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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Project Partners Ma'aden and Alcoa Sign Contract with Hyundai to Construct Alumina Refinery
The Ma'aden Alcoa aluminium joint venture announced today that it has signed a contract worth SR5.6bn with Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co Ltd to construct its alumina refinery at Ras Al Khair in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province. The contract includes: • completing detailed engineering, •...
Alcoa to Hold Back Alumina Refinery Expansion in Australia
Alcoa, the largest aluminum producer in the United States, has yet again decided to postpone expansion of an alumina refinery in Australia as aluminum prices continue to remain under pressure. The move followed its earlier announcement to curtail capacity at some of its smelters and refinery in the...
Hindalco Industries to start Orissa alumina refinery by January 2013
Non-ferrous metals producer Hindalco Industries plans to start its 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery in the eastern state of Orissa by January 2013, a senior company executive said on Saturday. It also expects to start mining bauxite in the state from October this year, said...
No alumina produced at RUSAL Guinea plant since April 3
UC RUSAL's Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea has not been in production since April 3, despite the suspension of a strike at the plant late last month, union and company officials said on Friday. Operations at Friguia have been repeatedly disrupted in recent months due to disputes between unions...
CAP bleeds billions
THE Government expects to lose billions of dollars this year due to Clarendon Alumina Production's (CAP) unstaunched bleeding. CAP will lose US$91 million ($7.9 billion) for the current financial year, according to spending estimates given by the Finance and Planning Minister Peter Phillips, last...
BHP Billiton project nears completion
CONSTRUCTION on the $3.4 billion BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina expansion project is now 98 per cent complete. “Contractors are now putting the final touches on the project’s construction phase, which will reach practical completion at the end of May,” a company spokesman said on Tuesday. “June...
NALCO plans new alumina projects in the 12th Five Year Plan
Mr Dinsha J Patel minister of mines (Independent Charge) of India informed that major projects proposed to be undertaken in the 12th Five Year Plan by NALCO are 1. Alumina refinery in Andhra Pradesh 2. Aluminium smelter and power plant at Sundargarh, Odisha 3. Alumina refinery in Gujarat 4. Wind...
Centre asks Odisha to furnish report on Lanjigarh Vedanta project
THE CENTRE has asked the Odisha government to furnish the physical verification report on diversion of forestland for the expansion of the Vedanta alumina project and its captive power plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district. It was on this ground that the Centre had earlier stopped Vedanta’s 2...
Alcoa Holds Refinery Expansion on Economic Ground
Alcoa Inc. (AA)’s plan to expand an alumina refinery in Western Australia remains on hold because of unfavorable economic conditions, the largest U.S. aluminum producer said after gaining approval to increase capacity. Alcoa received a five-year extension of an approval for the expansion of the...
Alcoa Inc. obtains five-year extension for its Wagerup alumina refinery expansion from West Australian government
The Western Australian state government said Wednesday it has granted the Australian unit of Alcoa Inc. (AA) a five-year extension for its proposed Wagerup alumina refinery expansion. The approval, by Environment Minister Bill Marmion, follows the Environmental Protection Authority's recommendation...
Ord River delivers JORC Resource upgrade at bauxite and alumina project
Highlighting some of Ord River's recent achievements, just last month the company delivered a 73.8% increase in the JORC Resource for the bauxite and alumina project in Laos, with a Bankable Feasibility Study the next step in progressing the project. The new Resource comprises 226 million tonnes at...
AP: Tribal minister wants ban on bauxite mining
Union Tribal Welfare Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo's letter to Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan seeking his intervention in stopping of bauxite mining in the tribal areas of Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam districts has created ripples in the state political circles. The mining of bauxite...
Bauxite mining should stop in Eastern Ghats, Union Tribal minister writes to Andhra governor
Union Tribal Welfare Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo's letter to Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan seeking his intervention in stopping of bauxite mining in the tribal areas of Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam districts has created ripples in the state political circles. The mining of bauxite...
Environment ministerNatarajan stops fresh Vedanta bid to mine Niyamgiri hills
Environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan nixed yet another attempt by Vedanta to get Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Odisha that Rahul Gandhi had stood up against, saving the Congress and its scion some blushes. On Tuesday, she ordered that the preliminary nod given by her ministry to the...
MoEF gives nod to conduct public hearing in Vedanta case
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has kept in abeyance its permission to Vedanta Aluminium for conduct of public hearing on the company's plan to expand the capacity of Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Kalahandi district from one million tonne to six million tonne after protests from...
Hindalco's Utkal Alumina refinery to start production by Dec
The Utkal Alumina project, a 1.5 million tonne per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery plant being set up by AV Birla owned Hindalco Industries at Kashipur in south Odisha's Rayagada district, is set to go into production by December this year. “Around 85 per cent of the construction work for the Rs...
Alcoa’s Western Australia smelters achieve record production
Alcoa says two of its alumina refineries in Western Australia have achieved record production and remain among its lowest-cost plants globally. Alcoa, which is closing and curtailing smelter capacity across its global operations in response to weak market conditions, has singled out Wagerup and...
Govt wants more smelters for Riau Islands, W. Kalimantan
The government is encouraging the development of aluminum refinery plants in Indonesia’s two largest bauxite producing provinces; Riau Islands and West Kalimantan. The provinces have a total bauxite reserve of 3.47 billion tons, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry’s data shows. As a...
