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Rio Tinto to hand over the gold, silver and bronze medals for Olympic Games at a special ceremony
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Rio Tinto, the mining company responsible for the production of the precious metals for the London 2012 Olympic Games, will hand over the gold, silver and bronze medals on Monday night at a special ceremonial event at the tower.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) chairman Sebastian Coe and Rio Tinto chairman Jan du Plessis will take the 4,700 medals down to the vaults where they will be kept there until they are needed for victory ceremonies.
The arrival of the medals will be announced by a fanfare by the trumpeters of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Collingwood and attended by The Tower’s famous Yeoman Warders and 150 Get Set network schoolchildren from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Lord Coe said the victory ceremonies brought a conclusion to the thousands of hours of training an athlete endures to become successful.
“The victory ceremonies then provide the moment they can truly celebrate their success," he said. "It’s great that the London 2012 medals will be kept safe and secure at the Tower of London until then.”
Rio Tinto provided eight tonnes of gold, silver and copper from its Kennecott Utah Copper mine in Salt Lake City, USA and the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia to make the medals, which were then produced by the Royal Mint in South Wales.
Du Plessis said all the Rio Tinto employees were proud and excited to have played a small part in London 2012 by making all the medals.
“Metals from our mines in the mountains of Utah and the deserts of Mongolia have now been transformed into these beautiful gleaming medals,” he said.
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said: “For centuries the Tower of London has protected some of this country's greatest treasures so there can be no better sanctuary for the 2012 medals – the most precious possession any athlete could hope to possess – than at this world famous iconic landmark.”
The designer of the Olympic Games medals, British artist, David Watkins and the designer of the Paralympic Games medals Lin Cheung, a practising jewellery artist and senior lecturer in jewellery design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, London will also be attending the event.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) chairman Sebastian Coe and Rio Tinto chairman Jan du Plessis will take the 4,700 medals down to the vaults where they will be kept there until they are needed for victory ceremonies.
The arrival of the medals will be announced by a fanfare by the trumpeters of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Collingwood and attended by The Tower’s famous Yeoman Warders and 150 Get Set network schoolchildren from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Lord Coe said the victory ceremonies brought a conclusion to the thousands of hours of training an athlete endures to become successful.
“The victory ceremonies then provide the moment they can truly celebrate their success," he said. "It’s great that the London 2012 medals will be kept safe and secure at the Tower of London until then.”
Rio Tinto provided eight tonnes of gold, silver and copper from its Kennecott Utah Copper mine in Salt Lake City, USA and the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia to make the medals, which were then produced by the Royal Mint in South Wales.
Du Plessis said all the Rio Tinto employees were proud and excited to have played a small part in London 2012 by making all the medals.
“Metals from our mines in the mountains of Utah and the deserts of Mongolia have now been transformed into these beautiful gleaming medals,” he said.
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, said: “For centuries the Tower of London has protected some of this country's greatest treasures so there can be no better sanctuary for the 2012 medals – the most precious possession any athlete could hope to possess – than at this world famous iconic landmark.”
The designer of the Olympic Games medals, British artist, David Watkins and the designer of the Paralympic Games medals Lin Cheung, a practising jewellery artist and senior lecturer in jewellery design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and Design, London will also be attending the event.
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