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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Sesa Sterlite to spend Rs 8,000 crore on expansion
Sesa Sterlite, a Vedanta group company, will spend up to Rs 8,000 crore in the next three to four years to expand its Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, after it received consent from villagers last week, a senior official, who declined to be named, said. Sesa Sterlite recently got villagers' approval...
Vedanta Aluminium gets village’s nod to expand refinery
Vedanta Aluminium, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, moved closer to raising its alumina refining capacity by six fold from 1 million tonnes per year (tpy) after villagers near the plant voiced no objection to the expansion. Most of the nearly 2,000 people present on Wednesday at the public...
Aughinish Alumina Refinery ready to fully switch to gas
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces the completion of the work to allow the Aughinish alumina refinery, Europe’s largest alumina producer, switch from heavy fuel oil to gas as its main energy source. This will reduce the sites overall environmental footprint, coupled with cash...
Odisha government to soon grant laterite deposits to Vedanta's alumina project
In what should serve as a relief for Anil Agarwal's alumina project, the Odisha government will soon grant three laterite deposits that can partially feed the company's controversial refinery in Kalahandi. Raw material uncertainty has plagued Vedanta Aluminium, now merged with Sesa Sterlite, ever...
Project Monitoring Group to take up the issue of bauxite mining revival in AP
The Centre’s Project Monitoring Group (PMG) will soon take up the issue of stalled process of bauxite mining in Andhra Pradesh, state government officials said here today. The clearances sought for mining of bauxite ore by the state-owned AP Mining Development Corporation (APMDC) was kept in...
Ma’aden targets Sept to start aluminium smelter in Alcoa JV
Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) announced that 1st September 2014 would be the target date for the beginning of the commercial production of the Aluminum Smelter at its subsidiary Ma’aden Aluminum Company. Ma’aden Aluminum Company is a joint venture (JV) between Saudi Arabian Mining Company...
Rusal exploring ethane for Alpart plant
UC RUSAL is considering the use of ethane to fire its 1.7- million tonne alumina refinery in Jamaica's southwestern parish of St Elizabeth. The plant has been closed for five years, largely because of low market price for its product and high production costs, which is primarily because of the...
RUSAL wins case against Republic of Guinea for Friguia alumina complex
Global aluminium producer RUSAL announced today that it has won a case with regards to share purchase of the Friguia bauxite and alumina complex against the Republic of Guinea. Rusal bought over the Friguia production complex, which includes a bauxite mine, an alumina refinery and a railway network...
GE looks to offer power plant IPO
A $1.2 billion power plant in Western Australia linked to one of the world’s largest alumina refineries owned by BHP Billiton is being positioned for an initial public offering. General Electric’s Worsley multi-fuel cogeneration plant near Collie, 189km southeast of Perth, was built to meet the...
Queensland Bauxite: South Johnstone bauxite confirmed as gibbsitic
Queensland Bauxite has revealed that bauxite from South Johnstone in Queensland consists of gibbsite of between 36-48% level. This is significant as the gibbsite mineral readily dissolves at low temperatures and pressures at the alumina refinery stage (the Bayer process). Hence it is easier and...
Sale of Jamalco part of global cuts being made by Alcoa
The plan by US-based Alcoa to divest its Jamaica operations forms part of its global transformation that will also see it slash production in Brazil and Australia, management indicated. It aims to contain costs which at times exceed revenues at the global company. "To further optimise the Alumina...
Rusal grab back a worthy idea
We can only assume that the Simpson Miller administration's notice of intent to rescind UC Rusal's bauxite mining concessions for two of its Jamaican alumina refineries - Alpart and Kirkvine - is a strategic move aimed primarily at enhancing its efforts at enticing Chinese interests to the sector....
Pará investment boom: Alumina, iron projects big winners
The major projects benefiting from mining sector investment in Brazil's Pará state are Vale's Carajás Serra Sul S11D and Votorantim Metais'(VM) Alumina Rondon. That's according to Pará state's minerals industry association, Simineral. The association's president, José Fernando Gomes Júnior, told...
Vedanta seeks alternative mine for Lanjigarh refinery
After failing to get local gram panchayats’ nod for mining bauxite in Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Resources is now engaging with the Odisha government for allotment of mines elsewhere besides considering procuring bauxite from alternative sources. The Niyamgiri hill area is one of the sources in...
Emirates Global aluminium project clears Guinea hurdle
Guinea's parliament has approved amendments in a deal with Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) which will see the start of bauxite production in 2017 and the construction of a 2-million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery from 2018. "The National Assembly unanimously adopted the amendment of Global Alumina...
Indonesian miners delay plans of alumina refinery on legal uncertainty
The plans of building alumina refineries by bauxite producers in Indonesia are getting delayed due to legal uncertainty over export ban that was imposed nearly five months ago, said government & industry officials. The Constitutional Court of Indonesia has to still decide on a legal challenge...
Sesa-Sterlite to focus on bauxite sourcing, Goa mining this fiscal
Tom Albanese, the newly appointed chief executive officer of Sesa Sterlite, has identified sourcing bauxite for its aluminium operations and resumption of mining in Goa as some of his top operational priorities for the current fiscal, in the company's annual report for 2013-14. Sesa Sterlite, the...
AWAC to pursue sale of its stake in Jamalco
Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals Signs Letter of Intent to Pursue Sale of its Stake in Jamalco Alcoa confirms that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent with Noble Resources UK Limited to pursue a sale of its ownership stake in Alcoa Minerals of Jamaica, L.L.C (AMJ), which operates the...
