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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Ohio regulator rejects Ormet's request for subsidized power
Ohio's state utility regulator on Wednesday rejected Ormet Corp's appeal for an expedited decision on the aluminum producer's request for lower electricity rates, which it said are crucial to operating its aluminum smelter and alumina refinery. The ruling by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio...
Vedanta Aluminium's fate lies in the hands of a local tribe
For at least five years now, a tribe in India’s eastern state of Odisha has being steadfastly opposing the mining of bauxite by Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), a unit of the multinational Vedanta Resources run by billionaire Anil Agarwal. The opposition has been so fervent that the...
Fed Govt has new gas pipeline plans for Gove Refinery
While residents at Nhulunbuy are fearing for their future after Chief Minister Adam Giles announced the Northern Territory government would retreated from an agreement to provide gas to help save Gove’s Rio Tinto alumina refinery, businesses in the Katherine region are worried about the economic...
Ghana to create 2.3 million jobs in Aluminium sector
Ghana is set to create more than 2.3 Million jobs under the Integrated Aluminium Project, which has been described as the key to growing the economy with a capital injection of about 8billion dollars. Under the Integrated Aluminium Project, an Aluminium refinery is to be constructed to refine the...
No solution in sight for Vedanta's Niyamgiri bauxite mining project
Amid the overwhelming opposition to the Niyamgiri bauxite mining project at the recently held gram sabhas, Vedanta Aluminium is in a quandary on a sustainable alternative for its one-million-tonne Lanjigarh refinery. Though the company has applied for prospecting licences and mining leases at 26...
Anrak bracing up to commission refinery on Vedanta model
Anrak Aluminium Limited (AAL), which has almost completed work on its 1.5 million alumina refinery at Rachapalle in Makavarapalem mandal, about 100 km from here, is exploring various options to source bauxite ore with no indications to allow AP Mining Development Corporation to take up mining in...
Jolt for Vedanta as mining in Niyamgiri Hills voted out by 7 villages
Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred. Failure to source bauxite from within the state might force the London-listed company to...
Vedanta Alumina might ask for alternative mining site
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Alumina, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, might ask the Odisha state government for a alternative mining site after its proposed mining project in the Niyamgiri hills range suffered a fresh setback today. The seventh village, of the total 12, today rejected the...
Fifth village council too votes against Niyamgiri mining
The fifth gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining project, held at Talberi village in Kalahandi district on Thursday, followed the pattern of the previous four gram sabhas and rejected the proposal outright, asserting socio-cultural and religious rights over the Niyamagiri hill. Out of 15 eligible...
Northern Territory Government wants new gas supply deal for Gove refinery
The Northern Territory Government has reneged on a proposed deal to supply gas to Rio Tinto's Gove alumina refinery. Earlier this year, the Government offered 300 petajoules of gas over 10 years from its domestic supply source to save the refinery, operated by Rio subsidiary Pacific Aluminium. Rio...
Fourth village Council too rejects Niyamgiri mining plan
The villagers of Kunakeda, a Dongaria Kondh village in Kalahandi district, today unanimously rejected the proposal for mining in Niyamgiri, claiming community and religious rights over the entire hill range. It was the fourth out of 12 palli sabhas to be held in Rayagada (7 villages) and Kalahandi...
BJP urges government to involve Odisha villages in mining decision
BJP vice president Jual Oram Tuesday urged the government to hold gram sabhas (meetings) in all villages in Odisha's Niyamgiri hills to take a decision on the bauxite mining project in the region. The former MP said he met Union Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo in New Delhi Monday and...
The future of the gas to Gove pipeline may once again be in doubt
The future of the gas to Gove pipeline may once again be in doubt as nobody wants to pay for its construction. The NT Government gave up a decade's worth of cheap public gas to mining giant Rio Tinto in February after the company threatened to shut the Gove alumina refinery and sack 800 people. But...
Vedanta Aluminium optimistic of getting bauxite from Odisha
Days after restarting its refinery in Odisha's Kalahandi district following a seven-month shutdown due to a bauxite scarcity, Vedanta Aluminium Limited is optimistic about getting the ore from the state itself. "If aluminium industries cannot survive in Odisha, having huge bauxite reserves, then...
State pushing for reservation of Karlapat mines for OMC
At a time when all attention is focused on the outcome of gram sabhas in Niyamgiri Hill Range with regards to proposed bauxite mining, the State government is pushing for reservation of Karlapat mines in favour of Odisha Mining Corporation. According to Steel and Mines department sources, documents...
Vedanta Alumina COO meets chief secretary JK Mohapatra
Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) Chief Operating Officer Mukesh Kumar on Monday meets Chief Secretary JK Mohapatra. After the meeting Mr. Kumar said the VAL hoped to receive bauxite from the State Government to run its Lanjigarh refinery plant in Kalahandi district at full capacity. Kumar said, “We...
Pro-mining outfit doubts over fairness of the village council meeting at Niyamgir, Odisha
A couple of days after Dongaria Kondhs of Serkapadi village unanimously rejected bauxite mining over Niyamgiri hills, Lanjigarh Vikash Parishad (LVP), an organization supporting the mining project and its beneficiary Vedanta's alumina refinery, has raised doubts over fairness of the village council...
Utkal Alumina closes refinancing for refinery project in Odisha
Hindalco Industries, through its subsidiary Utkal Alumina, has closed a Rp30 billion ($502 million) refinancing for its aluminium refinery project in Odisha, India. The financing, which was lead arranged by SBI and carries a tenor of 8 years, is to replace a Rp49.06 billion project financing, which...
