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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Suriname mega projects to create around 5,000 jobs – minister
In the coming three years, around 5000 new jobs will be created. Officially, some 1400 jobseekers are registered with the Labor Ministry (ATM). Yet ATM Minister Ginmardo Kromosoeto does not expect these new jobs to put unemployment levels at zero. The expansion of the aluminum refinery will create...
Vedanta to invest Rs 10,000 cr more to complete Jharsuguda power projects
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources PLC, will invest about Rs 10,000 crore to complete its aluminium smelter and independent power plants at Jharsuguda. The company has so far invested around Rs 40,000-crore in its Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda projects in Orissa....
Vedanta to invest Rs 10,000 cr more to complete Jharsuguda power projects
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources PLC, will invest about Rs 10,000 crore to complete its aluminium smelter and independent power plants at Jharsuguda. The company has so far invested around Rs 40,000-crore in its Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda projects in Orissa....
Vedanta to invest Rs 10,000 cr more to complete Jharsuguda power projects
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources PLC, will invest about Rs 10,000 crore to complete its aluminium smelter and independent power plants at Jharsuguda. The company has so far invested around Rs 40,000-crore in its Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda projects in Orissa....
Ormet begins restart of alumina refinery in Louisiana
Reuters reported that US aluminum producer Ormet Corporation has begun to restart its idled alumina refinery in Burnside, La. and expects to be producing the intermediate material for making aluminum metal in the Q4. Mr Mike Tanchuk president and CEO Ormet said that the Burnside alumina refinery...
Vedanta organizes Green March program in Lanjigarh on World Environment Day
Orissa Diary reported that loud slogans to care environment and to plant trees were heard from hundreds of school children and local leaders of Lanjigarh periphery area who participated in a Green March organized by Vedanta Aluminum Limited, Lanjigarh to mark the World Environment Day 2011. Dr...
RSB Industries gets nod for alumina refinery in Orissa
RSB Industries, the holding company of a low profile auto component manufacturing group headquartered in Pune is planning to enter the aluminium refining and smelting sector in Orissa. The promoters appear unfazed by the delays other projects are facing in that mineral rich state. The group's main...
RSB Industries gets nod for alumina refinery in Orissa
RSB Industries, the holding company of a low profile auto component manufacturing group headquartered in Pune is planning to enter the aluminium refining and smelting sector in Orissa. The promoters appear unfazed by the delays other projects are facing in that mineral rich state. The group's main...
Pipeline may need clean out
RIO Tinto Alcan's Yarwun refinery is preparing for the possibility that an important pipeline may require cleaning in the next fortnight. The refinery's general manager of operations Mike Dunstan contacted The Observer on Wednesday to inform the public about the situation. He said Rio Tinto Alcan...
Pipeline may need clean out
RIO Tinto Alcan's Yarwun refinery is preparing for the possibility that an important pipeline may require cleaning in the next fortnight. The refinery's general manager of operations Mike Dunstan contacted The Observer on Wednesday to inform the public about the situation. He said Rio Tinto Alcan...
Ord River Resources reports SARCO signs EPC MOU for Laos alumina refinery
Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) has reported that Sino Australian Resources Co., Ltd (SARCO) has entered into an agreement with China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd (NFC) for a future engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract. The Memorandum of...
Transfield Services Preferred Tenderer To Alcoa
Transfield Services (TSE) has been awarded preferred tenderer status for a new A$66 million contract with Alcoa of Australia to provide maintenance services at its Pinjarra alumina refinery in Western Australia. Under the contract Transfield Services will also be invited to competitively tender for...
Hindalco to start Utkal project before June 2012
Aditya Birla group flagship Hindalco Industries plans to commence operations at its greenfield Utkal Alumina project before June 2012. The 1.5 million tonne alumina refinery project, started as a Rs4,400 crore joint venture between Norsk Hydro, Alcan and Indal (earlier promoted by Alcan) in 1992,...
Hindalco to start Utkal project before June 2012
Aditya Birla group flagship Hindalco Industries plans to commence operations at its greenfield Utkal Alumina project before June 2012. The 1.5 million tonne alumina refinery project, started as a Rs4,400 crore joint venture between Norsk Hydro, Alcan and Indal (earlier promoted by Alcan) in 1992,...
Ord River Resources announces project financing proposal received for SARCO alumina refinery in Laos
China Minsheng Banking Corporation has stated in a letter of proposal to Sino Australian Resources, it is the bank’s intention to provide the necessary project financing SARCO requires. SARCO has proposed building USD 600 million, 600,000 tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery in Laos. The large...
China ministry orders East Hope alumina units in Henan to shut
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has ordered East Hope Group's alumina refinery in Henan province to shut down production facilities that had not been approved. The ministry said East Hope (Sanmenxia) Aluminium, the alumina arm of the large aluminium and agricultural products group in...
Ord River Resources reports project financing proposal received for SARCO alumina refinery in Laos
Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) has achieved a major milestone for the production development of the company. China Minsheng Banking Corporation (CMBC) has stated in a letter of proposal to Sino Australian Resources (SARCO), “It is the bank’s intention to provide the necessary project financing...
Vedanta Denies Toxic Waste Leak
Last Wednesday, India Real Time wrote that villagers in Lanjigarh in the eastern state of Orissa were complaining that toxic waste was leaking from a pond belonging to Vedanta Aluminium Ltd.’s local alumina refinery into a nearby river. The company, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC,...
