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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Alpart alumina refinery- technical and equipment auditor at work
A technical and equipment infrastructure review of the alumina refinery, Rusal Alpart Jamaica, is being conducted as part of pre-preparatory work for the plant’s scheduled reopening in December 2016. Audit representatives from UC Rusal's Moscow office, and elsewhere in Europe and Australia are...
Vedanta releases production updates for Q2 and H1 ended 30 Sept 2015
Vedanta Resources Plc., the diversified metals and minerals conglomerate, announced its production results for the second quarter and half year ended 30 September 2015 on Friday, October 10. The company reported stable volumes from the existing smelters; updated on cost reduction initiatives that...
Rio Tinto doubles capacity at its Yarwun alumina refinery
Rio Tinto Alcan, one of the world's leading mineral and metal conglomerates, is in the process of doubling the capacity of the alumina refinery at Yarwun. The construction work is almost near completion. The official opening ceremony of the upgarded section took place recently. Campbell Newman, the...
List of bauxite mines on auction pruned by Indian government
The list of aluminium ore mines to be auctioned has been pruned. The revised list contains much lesser number of bauxite mines than what was decided earlier. It is quite a setback for the Indian aluminium industry. Against the plan to auction about 90 major mineral mines in 2015-16, the mines...
Rusal Aughinish back to pre-tax losses despite revenue rise
The largest alumina refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish, last year went back into the red to record pre-tax losses of $12.2m (€10.8m). The loss came despite revenues having increased by $22m from $607.8m to $629m. Based on the Snannon estuary, the principal activity of Limerick Alumina Refining Ltd...
Indonesia's Antam in talks with CDB for an alumina refinery project loan
Aneka Tambang (Antam), the leading state-owned diversified mining company of Indonesia, is in talks with China Development Bank for a loan of $1.5 billion for an alumina refinery project that is currently being undertaken in the state. SOE Minister Rini Soemarno told on Tuesday, October 6, "We are...
Alcoa to scale up production at its Pinjarra alumina refinery
Alcoa has flagged a move to expand production at its Pinjarra refinery by up to 20 per cent, winning environmental approval to push the facility’s total alumina output to five million tonnes a year. The Environmental Protection Authority last month ticked off on an Alcoa application to amend...
Utkal Alumina updates on its recently approved expansion plans
The High Level Clearance Authority (HLCA), the highest body to approve investment proposals, has approved seven projects with investments totaling to INR 41,900 crore. The projects that got the HLCA's nod include a mix of new as well as existing projects that proposed to ramp up their capacities....
Locals request Vedanta to run Lanjigarh alumina plant
A representation of Ambadola residents went to Lanjigarh yesterday to discuss Vedanta COO on the closure of Vedanta’s Alumina refinery in absence of bauxite security. Previously People in large numbers made the demonstrations on Save Vedanta. Showing their displeasure, locals of Ambadola on the...
Vedanta looking to clinch domestic deals to cut alumina imports
After degrading capacity of its one million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh by 35%, Vedanta is looking at options to source alumina from the domestic market to cut its dependence on high cost alumina imports. To feed its smelting unit at Jharsuguda, Vedanta is in talks with Aditya Birla Group...
Odisha backs L&T bid for bauxite deposits, sends DGPS report
Engineering giant Larsen & Toubro's (L&T) bid to secure Kutrumali and Sijimali bauxite deposits has got a major breakthrough with the Odisha government sending the DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) survey report on the mines to the Union mines ministry. "The Centre had asked for DGPS...
Nalco plans INR 5,500 crore expansion at its Damanjodi alumina refinery
Armed with two coal blocks the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) is planning to go for third phase expansion of its refinery at Damanjodi with an investment of nearly INR 5,500 crore. The Navratna PSU is waiting for the state government's consent for allocation of Pottangi mines, company CMD T K...
Malaysia replaced Australia as China’s top bauxite supplier in August
Malaysia replaced Australia as China’s top bauxite supplier in August due to its overwhelming price attractiveness. China imported 2.01 million tonnes of bauxite from Malaysia in August, 45% of total imports, customs data showed. Average CIF price of Malaysian bauxite was $ 45.65 per tonne in...
Nalco committed to setting up second smelter unit in Odisha
The State-run National Aluminium Company Limited on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment on setting up of the second smelter and power complex at Odisha’s Sundargarh at estimated cost of Rs. 22,000 crore. “A smelter unit of 0.5 MTPA with a power plant of 1050 MW capacity at a cost of Rs.22,000 crore...
Synergy to sell surplus coal to Worsley alumina refinery
West Australian Government-owned electricity generator Synergy has reached an agreement to sell surplus coal to the operators of a South West alumina refinery plagued by supply issues. The deal between Synergy and the operators of the Worsley alumina refinery, owned by South 32, was dubbed a...
OMC writes to environment ministry seeking guidance on Niyamgiri bauxite deposit
The Odisha government hasn't quite relinquished its right to mine the controversial Niyamgiri bauxite deposit, originally identified to supply ore to Vedanta Resources' nearby alumina refinery. State-owned Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), which was granted mining rights for 30 years in 2004, has...
Problems galore for Vedanta's Lanjigarh refinery
Vedanta's decision to close its loss-making Lanjigarh refinery is triggering varied reactions across the state. While on one hand Union ministry's recommendation to grant mining lease (ML) over Karlapat bauxite mines to feed the dying refinery stands thwarted in the face of opposition from the...
Alcoa to pare down remaining Suralco Refining capacity
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa announced the curtailment of Suralco’s remaining 887,000 metric tons per year of alumina refining capacity as discussions continue with the Government of Suriname on preserving the country’s bauxite and refining industry. The refinery is scheduled to be idled by...
