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...
Alcoa has moved its proposed acquisition of South32's bauxite, alumina and aluminium interests forward with a US SEC filing, with the transaction carrying an implied enterprise value of up to USD 5.6 billion. Alcoa Corporation has filed a Form S-4 registration statement with the US Securities and...
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On Tuesday, November 23, the Indian government-owned Coal India Limited (CIL) said that its board approved a pre-feasibility report for settling up an integrated aluminium project in Odisha. In December 2020, the miner received in-principle approval for stepping into the aluminium and solar sectors...
The 7th and current President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo on 24 th November 2021 restated his plan to discontinue the exports of all commodity raw materials that will ban the exports of bauxite in 2022, copper in 2023, and tin in 2024. "We are now calculating the possibility to stop exporting raw...
On 18 th November 2021, Deeptaman Mukherjee, the Director of Commodities for Vedanta’s Aluminium Business stated that annual aluminium production in India could attain five million tonnes in the next five to six years, which is an increase of around 25% from current levels. Mukherjee said based on...
The joint venture between Noble Group and Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) with a focus on bauxite mining and alumina production, Jamalco reported uniform progress in the plant's rebuilding efforts after the August 22 nd enormous fire that devastated its powerhouse. As informed by the world-class...
New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC, the parent company of Noranda Alumina and Noranda Bauxite, has officially announced the rebranding of its business to the Atlantic Alumina Company (ATALCO). The company will rebrand all its metallurgical and non-metallurgical bauxite and alumina operations in a staged...
Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer outside China, has announced its operating results for the third quarter of 2021, ended September 30. The company revealed that its bauxite production dropped 1.1 per cent Q-o-Q from 3.836 million tonnes to 3.792 million tonnes in 3Q2021. In total nine...
On Friday, October 22, Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) made it public that MYTILINEOS has been successfully accredited against the ASI Performance Standard to carry out production, sourcing, stewardship of aluminium for their Bauxite mining activities at the Delphi Distomon site. The...
According to reports, the Government of India informed the state of Andhra Pradesh that it has no involvement in the international arbitration brought by the Ras-Al-Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA) over the cancellation of a Bauxite supply deal between Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development...
According to the third-quarter results of 2021 (ended on September 30) released by Rio Tinto, the company’s bauxite production stood at 13.967 million tonnes, up by 2 per cent quarter-on-quarter but down by 3 per cent on the year due to equipment reliability issues and overruns on planned shutdowns...
On Thursday, October 7, a public hearing was held at Dharada village located under Koraput’s Lakshmipur tehsil. The public hearing was organised by the Odisha State Pollution Control Board (OPSCB) for the establishment of Hindalco’s 3 million tonne capacity alumina refinery and 150 MW capacity...
Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd (HLIB) has shown confidence about Press Metal Aluminium Bhd’s earnings prospects in the next 12-18 months. The bank anticipates that the Malaysia aluminium extrusion manufacturer and traders’ earnings to be buoyed by the bullish LME aluminium benchmark price trend...
The alumina refineries in Queensland, Australia is all set in motion to enter full-scale trials with a new technology that might transpose the bauxite residue red mud to soil-like material competent of laying on plant life. As reported by the researchers who are developing the new system, stated...
On Tuesday, October 5, Coal India Limited (CIL), an Indian government-owned coal mining and refining corporation, said that its pre-feasibility report for an integrated Greenfield aluminium project in Odisha received an approval from the board. So, the company will now start conducting a...
Vedanta Limited on Monday announced that the alumina production in Lanjigarh refinery increased by 11 percent to close at 511,000 tonnes in the second quarter of FY2022. "The Lanjigarh refinery produced 511,000 tonnes of alumina in Q2 FY22, 6 per cent higher as compared to Q1 FY22 and 11 per cent...
This week a lot had happened in the Alumina industry. On Monday, September 27, the average alumina spot price had increased by RMB 126 per tonne to settle at RMB 3,733 per tonne. For September 28, the average alumina spot price was recorded at RMB 3,744 and for September 29, the spot price stood at...
Mining Minister Robert Montage informed the House of Representatives that the August 22 fire breakout in the Jamalco alumina refinery has caused the company lose US$500,000 per day. This is based on the production cost of US$150 per tonnes of alumina at a production rate of 3,170 tonnes everyday....
On 30th October 2021, Sridhar Patra, the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Nalco stated that the pre-project ventures like securing green clearance for the execution of the mining lease of Pottangi bauxite mines in Koraput district of Odisha and construction of an 18-km overland conveyor are...
The mining and transport minister of Jamaica, Robert Montague stated that the Government finalised an agreement with Concord Resources Holding Limited for the reinstatement of the bauxite production levy on the export of aluminium ore. On 29th September 2021, Montague said to the House of...
