Alcoa has moved its proposed acquisition of South32's bauxite, alumina and aluminium interests forward with a US SEC filing, with the transaction carrying an implied enterprise value of up to USD 5.6 billion. Alcoa Corporation has filed a Form S-4 registration statement with the US Securities and...
National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) has reported its highest-ever operational and financial performance for FY2025-26 as the state-run aluminium producer moves ahead with major expansion projects and a broader push into critical minerals and resource security. National Aluminium Company Ltd...
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The major projects benefiting from mining sector investment in Brazil's Pará state are Vale's Carajás Serra Sul S11D and Votorantim Metais'(VM) Alumina Rondon. That's according to Pará state's minerals industry association, Simineral. The association's president, José Fernando Gomes Júnior, told...
Aluminum Corporation of China (CHALCO) said it entered into a joint venture agreement with Hangzhou Jinjiang Group Co., Ltd. to jointly establish Guizhou Huajin Aluminum Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of temporarily amounting to Rmb1 billion. CHALCO and Jinjiang Group will contribute Rmb 600...
Guinea's parliament has approved amendments in a deal with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) which will see the start of bauxite production in 2017 and the construction of a 2-million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery from 2018. "The National Assembly unanimously adopted the amendment of Global Alumina...
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has pledged 75% of its Irish alumina plant Aughinish Alumina against a credit from Glencore for alumina supplies in 2014-2016, as seen by PRIME economic news agency in a document that metal giant Norilsk Nickel has sent to its major shareholders on Wednesday. The...
Bauxite industry experts have given thumbs down to the proposed redevelopment of Reynolds mines in St Ann for ore export and construction of a coal-fired refinery, saying it is likely to impact negatively on the tourism product, which now dominates the economy of Ocho Rios. Economist Dennis...
The State Environmental Council (COEMA), an agency linked to the State of Pará Department of the Environment (SEMA), northern Brazil, approved, on Wednesday, April 23, the granting of the Preliminary License (PL) to the Alumina Rondon project, a Votorantim Metais development to be built in the city...
The efficiency of the Central Highlands bauxite projects was again mentioned in a regular press conference of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on Monday. Deputy Minister Do Thang Hai confirmed that the Tan Rai project will take losses in the first five years and needs 12 years to recover its...
Economic ties between Iran and Russia are developing successfully, Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mehdi Karbasian said. "There are good potentials for boosting cooperation between Tehran and Moscow," he said. As an example of growing bilateral ties, Mehdi mentioned the signing of a...
Glenn Kelly and his 75-strong team at Montreal-based Orbite Aluminae Inc. face a critical one-year deadline to complete a commercial-scale high-purity alumina (HPA) plant at Cap Chat in Quebec’s Gaspé. “It’s a race against time to master some technical hurdles and bring the plant into production,”...
President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government would soon come out with a declaration on the establishment of an Alumina industry. He said the establishment of the industry would not only add value to the production of bauxite for export, but would also create a number of job...
Glenn Kelly and his 75-strong team at Montreal-based Orbite Aluminae Inc. face a critical one-year deadline to complete a commercial-scale high-purity alumina (HPA) plant at Cap Chat in Quebec’s Gaspé. “It’s a race against time to master some technical hurdles and bring the plant into production,”...
United Co. Rusal PLC signed a MoU with PT Arbaya Energi to develop an alumina smelter in West Kalimantan province of Indonesia The two companies will "work together to develop the appropriate resources and infrastructure investment," Rusal said in a statement. Rusal didn’t talk about its...
Bauxite miner Cita Mineral Investindo ceased its bauxite ore export activities on Jan. 12, following the mineral ore export ban implemented by the government. Bauxite and nickel miners have been hit the hardest in the wake of Indonesia’s policy initially aimed to ban mineral ore exports. The...
The Orissa government has assured Vedanta Aluminium of leasing laterite minerals, which will help the company run its 1-million-tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa’s Kalahandi district. The state government has agreed to lease out laterite deposits in Rayagada and Koraput districts to VAL...
On the last day of IBAAS-CHALIECO International Symposium on Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium in China; interesting papers on alternate routes of aluminium production and alternate source of aluminium were presented. The presentations on “Low Temperature Aluminium Carbothermic Smelting Process” by...
Guinea signed an accord with a unit of Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Co. to build an alumina refinery expected to attract an estimated $5 billion in foreign investment into the West African nation over eight years. Guinea, the world’s largest exporter of bauxite which makes aluminum, signed an...
Det Norske Veritas will collect data from the 11 metering stations next week (week 46), expecting start-up on Monday 11 November 2013. Nordic Mining's first reporting of results from the measuring will be published in week 47. The 11 metering stations are currently recording parameters like...
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller meets Mr. Mark Hansen, head of Noble Group Metals Division and Mr Richard Elman, Chairman of Noble Group with Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining. Noble Resources Ltd which has entered into an agreement with Clarendon...
