Domestic alumina spot prices held steady with slight adjustments last week, and scattered transactions showed mixed pricing. On the supply side, recent domestic alumina operating capacity stayed at around 99.4 million tonnes per year. A new alumina project in Beihai, Guangxi, is expected to start...
Russian aluminium producer Rusal is nearing the final stage of the permitting process for a planned bauxite-to-alumina processing project in Kalimantan, Indonesia, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. The project will process bauxite into alumina as part of...
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...Reuters reported that Guinea's government has dispatched security forces to prevent RUSAL from exporting alumina from the port of Conakry...
...A record fine amounting to over HUF 10 billion will be imposed on alumina producer MAL Zrt for the red sludge disaster the company caused in October, 2010, state secretary of environmental protection Zoltán Illés told wire agency MTI...
...Bnamericas reported that Vale has concluded the sale of its stakes in bauxite, alumina and aluminum assets in Brazil to Norsk Hydro...
...The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry of Ukraine is planning to call for charges to be made against Mykolaiv Alumina Refinery, which is 100% controlled by RUSAL (Russia), for environment pollution...
...Vale acquired 22 percent, or $3.5 billion, of Hydro’s outstanding shares, and received $503 million in cash for the assets, Vale said in a statement today. Vale also transferred “off-take rights and outstanding commercial contracts” and net debt of $655 million to Hydro, according to the...
...National Aluminium Co., India’s second-biggest producer, fell the most in more than two years in Mumbai trading after federal investigators said they arrested the company’s chairman in a bribery investigation...
...Australia's alumina and aluminium refining companies say the Federal Government has to get the carbon tax formula right or the industry here will shut down...
...Bhubaneswar, Feb 23 (IANS) The state-owned National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) will miss its target to produce 16.80 lakh tonnes of alumina in the current financial year ending March, a senior company official said Wednesday...
...LOCAL man Bruce Miller is fast approaching a milestone that few will achieve. He is celebrating 30 years with BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina this month and has no plans to slow down...
...In the key year that China’s “Twelfth-Five” plan will come on, Asian aluminium industry exhibition “ 2011 China International Aluminum Exhibition” will be held at Shanghai New International Expo Centre during July 13 and 15 2011. It is expected that all Global 500 giants in the aluminum industry...
...China's domestic spot alumina prices ex-works basis continued steady amid thin trade Tuesday, industry sources said. Prices were still heard highest in Henan province at above Yuan 2,800/mt ($426), with offers at Yuan 2,850/mt. In Shandong, major refiner Weiqiao was heard trading at Yuan...
...Brisbane-based exploration company Cape Alumina is on the hunt for a new CEO following the resignation of managing director and CEO, Dr Paul Messenger. As announced in a statement to ASX today, Messenger will be stepping down on February 28 to manage “family business interests” but will remain...
... Financial results were negatively impacted by net after tax expense of USD 11.5 million related to the purchase of downside aluminum price ...
... Russia's Rusal produced 4.083 million mt of aluminum in 2010, up 3% from 2009, the company said Monday. Alumina output totaled 7.84 million mt, up 8% from a year earlier, while bauxite production totaled 11.8 million mt, up 4% over the same period, the company said in a statement. ...
... the world's largest aluminum producer, plans to increase production of aluminum and alumina by 2 percent and 8 percent, respectively, this year. ...
... Goldman Sachs notes a recent recovery in primary aluminium production has driven an equally sharp improvement in demand for metallurgical grade alumina. The stockbroker estimates demand in 2010 was 87.6 million tonnes, forecasting this will increase to 111.2 million tonnes in 2015. ....
...China Knowledge reported that the government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region announced that a public and private partnership project started operation in Inner Mongolia to extract 200,000 tonnes of alumina per year from coal fly ash...
... A public-private partnership has begun a project in Inner Mongolia to extract 200,000 metric tons of alumina a year from a residue created by burning coal, the regional government said in a statement Thursday...
