portuguese. "REE-oh TIN-toh" is not that far off from Portuguese from Portugal.
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I was going to say that, since Rio Tinto is a mining company, that it probably originates in Brazil. But actually it is an Anglo-Australian company named after a mine in Spain. (Which, according to Wikipedia, started operations 5000 years ago).