# Rio Tinto

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/rio-tinto/  
**Website:** https://www.riotinto.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Rio Tinto is a British-Australian multinational mining and metals corporation and one of the world's largest producers of iron ore, aluminum, copper, and diamonds. Rio Tinto does not publish a public developer API, but operates supplier portals (Supplier Master Data Management and a transactional platform) and a START traceability program. Its GitHub presence is limited to a small number of internal forks (ai-sentry, xpano).

## Kin Score — 6.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 40.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Rio Tinto Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Use cases (2)

- **Supplier Onboarding** — Rio Tinto maintains supplier master data and transactional portals
- **Responsible Sourcing** — START provides end-to-end traceability of materials from mine to product

## Tags

Mining, Metals, Resources, Critical Minerals

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/rio-tinto/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.