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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Ministerial panel on raw material supply submits report
The inter-ministerial group (IMG) of Odisha government, which was formed in November last year to give its view regarding long-term supply of raw materials to local metal industries, submitted its report today to the chief minister for further discussion in the state cabinet. "We have formed a...
Vedanta restarts Lanjigarh alumina refinery plant
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Thursday restarted its 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha, about seven months after the company had shut down the unit due to scarcity of bauxite. "We have started operations of the alumina refinery. We have to limit its capacity...
Nalco dithers over alumina supply to Lanjigarh refinery
Anticipating trouble from its workers union, the management of the state-owned Aluminium producer NALCO is deliberating whether it should supply a 'trial' amount of alumina to Vedanta Resources' refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. NALCO had obtained an advance from its private sector rival for the trial...
China to build US$1 billion alumina refinery in Indonesia
China is ambitious to build an alumina refinery in Indonesia with an investment up to US$1 billion in two phases. The joint venture refinery began to be formed. To pave the mega investment, domestic company PT Harita Jayaraya teams up with China Hongqiao Group Ltd. to form a joint venture (JV),...
Harita to build smelter in Kalimantan
PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina Refinery, a joint venture between PT Harita Group and China Hongqiao, plans to build a smelting plant to process bauxite into aluminum in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. Harita's CEO, Lim Gunawan Hariyanto, said in Jakarta on Wednesday that construction of the smelting...
Vedanta sources bauxite to restart alumina refinery
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) Tuesday said it has received about 35,000 tons of bauxite from Gujarat to re-start its alumina refinery in Odisha'sKalahandi district at lower capacity. "We have started getting bauxite from Gujarat. We will build a buffer stock of at least one and half lakh tones of...
Vedanta awaits government report to re-open Lanjigarh refinery
Vedanta Aluminium is awaiting Odisha government’s report on long-term raw material supply to its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in the state before resuming operations at its unit, that has been lying closed for the past seven months, say company sources. The aluminium firm had closed its 1 million ton...
Jamaican government official casts doubt on Windalco reopening
A senior mining ministry official has spurred doubts on prospects for the reopening of the stalled Windalco Kirkvine alumina plant in Manchester, saying it is being scrapped for parts. Oral Rainford, a principal director in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, told an audience...
Centre pulls up Odisha government for reluctance to hold gram sabhas, despite Supreme Court ruling
The Centre has raised concerns over Odisha government's reluctance to let all the gram sabhas in Raygada and Kalahandi districts decide the fate of Vedanta's alumina refinery and bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri as per the Supreme Court. Odisha government has told the Centre that it will conduct...
Indian government seeks status report on MoUs from IPICOL
The State Government has sought status report from the Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL) on 10 MoUs signed for projects in aluminium, cement, auto ancillaries and titanium. The projects of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), Aditya Alumina, RSB Metaltech, ASO Cement,...
Nalco to boost alumina production capacity
India’s National Aluminum Company Limited (Nalco) and the country’s third-largest producer of aluminum, may soon be getting access to a new 65-million-ton bauxite reserve to expand its alumina refinery from 2.1 million tons a year to 3.1 million tons a year by 2016. A draft of a detailed project...
Chalco jettisons equity shareholdings
The company is selling its stakes in the following businesses: Chalco Henan Aluminium Fabrication in Luoyang (86.84%); Chalco Southwest Aluminium Sheet/Strip Co of Chongqing (60%); Chalco Southwest Aluminium Cold Rolling Co of Chongqing (100%); Huaxi Aluminium Co in Chendu (56.86%); Chalco Ruimin...
Amnesty urges holistic particpation for Vedanta mining project talks
International human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has urged the Odisha government to hold gram sabhas in all 80 odd Dongria Kondh Adivasi (Indigenous) and other Adivasi villages in Niyamgiri hills which are likely to be affected by bauxite mining for an alumina refinery of Vedanta...
Vedanta mulls imports to revive Lanjigarh refinery
After exhausting its options to source bauxite from the domestic market, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) is mulling importing the raw material to resume operations at its Lanjigarh refinery. The one-million alumina refinery has remained shut since December 5, 2012, on bauxite crunch and VAL has been...
Nalco secures new bauxite mine for brownfield expansion
Nalco would be securing access to a new 65-million ton bauxite reserve to expand its alumina refinery from 2.1 million tons a year to 3.1 million tons a year, by 2016. According to a company official, the bauxite reserves at Pottangi, in the East Indian province of Orissa where the country’s...
Vedanta Aluminium Limited, Lanjigarh conferred with 'Best Corporate Award'
Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Lanjigarh has been conferred with ‘Best Corporate Award’ in Aluminium sector. Minister of Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Odisha, Shri Surya Narayan Patro presented the award in presence of Shri Abasar Beuria, former Ambassador and Padma Vibhushan...
Norsk Hydro issues force majeure notice to customers
Hydro issued a notice of force majeure to its alumina customers on Wednesday as power outages and lowered production at Alunorte alumina refinery may affect alumina deliveries to customers. It is currently not possible to determine or estimate whether and how deliveries to customers will be...
Russia’s aluminium giant to invest $2 billion in refinery
Russia-based United Company RUSAL, the world’s biggest aluminium producer, plans to build a bauxite refinery in Indonesia to produce alumina, in order to benefit from the government’s ban on the export of unprocessed ores by 2014. Top executives from the company expressed their interest during a...
