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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Vedanta recovers Vanadium from Red Mud, denies any discharge to river
In what appears to be technological break, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the Indian arm of London based Vedanta Resources Ltd, is recovering import-substitute Vanadium from effluent red-mud from its alumina refinery project at Lajigarh minting gold from its mud-to-money (MTM) programme. The...
Export price for domestic ore
Two decades after economic reforms and the junking of industrial licensing circa 1991, a remote corner of India , Lanjigarh, off Niyamgiri hills in southern Orissa, produces about as much alumina now as was the total national output then of the high-value commodity . The one-million...
Chalco no longer preferred tenderer as Queensland Government to call open tender for Aurukun bauxite development
THE Queensland Government has confirmed it will call an international tender for the development of the Aurukun bauxite resources in western Cape York, effectively snubbing the giant Chinese Aluminium Company (Chalco). Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade Andrew Fraser last night...
Chalco no longer preferred tenderer as Queensland Government to call open tender for Aurukun bauxite development
THE Queensland Government has confirmed it will call an international tender for the development of the Aurukun bauxite resources in western Cape York, effectively snubbing the giant Chinese Aluminium Company (Chalco). Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade Andrew Fraser last night...
Ma'aden's $1b bauxite refinery gets financing pledge
The Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Ma'aden) has received commitment letters to cover the required $1bn commercial bank financing for the development of Ma'aden Bauxite and Alumina Co's bauxite mine and alumina refinery, Saudi Gazette has reported. The period of the loans is 16 years and will be paid in...
Ma'aden's $1b bauxite refinery gets financing pledge
The Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Ma'aden) has received commitment letters to cover the required $1bn commercial bank financing for the development of Ma'aden Bauxite and Alumina Co's bauxite mine and alumina refinery, Saudi Gazette has reported. The period of the loans is 16 years and will be paid in...
International tender for Aurukun bauxite
The Queensland Government will conduct an international tender for the development rights of the Aurukun bauxite in Western Cape York., “The original tender process in 2005-06 was based on bidders committing to develop the bauxite resource as a bauxite mine as well as a new alumina refinery to...
International tender for Aurukun bauxite
The Queensland Government will conduct an international tender for the development rights of the Aurukun bauxite in Western Cape York., “The original tender process in 2005-06 was based on bidders committing to develop the bauxite resource as a bauxite mine as well as a new alumina refinery to...
Aughinish refinery group back in black after two years of losses
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
Aughinish refinery group back in black after two years of losses
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
Aughinish refinery group back in black after two years of losses
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
India Says No Green Nod for Vedanta's Bauxite Mine
Vedanta Resources PLC's bauxite mining project in eastern India hasn't received environmental clearance, the government said over the weekend. Reacting to a Times of India report that an environment panel has reviewed and cleared the project in Orissa state's remote Niyamgiri hills, India's...
Vedanta mine plan back on track?
Could Vedanta's aluminium refinery and bauxite mining project be looking at a second lease of life? A sub-committee of the environment ministry has given the go-ahead to mining the Niyamgiri hills, months after Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh had put the refinery project on hold for...
Chalco, Aurukun bauxite deal falls through: report
Negotiations between the Queensland government and Chinese aluminium giant Chalco over a $2.3 billion alumina refinery in the north of the state have broken down, with the Aurukun bauxite leases now set to be put up for sale later this year, according to The Australian Financial Review. According...
BHP Worsley expansion project set for delay
BHP Billiton said the cost of expanding its Worsley aluminium project in Western Australia has increased 58% to $US3bn and completion delayed at least six months. The complexity of expanding the refinery “has resulted in significantly lower levels of construction progress than previously...
Australian Stocks Struggle; BHP Alumina Project Cost Up $3 Billion
5:00 PM Sydney – Australian stocks struggled after crude oil plunged more than 4%. The commodities markets also trended lower. BHP said it will invest nearly $500 million in its potash mining operation in Canada and its alumina refinery operation in Western Australia will cost significantly more....
Carbon tax will hurt alumina refinery, company says
QAL told its employees the tax will hurt the company's international competitiveness. Project partner Rusal is expected to discuss the long-term future of its alumina refineries at a board meeting in Hong Kong today. Federal Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says the carbon price is not the cause...
Russian alumina giant warns on carbon tax
THE Australian arm of Russia's Rusal, controlled by billionaire oligarch Oleg Deripaska, has warned Canberra that the proposed carbon tax could jeopardise future investments, including in the huge Queensland Alumina refinery near Gladstone on the central Queensland coast. In a recent submission on...
