
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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RUSAL revives alumina project in Russia's north
...The world's top aluminium producer, Russia's UC RUSAL (0486.HK: Quote), will revive a project to build a refinery of intermediate product alumina in the country's north, it said in a statement seen by Reuters on Thursday...

India's Hindalco to start up Orissa alumina refinery Sep 2011
...India's Hindalco Industries expects to start up its new alumina refinery in the state of Orissa in September 2011, with commercial sales to begin from December, company sources said Tuesday...

Vedanata seeks bauxite from within Orissa
...Within weeks of being denied permission to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Reources on Thursday sought the mineral from Orissa itself to feed its aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh saying importing the raw material from other states is expensive...

UAIL's Rs 7,000 cr alumina plant to go on stream next year
...The Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, hopes to start production from its 1.5 million tonne alumina refinery, being set up at a cost of Rs 7,000 crore near Kasipur in Orissa’s Rayagada district, in the second quarter of next year...

Vedanta's silent independent directors
...Vedanta Resources had environment clearance to set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. But, it went ahead with expanding its capacity six-fold without any approvals. The N C Saxena Committee report, which chronicles a series of such violations by the company, raises the...

Vedanta's silent independent directors
...Vedanta Resources had environment clearance to set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa. But, it went ahead with expanding its capacity six-fold without any approvals. The N C Saxena Committee report, which chronicles a series of such violations by the company, raises the...

B G Verghese: Stop Vedanta, stop India?
...Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh’s order stopping Vedanta Aluminium and the Orissa Mining Corporation from mining bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills to feed the company’s Lanjigarh aluminum refinery plant located in one of the country’s poorest districts in the name of tribal...

Alcoa, Maaden award $275 mln Saudi plant contracts | Reuters
... with a bauxite mine at Ba'aitha as well as an alumina refinery, ... International Financing Review · Project Finance International ...

Vedanta Aluminium Halts Plant Expansion in Orissa
...In response to the Indian Government’s actions Vedanta Aluminium has stopped the expansion of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa...

Global Alumina Releases Second Quarter 2010 Results
...Global Alumina Corporation (TSX: GLA.U) (the "Company" or "Global Alumina"), a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project")...

Global Alumina Releases Second Quarter 2010 Results
...Global Alumina Corporation (TSX: GLA.U) (the "Company" or "Global Alumina"), a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project")...

Utkal Alumina to set up1.5 MTPA refinery in Orissa
... Hindalco today said its 100 per cent subsidiary Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) is setting up a 1.5 million tonnes per annum alumina refinery in Rayagoda district of Orissa...

Hindalco arm ties up Rs 4,906 cr debt for Orissa project
...Leading aluminium producer Hindalco today said its subsidiary Utkal Alumina has tied up Rs 4,906 crore debt from a group of banks for its refinery project in Orissa...

India's Hindalco unit to set up <em>alumina</em> refinery | Reuters
... BO) said on Tuesday one of its units is setting up a 1.5 mtpa alumina refinery in the eastern state of Orissa. The project will feed the ...

Ashapura Minechem Ltd, is setting up 1 million tpa alumina refinery in Kutch,
...Ashapura Aluminium Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ashapura Minechem Ltd, is setting up 1 million tpa alumina refinery in Kutch, Gujarat. CHALIECO the designing arm of CHALCO, China is the technology supplier for the project. The basic engineering has been completed and a contract for the...

Saudi aluminium plant construction begins
...Work on the $10 billion plant, consisting of a bauxite mine at Ba'aitha and an alumina refinery, aluminum smelter and rolling mill at Ras Az Zawr, began with initial ground breaking services last week. The plant is due for completion in 2013 and will provide the kingdom with a supply of cost...

Global Alumina Announces Signing of Key Agreements Among Guinea Alumina Corporation, The Republic of Guinea and Compagnie des Bauxite de Guinee
... Global Alumina Corporation (TSX: GLA.U) (the "Company" or "Global Alumina"), a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project"), announced that Guinea Alumina...

AMM Alcoas Alumar ramp-up to full speed nine months late - Metal <b>...</b>
... Alcoa Inc.'s majority-owned Cons?rcio de Aluminio do Maranh?o (Alumar) alumina refinery in S?o Luis, Brazil, is operating at nearly 76 ...

