
Guinea is looking to expand its partnership with Glencore beyond bauxite exports, with the two sides discussing potential investments in alumina refining, energy and other strategic projects as Conakry seeks to build more processing capacity at home. The discussions follow a more than USD 300...
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...
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... India rejected Vedanta Resources Plc's proposal to expand its alumina refinery complex in the country, according to a notice from the ...

...A second month of decline in alumina exports from Jamalco — the larger of the two operational refineries in Jamaica — and lower-than-capacity sales by Windalco has positioned the country to repeat last year's lacklustre performance in export of the commodity...

...Compared with its June quarter, Alcoa AA reported a 55% decline in headline September-quarter earnings, to $61 million. The alumina segment--a proxy for Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals' and Alumina's AWC performance--suffered a 26% fall to $70 million, though this figure includes a discrete...

...India has decided to halt Vedanta Resources' (VED.L) plans to expand its alumina refinery in eastern India, newspapers reported on Wednesday, after the environment ministry found "serious violations" of green laws...

...Cape Alumina Limited advised the Australian Stock Exchange on Monday morning it has cancelled its $1.2 billion Pisolite Hills project because the Queensland government's wild rivers declaration rendered the project unviable...

...Hungary will take control of an alumina plant and detained its chief executive after one of the company’s waste reservoirs burst, unleashing toxic sludge that killed at least eight people, premier Viktor Orban said...

... Alcoa Inc (AA.N), the largest U.S. aluminum producer, expects both its Aviles smelter in Spain and its alumina refinery in Sao Luis, Brazil to be running at full capacity by the end of the year...

...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index slipped 0.2 percent to 4,681.30 at the 4:10 p.m. close of trading in Sydney. The gauge has risen 2.2 percent this week...

...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 1.7 percent to 4,686.80, the highest closing level since May 4, at the 4:10 p.m. finish of trading in Sydney. New Zealand’s NZX 50 Index climbed 0.5 percent to 3,235.04 at the 5 p.m. close in Wellington...

...The reservoir of an alumina plant in western Hungary burst on Monday, flooding several towns with towering waves of red sludge...

... NALCO last sold alumina on a long term contract for the current year at 15.055% of LME aluminium price on an FOB basis in December. ...

... 165923 - 2010-09-18 - Reuters reported that Brazil's Alumar alumina refinery has been hit by power and commissioning problems but should be ...

...Finance minsiter Pranab Mukherjee has favoured a balanced approach on the issue of displacement of tribals due to mining projects, saying that solution does not lie in stopping these projects altogether..

...Mining company Bauxite Resources has signed a heads of agreement with Chinese partner Yankuang Corporation to pursue plans to build an alumina refinery in south-west Western Australia...

...is pleased to announce that it will enter into a further Heads of Agreement with its long term Chinese partner, Yankuang Corporation ("Yankuang"), to complete a bankable feasibility study for ...

...Moj news agency quoted CEO of Iran Alumina Company Hosein Ehteram as saying by the end of the Iranian calendar year (March 20) alumina production will reach 210,000 tons, adding that last year's production was 200,000 tons...

...Manama, BAHRAIN -(Dow Jones)- The global alumina market will move closer to balance in 2011, a senior Rio Tinto Alcan executive said Tuesday. Rhodri Harries, the senior vice president of the aluminum producer's commercial, energy and carbon products division, said he expects the market to be...

...Even before the Sompeta embers could fully die down, another agitation against a proposed alumina plant in Vizag Agency has turned violent...