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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Nalco's bauxite mining comes to a halt at Panchpatmali
National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has stopped production at its Panchpatmali North-Central block bauxite mines after its lease deed for the area expired on Saturday. The company, which is awaiting renewal of the lease, said it is expecting a temporary working permit to operate the mine by...
Vedanta plans to cut output at Odisha smelter
Vedanta Resources Plc, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, may cut output at its four-year-old aluminium smelter in India as it grapples with a shortage of raw material, two people familiar with the matter said. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd’s plan to shut down its alumina refinery in Orissa due to...
Orbite's aluminum refinery in Nova Scotia could employ about 400 people
Quebec firm seeks to build aluminum oxide facility that could cost up to $1 billion A Quebec company hopes to build an aluminum oxide refinery in Nova Scotia that would cost upwards of half a billion dollars and could employ 200 to 400 people. “It’s not a small thing,” Richard Boudreault, president...
Indian aluminium firms led by Hindalco to add capacity
With aluminium prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) hitting closer to $1,900 (Rs 1 lakh) per tonne in the last quarter, nearly 30 per cent of global capacities are making cash losses. Yet India, led by Hindalco Industries Ltd, will add capacities next year. Indian aluminium companies have an...
Global Alumina Releases Third Quarter 2012 Results
Global Alumina Corporation, a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea, announced today its financial and operating results for the three and nine month periods ended...
Guinea targets 3 firms in resource contract review
Guinea is focusing a review of its resource contracts on three deals that it says were signed under murky conditions, including an agreement involving one of the world's biggest iron ore deposits, a source close to the review said. They include BSG Resources' deal to obtain half of the giant...
Nalco to be allowed mining at Panchapatmali
With the 30-year lease of the Panchapatmali bauxite mines allotted to the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) due to expire on November 16 which is likely to force closure of its refinery at Damanjodi, the State Government has decided to allow continuation of the lease of bauxite mines for the...
Australian Bauxite Limited updates on its Tasmanian bauxite resources
Emerging bauxite development company, Australian Bauxite Limited has bauxite tenements totalling more than 7,500 km2 covering the core of the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province . ABx considers its Tasmanian Project located within 100 km of Bell Bay Port to be a state significant discovery of a...
Australian government tries rescuing Rio Tinto’s Gove Alumina Refinery
Australia’s federal government has agreed to back the construction of a proposed gas pipeline to supply Rio Tinto’s struggling Gove aluminum operations in the country’s Northern Territory. According to The Australian, the Territory's government is expected to sell up to 13% of its gas supply to...
Odisha Chief Minister promises Vedanta chief to provide bauxite
Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal on Thursday said that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised to take steps on priority basis for supply of bauxite to the Vedanta Aluminum Limited’s (VAL) refinery at Lanjigarah in Kalahandi. However, he made it clear that the company would be compelled to...
Vedanta may buy alumina from Nalco at export price
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) whose smelter plant has run into a crisis as a fall-out of raw material crunch crippling its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, said it is ready to source alumina from National Aluminium Company (Nalco) at export price. “Our smelter operations have been affected because of...
Gove refinery should continue operation, according to AWU
Pacific Aluminium's (Rio Tinto) Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery are vital economic assets and critical parts of Australia's aluminium supply chain that must remain fully operational, according to The Australian Workers' Union (AWU). Pacific Aluminium today announced it would conduct a review...
Gove alumina operations may close to cut costs
Operations at Rio Tinto's alumina facilities at Gove in the Northern Territory could be temporarily suspended. The ABC understands the mine operator, Pacific Aluminium, called a meeting with workers today to announce it is conducting a strategic review into the bauxite mine and refinery. The...
Rio Tinto Alcan's Yarwun refinery expansion project opens
Rio Tinto Alcan's Yarwun refinery expansion project opens More than 600 employees, Gladstone community representatives and local Indigenous leaders joined with Rio Tinto Alcan and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman today to launch the $2.5 billion Yarwun alumina refinery expansion in Gladstone....
Vedanta Aluminium resumes operation on bauxite availability
After being shut for nine days due to lack of bauxite, the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district opened on Monday with arrival of some raw material. "The refinery plant, which was temporarily shut down on October 13, has opened and re-started...
Vedanta Resumes Operations at East India Alumina Refinery
Vedanta Resources VED.LN -1.66% PLC has resumed operations at its alumina refinery in the eastern Indian state of Orissa where production was suspended for more than a week due to a shortage of bauxite, a raw material. "We have started operations at the plant on Monday after we received bauxite...
Gove alumina operations may close to cut costs
Operations at Rio Tinto's alumina facilities at Gove in the Northern Territory could be temporarily suspended. The ABC understands the mine operator, Pacific Aluminium, called a meeting with workers today to announce it is conducting a strategic review into the bauxite mine and refinery. The...
Gas pressures put squeeze on alumina
The current state of Australia's natural gas markets is squeezing out investment opportunities for the Australian alumina refining industry - an industry that includes some of the country's largest users of natural gas. Responding to the release of the National Institute of Economic and Industry...
