KEY MOMENTS IN JAN DU PLESSIS' TIME AS RIO TINTO CHAIRMAN
* 2009 - Steps in as chairman after then chairman-elect Jim Leng walks out after his first board meeting.
* 2009 - Rio Tinto raises US$15.2 billion to help stabilise the balance sheet after disastrous 2007 acquisition of Alcan.
* 2013 - The board sacks CEO Tom Albanese after a $US3 billion writedown of the Riversdale project in Mozambique bought two years earlier, appoints iron ore head Sam Walsh as his replacement.
* 2014 - Rio staves off $US160 million merger proposal from Glencore.
* 2015 - Hundreds of jobs cut to reduce costs and Rio posts $US866 million annual loss as commodity prices slump.
* 2016 - Jean Sebastien Jacques replaces Sam Walsh as CEO and new executive team announced in a major reorganisation.
* Nov 2016 - Two top executives dismissed over their role in payments scandal related to the Simandou iron ore project.
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