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 mining in Karlapat area to save Lanjigarh refinery faces opposition
Vedanta’s doomed Lanjigarh alumina refinery which has been facing severe bauxite ore shortage has little hope of survival as the efforts to mine bauxite from the proposed Karlapat area in Odisha’s Kalahandi district face opposition from tribal organizations like Lok Sangram Manch (LSM) and...
Outotec inaugurates dewatering technology centre in Finland
Outotec has established a dewatering technology centre in Lappeenranta, Finland to develop new products, processes and services for solid-liquid separation and raw material reuse for the entire life cycle of processing plants. Tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the...
Nalco's INR 30,000 cr investment plans include one million tonne alumina refinery in Odisha
Aluminium major National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) on Tuesday said it would invest INR 30,000 crore in Odisha over next few years to expand production capacity and create more job opportunities in the state. The announcement comes at a time when global metal market is witnessing a slowdown with...
35,000 tonnes of bauxite awaits shipment at Rusal’s Alpart operations
After a gap of six years, UC Rusal Alpart bauxite/alumina operations have finally swung into action. A cargo ship- Vyritsa is being loaded with 35,000 tonnes of bauxite at Alpart’s Port Kaiser facility and is scheduled to leave for Ukraine later this week. “This is the first major economic activity...
Alcoa considers Wagerup option
Aluminium giant Alcoa is considering whether to keep alive a long-held plan for a multi-billion dollar expansion of its Wagerup alumina refinery. Senior executives are understood to be trying to mount a case for seeking a second extension to a crucial WA Government environmental approval that...
Vedanta to ramp up aluminium output at Odisha plant by 60%
In a move that could be seen as a paradox to Vedanta's move to shut down its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in the backdrop fall in global aluminium prices and lack of bauxite linkage, the company has initiated the process of stepping up aluminium production at its Jharsuguda smelter in Odisha. The...
Vedanta urges Odisha government to secure bauxite for refinery survival
Vedanta, on Thursday September 3, urged the Odisha government to secure bauxite in order to make its Kalahandi-based refinery survive against all odds in the international aluminium market. "Our submission before the state government is very clear. We have told them...Please secure bauxite as early...
Odisha Mining Corporation to fast track bauxite mining to rescue Vedanta refinery
In its bid to rescue Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, the Odisha government has put its mining PSU Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) on the job to start mining from Karlapat mines at the earliest. Timelines have been set to achieve different critical milestones to commence bauxite mining from...
Vedanta CEO to meet Odisha CM to request for bauxite mines
Tom Albanese, Chief Executive Officer, Vedanta Resources Plc, is scheduled to meet Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday to request for making bauxite available to the company's Lanjigarh alumina refinery that is otherwise headed for a shutdown. The company has said repeatedly in the...
Vedanta crisis: Odisha to nudge Nalco, Hindalco for interim bauxite supplies
Waking up to acute raw material crisis faced by Vedanta to run its Lanjigarh alumina refinery, the state government has decided to push aluminium producers like National Aluminium Company (Nalco) and Aditya Birla Group promoted Hindalco Industries to make arrangements for interim bauxite supplies....
Noranda announces initial intercontinental alumina shipment to Chinese aluminum smelter
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation announced today that it has completed a 31,000 metric tonne shipment of smelter grade alumina from its alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana to an aluminum smelter in China. This shipment, which is part of a multi-shipment export arrangement at market prices,...
Vedanta to halve output at Lanjigarh alumina refinery, job cuts to follow
Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its one- million-tonne-a-year alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa state in about two months, a senior executive said, due mainly to acute shortage of raw material bauxite and weak LME aluminium prices. Job cuts at the refinery, which employs about 2,000 people,...
Vedanta to shutdown Lanjigarh refinery on non-availability of bauxite
Non-availability of bauxite from Odisha and the prevailing turmoil in global aluminium prices have forced Vedanta to initiate the process of shutting down its one-million tonne a year alumina refinery at Lanjigarh. “We ran this unit with all commitment for nearly a decade, despite heavy odds. But...
Hindalco Industries Ltd clarifies on INR 7500 crore invesments
The Exchange had sought clarification from Hindalco Industries Ltd with respect to news article appearing in Financial Express on August 15, 2015 titled "Birla invests INR 7,500 cr in Odisha refinery". Hindalco Industries Ltd has replied stating that Utkal Alumina International Ltd (Utkal) is our...
Nalco seeks immediate Pottangi bauxite mine lease
The chairman and managing director of National Aluminium Company (NALCO) P K Chand urged upon Odisha government to grant the lease of Pottangi bauxite mine on an immediate basis. He put emphasis on the fact that the mine was direly needed by the Navaratna PSU in order to expedite its expansion...
Utkal Alumina gets government approval for its expansion plans
Odisha government has approved the expansion plans for Utkal Alumina Ltd, an Aditya Birla group firm and Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd (BPSL) in a meeting today. This is considered to be a step towards boosting the industrialization in the state of Odisha. "The State Level Single Window Clearance...
UC Rusal to consider Jamaican energy options for its alumina refineries
Phillip Paulwell, Jamaica's Mining Minister, has disclosed that UC Rusal, the Russian aluminium conglomerate, will soon be meeting with the Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET) to give a report on energy projects it is contemplating for its alumina refineries in Jamaica. UC Rusal is...
Centre insists on DGPS survey before grant of bauxite leases to L&T
The Union Mines Ministry has stressed on Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) survey of Kutrumali and Sijimali bauxite deposits before grant of mining lease (ML) to engineering & construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T). "Apart from the survey, there is no other roadblock for L&T to get...
