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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Utkal Alumina refinery goes on stream after two decades
After struggling hard for over two decades, Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, has finally started trial production from its 1.5 million ton alumina refinery at Doragurah, near Kasipur in Odisha’s Rayagada district. During trial production, the plant is...
Nalco to add 1 MTPA capacity at Odisha alumina plant by 2016
Nalco will add an additional one million tons per annum (MTPA) capacity by 2016 to its existing 2.1 MTPA alumina refinery in Odisha for about INR 4,570 crore, a senior company official said. A draft of detailed project report (DPR) for the expansion of the alumina refinery has been prepared and it...
Hindalco arm starts trial production at alumina refinery in Odisha
Utkal Alumina International, an arm of aluminium maker Hindalco, has just started trial production at its 1.5 million tonne a year alumina refinery in Odisha. The alumina would be the feedstock for two of Aditya Birla group’s upcoming aluminium plants, the 359 kilo tonne a year Mahan aluminium...
Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery to re-open this month
After lying idle for over six months, Vedanta’s one million ton alumina refinery at Lanjigarh is gearing up to resume operations by the end of this month on hopes of bauxite supplies from private miners in Gujarat and also opening of group firm Bharat Aluminum Company Kawardah mines in...
Bauxite Resources Limited announces upgrade of bauxite resource
Bauxite Resources Limited is pleased to announce a resource upgrade for the Felicitas bauxite deposit in the Darling Range Western Australia. The Felicitas resource is contained within the Company's Bauxite Alumina Joint Ventures ("BAJV") with Yankuang Resources Ltd. The resource is situated on a...
NALCO expects 20% volume growth in alumina in FY14
National aluminium company expects around 20 percent volume growth in FY14. During the year gone by, the firm's alumina refinery produced 1.802 million tonnes of alumina hydrate, which is an all-time high, against the previous best of 16.87 lakh tonne achieved in preceding year. According to...
Queensland Alumina scraps gas power plant plans
Queensland Alumina Limited, that operates the world's largest alumina refinery has confirmed it has shelved a proposed gas-fired power station in central Queensland. The company had planned a co-generation gas power plant at its Gladstone refinery to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, which would...
District collectors get alerts on decisive gram sabhas for Vedanta's mining project
The Odisha Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe development department has issued notices to the district collectors of Rayagada and Kalahandi, asking them to conduct hearings ahead of Gram Sabhas at Niyamgiri hill range, which will decide the fate of the bauxite mining project there. As per the...
Vedanta looking for bauxite supplies to restart alumina refinery in Odisha
The Vedanta Group is hopeful of tying up bauxite supplies to restart its alumina refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha within the next 1-2 months. Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the group arm which operates the unit, is in talks with a clutch of private miners in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh besides Gujarat...
Ormet sale hearing postponed as negotiations continue
A scheduled Wednesday sale of bankrupt US aluminum producer Ormet Corp. to Wayzata Investment Partners was postponed until June 3 by a federal bankruptcy judge because negotiations are continuing on the disputed terms of the proposed transaction. Judge Mary Walrath of the US Bankruptcy Court for...
Guinea's bauxite market headed for an impasse
Guinea’s ambitious bauxite market is set to be marred by the pull out of foreign investment and its own political unrest. In March, president Alpha Conde pledged to triple production to 61 million metric tons by 2016-17 and account for a quarter of the world's bauxite production by 2020. But...
Australia allows mining on proposed world heritage site
Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Rio Tinto Alcan’s new South of Embley bauxite mine on Cape York, the Queensland peninsula that the Australian government intends to propose as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Announcing the approval May 15, Burke said with the 76 strict...
Guinea approves BHP, Global Alumina stake sale in refinery project
The government of Guinea said on Wednesday it has given approval to BHP Billiton and Global Alumina to sell their stake in a bauxite and alumina project to Dubai Aluminium Co (Dubal) and Mubadala Development Co. BHP paid $140 million in 2007 for a 33.3 percent stake in the Guinea Alumina Corp...
Bintan Alumina Smelter build $ 1 billion
Indonesia PT Bintan Alumina invest up to U.S. $ 1 billion for the construction of mineral processing and refining plant (smelter) in Bintan, Riau Islands. Director of Bintan Alumina, Zulnahar Usman said that the company is conducting a feasibility study or feasibility study smelter development....
Bauxite Resources' new chief executive officer takes the reins
Bauxite Resources new chief executive officer and executive director Peter Canterbury has commenced employment today. Canterbury joins Bauxite Resources from Sundance Resources, where he had been the chief financial officer for the past six years. He played a key role in rebuilding the company as...
Dubai Aluminium and Mubadala amounted to 100% in the capital of Guinea Alumina Corporation
The UAE Dubai Aluminium Group and Mubadala, an investment fund owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, announced on May 16, they will rise to 100% in the capital of Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), by purchasing the shares of BHP Billiton and Global Alumina Corporation in society. Dubai Aluminium...
Vedanta hopeful of restarting Lanjigarh refinery by July
Diversified conglomerate Vedanta Resources expects to restart its alumina refinery in Odisha'sLanjigarh by July and is hopeful of securing approvals for doing mining at Niyamgiri hills in the state by September. "Management expects that the mining approvals for mining and the statutory approvals...
Despite uncertainty in bauxite mining, aluminum project comes up
Union Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo's singular opposition to bauxite mining in the forest areas of Visakhapatnam has a newly-built plant scouting for alternative sources. Anrak Aluminium Limited, one of the two companies that had entered into an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh...
