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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RUSAL plans to develop the largest bauxite deposit and alumina refinery in Guinea
Within six years, UC RUSAL plans to develop the largest bauxite deposit in Guinea and to build an alumina refinery. These plans surprised the experts, since the company already has a plant there, the Friquia, which is sitting idle. Professionals in the field think alumina production in Russia, made...
Rio extends gas deadline for Gove Alumina refinery
MINING giant Rio Tinto has extended its deadline for the Northern Territory government to find a supply of gas to power the company's loss-making aluminium refinery in Arnhem Land, the NT's largest private enterprise. Chief Minister Terry Mills will now make a last-minute dash to Europe in a bid to...
Struggle for gas continues to keep Gove refinery running
Last-ditch efforts are underway to persuade Rio Tinto to maintain production at its Gove alumina refinery in Australia after talks with potential gas suppliers to reduce costs ended without a resolution. Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Aluminium has said if it can't run the 2.5 million tonnes-per-year...
Fitch revises Clarendon Alumina Production outlook to negative
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Clarendon Alumina Production Limited's (CAP) foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'B-'. Fitch has also affirmed CAP's USD200 million 8.5% unsecured notes due November 2021 at 'B-/RR4'. The notes continue to be supported by an explicit unconditional...
Rio Tinto says Cyclone Oswald hit alumina output
Rio Tinto said on Wednesday that it was producing alumina in Australia's Queensland state at lower rates following heavy rains and flooding caused by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald. Rio said production was temporarily suspended at its Yarwun alumina refinery due to record rainfall around the Gladstone...
Nhulunbuy residents plan rally to save Gove alumina refinery
People in the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy are planning a rally on Wednesday to show resources giant Rio Tinto Ltd, that "they matter". With Rio's self-imposed deadline of January 31 for a report on the viability of their Gove alumina operations, people in the satellite town of...
Nhulunbuy town braces for Gove refinery news
The Northern Territory outback town of Nhulunbuy is facing a devastating blow, as a government bid to save an alumina refinery may be too little too late. Nhulunbuy, a satellite town of the Gove alumina refinery and bauxite mine, has been waiting anxiously for news of whether mining giant Rio Tinto...
Bottlenecks may upset Utkal Alumina production deadline
The Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) may miss its March-end deadline to start production at its plant as tribals have set development of the area as a precondition to allow bauxite mining in the area. Many official criteria also need to be fulfilled. The UAIL, a subsidiary of Kumar...
Bauxite mining in Cameroon to start between 2018 and 2019
Negotiations for ore mining, says the source, "continued normally" between the government and Emirati companies Dubal (UAE, 45% of the capital), Hindalco (India, 45% of the capital) and Hydromine (United States, 10% of the capital). The government has awarded two exploration licenses to operators...
Apex court defers hearing in Niyamgiri mining case
Vedanta Aluminium (VAL), a unit of Vedanta Resources, will have to wait for two more weeks after the Supreme Court on Monday deferred the hearing on Niyamgiri bauxite mines in Odisha's Kalahandi district. The apex court deferred hearing for two weeks due to non-submission of affidavit by the Union...
Hindalco to acquire Novelis' alumina refinery in Brazil
Hindalco Industries, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, today said it has finalised arrangement for acquiring alumina refinery and bauxite mines in Brazil from its wholly-owned subsidiary Novelis as part of corporate reorganisation plan. "Hindalco Industries has finalised its...
Hindalco Odisha refinery start delayed to March
Non-ferrous metals producer Hindalco Industries plans to start its 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery in Odisha by the end of March 2013, a company official said on Wednesday. The plant, in Odisha's Rayagada district, was scheduled to start operations in January, but has been...
Gas plan for Gove Refinery to cost taxpayers $900m
Rio Tinto says it is too expensive to keep using heavy fuel oil as a power source and has threatened to shut its alumina refinery on the Gove peninsula, 600km east of Darwin. Rio's subsidiary Pacific Aluminium wants taxpayers to provide a $900 million gas pipeline over 600km from Katherine to Gove....
Nalco yet to consider Vedanta's offer to buy alumina at a premium
After its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh was shut due to lack of bauxite, now operations at Vedanta’s aluminium smelter in Odisha have been hit by shortage of alumina. Time and again, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has asked National Aluminium Company Limited ( Nalco), which has surplus alumina, to...
Union rural development minister disappoints Vedanta team in bauxite supply issue
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh categorically told a team of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) officials on Sunday he is not the forest and environment minister and that he cannot do anything to help them mine Niyamgiri hills in Lanjigarh. The team, led by VAL chief operating officer...
Over 500 labours staged demonstration demanding resumption of bauxite supply to Vedanta
A demonstration was staged at Rayagada in Orissa to demand an immediate resumption of bauxite supplies to Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh to protect the livelihood of thousands of people. The demand was made after a peaceful protest Thursday by over 500 labours who staged a demonstration at...
Supreme Court stays Bombay High Court order charging Vedanta Aluminium
The Supreme Court has put on hold a Bombay High Court order asking Anil Agarwal-controlled Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) to deposit Rs 187 crore with it as security in an arbitration case involving a Chinese firm. A two-judge bench on Tuesday granted the stay on a special leave petition (SLP) filed...
Rio considers closing Gove alumina refinery
The fight to save nearly 1600 Rio Tinto aluminium jobs in the Northern Territory is dangerously close to being lost after the government admitted negotiations had stalled. Mining giant Rio Tinto's subsidiary Pacific Aluminium said on Monday that it was considering shutting its loss-making Gove...
