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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Bauxite Resources exploration and refinery JV conditions precedent satisfied
...Bauxite Resources Limited has signed an agreement with Yankuang Corporation to confirm that all the conditions precedent in the Bauxite Resource JV and Alumina Refinery JV have been satisfied. The two joint ventures will have an official Commencement Date of April 1st 2011. The Conditions...
Production unaffected at RUSAL Friguia alumina in Guinea
.....Reuters reported that a group of contracted workers downed tools at RUSAL's 640,000 tonne per year Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea but the production was unaffected.
Vedanta Aluminium to raise Rs 16000 crore for Orissa project
...Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the Orissa government has assured Vedanta of a bauxite mine in the state by April. Vedanta Aluminium has tied up funds for...
Vedanta Aluminium to raise Rs 16000 crore for Orissa project
...Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the Orissa government has assured Vedanta of a bauxite mine in the state by April. Vedanta Aluminium has tied up funds for...
Vedanta Aluminium to raise Rs 16000 crore for Orissa project
...Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the Orissa government has assured Vedanta of a bauxite mine in the state by April. Vedanta Aluminium has tied up funds for...
Vedanta Aluminium to raise Rs 16000 crore for Orissa project
...Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Aluminium is in the process of raising Rs 16000 crore for its aluminium project in Orissa, sources with direct knowledge said. Another source said the Orissa government has assured Vedanta of a bauxite mine in the state by April. Vedanta Aluminium has tied up funds for...
MENA unrest - UC RUSAL Friguia alumina refinery in Libya meets strike
...Reportedly, United Company Russian Aluminum’s Friguia alumina refinery in Libya with the annual output of 640,000 tonnes has met the strike hold by a group of contract workers on Tuesday...
Bauxite finalises JV with China partner
...Bauxite Resources has finalised its joint venture with China-based Yankuang Corporation, which will now proceed with planning to construct an alumina refinery in the South West. ..
Niyamgiri vs Chiria
...hiria is essential for the future of SAIL as nearly 40% of the company’s requirement of iron ore over the next 50 years is likely to be met from Chiria (one of the arguments used against Vedanta was that the Niyamgiri mines would have been able to provide for only four years of supplies for the...
Vinacomin sees Vietnam's maiden alumina refinery ready in June
... Work on Vietnam's maiden alumina refinery is expected to be completed in June, a source at project owner Vinacomin said Wednesday. The 600,000 mt/year refinery in Lam Dong province in the country's south is being built by state-owned Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, or...
NALCO signs MoU for 2011-12 for achieving excellent rating
...National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO), India's largest producer and exporter of alumina and aluminium, on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the union ministry of mines, for the financial year 2011-12 with a projected higher production of 63 lakh tons of bauxite and 21...
MoEF seeks fresh application on Vedanta expansion
...Despite a stay on the proposed expansion of Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district, the Centre has now sought a fresh application for the purpose from the state...
MoEF seeks fresh application on Vedanta expansion
...Despite a stay on the proposed expansion of Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa's Kalahandi district, the Centre has now sought a fresh application for the purpose from the state...
NALCO’s production capacity to go up to 2.1 MTPA by month-end
...State-run NALCO’s alumina refinery capacity will be augmented to 2.1 million tonnes per annum by this month-end and the project is on time, Parliament was informed on Monday...
Rusal Says Ukraine Red Dust Cloud Poses No Environmental Threat
...A red dust cloud that covered two villages in southern Ukraine poses “no threat to the environmental situation” in the city of Nikolaev, United Company Rusal said today. After a sharp drop in temperature in Ukraine’s southern Nikolaev region, the sludge fields of the Nikolaev alumina refinery...
Ecology Ministry charges Mykolaiv Alumina Refinery with environmental pollution
...The Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry of Ukraine is planning to call for charges to be made against Mykolaiv Alumina Refinery, which is 100% controlled by RUSAL (Russia), for environment pollution...
Jamaica: UC Rusal to reopen bauxite refinery?
... Jamaica's mining minister says a Russian-owned aluminum company is restarting operations at a bauxite refinery that it closed nearly two years ago. ...
Alcoa seeks 5 year relief for Wagerup
... West Australian reported that Alcoa is asking the WA Government for a 5 year approvals relief as the aluminum giant tries to resurrect the USD 2.2 billion expansion of its world class Wagerup alumina refinery south of Perth. The much hyped project was shelved indefinitely just over 2 years ago...
