Impact Minerals plans staged 4,000-tpa HPA production in US
A NewPro study supports a staged 2,000-to-4,000-tonne-per-year high-purity alumina plant on the US Gulf Coast, with a post-tax NPV of about USD373 million and a 42.3 per cent IRR. Impact Minerals is advancing plans for a modular high-purity alumina (HPA) plant in the US after an independent scoping...
Ireland withholds Aughinish Alumina meeting notes amid Russia export review
Ireland’s Department of Enterprise has withheld the release records of discussions between its secretary general and Aughinish Alumina management, citing “highly confidential information” shared by the company. The decision comes as scrutiny intensifies over the Limerick refinery’s alumina exports...
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Chinese gear maker SSNP files case against Vedanta for 'losses' due to Lanjigarh alumina refinery shutdown
Chinese power equipment manufacturer Shanghai Shandong Nuclear Power Construction (SSNP) has filed a case against Vedanta Aluminium for allegedly causing losses due to work stoppage at the latter's controversial alumina refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. SSNP has pleaded for arbitration to recover its...
Street battles erupt near RUSAL Alumina refinery in Guinea
Street clashes broke out on Sunday in the Guinean industrial town of Fria, home to RUSAL's huge alumina refinery, after local youths armed with knives and guns attacked suspected black market fuel salesmen, witnesses and officials said. At least 20 people were injured in the fighting which ran for...
Odisha Govt expresses inability to supply bauxite to Vedanta Alumina
In a major setback toVedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the Odisha Government on Tuesday expressed its inability to immediately supply bauxite to Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) after the company sought permission to shut down its refinery at Lanjigarh due to scarcity of raw material. After attending...
Local Tribals blocked Utkal Alumina road to protest
Hundreds of tribals of Kashipur block in Odisha’s Rayagada district blocked the road leading to the mines of Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) on Friday, demanding fulfillment of their demands. The tribals, who blocked the road near Andrakancho under Baphlimali Surakhya Samiti (BSS), vowed...
Queensland Alumina refinery construction workforce invited to reunion
If you go back to the 1960s in Gladstone the biggest employer was the Meatworks and it was a much different place to now. When the meatworks closed down, the entire complexion of the town changed dramatically with a new player in town, Kaiser Engineers and Constuctors who came to build the...
Workers urge local MP to save Vedanta refinery
After Vedanta Aluminium Limited’s Lanjigarh alumina plant closure notice to the State Government, the save-Vedanta movement seems to be escalating further with hundreds of local people working at the alumina refinery meeting Kalahandi MP Bhakta Charan Das on Saturday and pleading for saving the...
Ormet to cut output at Burnside alumina refinery, Louisiana
U.S. aluminum producer Ormet Corp said it was cutting back operations at its Burnside alumina refinery in Louisiana, due to high power costs and low global prices that have also forced it to shutter part of its aluminium production. A small producer on the global scale, Ormet joins industry...
Noranda resumes Los Angeles alumina operations
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. has resumed alumina production at its Gramercy, La., refinery after temporarily halting operations due to Hurricane Isaac and anticipates a return to full production in the second half of September. Noranda reduced operating levels on Aug. 28 ahead of the storm, a...
Vedanta Lanjigarh plant shutdown will affect 7,000 people
Vedanta Aluminium Limited, a subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange listed multi-billion dollar Vedanta Resources group, on Thursday told the Odisha government it wants to temporarily shut down its alumina refinery in the state due to lack of bauxite by December 5. “The decision is painful because...
Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) expresses their inability to provide bauxite for Vedanta refinery
The steel and mines department and Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) have expressed their inability to provide Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) alternative source of bauxite for its Lanjigarh alumina refinery because of constraints of law even as the company has sent an advance notice for shut down of the...
Vedanta says alumina refinery closure won't hit aluminium output
Vedanta Aluminium's plan to shut its alumina refinery in eastern India will not hit its aluminium output because it aims to treble imports of the raw material, a company official said on Thursday. The company, part of billionaire Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Group, intends to implement a temporary...
Vedanta may close its Lanjigarh alumina refinery by Dec
Vedanta group may close its 1 MTPA alumina refinery in Odisha’s Lanjigarh by December first week as the company is facing severe shortage of bauxite, company sources said. “We are in the process of giving three month’s notice to the Department of Labour, Odisha, to close operations. It is a...
Vedanta group shares down on 5th Sept
Shares in Vedanta group firms - Sterlite Industries, Sesa Goa, and Cairn India - traded lower Wednesday on news that Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) will shut down the 3 million-tonne-per-annum alumina refinery in Lanjigarh. Vedanta Aluminium is likely to send a notice to the Orissa government for shutting...
Gove Bauxite refinery to deals with waste water issue
The owners of the bauxite refinery on the Gove Penisula in the Northern Territory say they're working on ways to deal with an excess of waste water that accumulated on the site. Waste water is produced as part of the refining process, and the amount stored by the facility has been growing in the...
Vedanta set to source bauxite from GMDC
Opening of tender by state owned Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) for sale of 92,174 tonnes of bauxite has injected hope to Vedanta’s alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district that is staring at possible shutdown on bauxite crunch. “We will participate in the bid of GMDC for...
FICCI urges Indian Govt to ban bauxite exports
Trade body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) has urged the Union ministry of commerce and industry to ban bauxite exports fearing closure of alumina refineries for shortage of the key raw material required to produce alumina. “India has a large and developed aluminum...
Hindalco faces Vedanta's mining fate in Odisha
Even when the protest against Vedanta over mining in Niyamgiri was at its peak, Hindalco Industries quietly carried on with its work in Mali Parbat, just miles away from the Vedanta project. But not anymore! With locals protesting against Hindalco’s move to mine Mali Parbat, the contractor who was...
Utkal Alumina road continues to get blocked by locals
Villagers in Rayagada's Kashipur block continued to obstruct the road leading to the mines of Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday demanding development of the area. Sources said tribals have detained six heavy vehicles of the company at Kupakhal...
