Ghana puts bauxite, lithium and iron ore in the spotlight to woo Australian capital
Ghana has stepped up efforts to attract Australian investment into its growing critical minerals sector, pitching the country as a stable and reform-driven destination for mining and value-added mineral development at the 2026 Africa Down Under (ADU) Summit in Perth. The Ghanaian delegation was led...
Alcoa prices $2.6b senior notes for South32 bauxite, alumina and aluminium deal
Alcoa Corporation has set the price for a USD 2.6 billion senior notes offering to help finance the cash consideration for its proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina, and aluminium assets . Along with the cash on hand, this debt is expected to provide permanent funding for the...
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China advances its way into the U.S.-Australia relationship
History and money link the U.S. and Australia but that’s not stopping China from shoehorning its way into the relationship at a business a level, as well as in laying the foundations for a push to replace the U.S. in a region it regards as its backyard and a critical supplier of raw materials. A...
Pacific Aluminium and Swire Shipping make freight deal
A new international shipping service will boost the viability of one of Tasmania's largest private employers -- Bell Bay Aluminium. The service, however, offers little relief for other Tasmanian exporters who have been forced to ship goods to market via Melbourne since the withdrawal of the state's...
AMMG technology produces 99.9% high purity alumina
Australia Minerals and Mining Group (AMMG) has successfully produced over 99.9% (3N) of high purity alumina (HPA) using its own unique aluminous clay (kaolin) to alumina processing technology. Using samples from all four of AMMG’s South West HPA projects in Western Australia, the material presented...
Precision Light and Air Pty Ltd offers process analyzers for alumina plants
Precision Light and Air Pty Ltd specializes in in-line process analyzers for direct insertion into pipes and tanks for the alumina industry where high scale and erosive process is the norm. • Slurry liquor phase density meters for caustic concentration in clear liquors and slurries. • In line steel...
Rio Tinto’s pain is packaging giant Amcor’s gain
The results of packing giant Amcor and global miner Rio Tinto indicate fortune does indeed favour the prepared. Rio Tinto, the world’s second-biggest mining group, reported its first ever annual loss last week, following more than US$20 billion (HK$155.1 billion) in write-downs since its...
Rio Tinto still under pressure due to its fateful acquisition of Alcan
What is often dubbed the metal of the future for its impressive demand growth profile has been an albatross for the resources giant ever since it made that fateful 38-billion acquisition of Alcan back in 2007. Five years on and 29 billion of write-downs later and aluminum is still a highly...
Australian Bauxite granted a trading halt
Australian Bauxite has been granted a trading halt by the ASX pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising. The company recently declared a 3.5 million tonne maiden bauxite resource for its Mining Lease ML80126 in Queensland. This allows Australian Bauxite to define a resource size...
Rio Tinto moves closer to Pacific Aluminium listing
Rio Tinto Ltd has established a team of high-profile business personalities to oversee a potential $2 billion listing of its Pacific Aluminium business, including the struggling Gove alumina refinery in the Northern Territory, according to The Australian. While Rio has not made a decision regarding...
Nhulunbuy celebrates as Gove refinery stays open
The outback town of Nhulunbuy is celebrating after global miner Rio Tinto Ltd promised to keep open its loss-making alumina refinery. Rio subsidiary Pacific Aluminium says it will keep open the giant Gove refinery, following a deal with the Northern Territory government to convert the diesel-fed...
Rio Tinto decides to keep Gove refinery open
Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) said it will keep a loss making alumina refinery in Australia's remote Northern Territory open as it finalizes a deal with the local government to supply cheaper natural gas to the operation for the next decade. Rio Tinto had been due to decide on the future of the Gove refinery...
Alcoa and Victorian govt pass carbon tax liability to federal govt
Aluminium giant Alcoa and the Victorian state government have designed a complicated set of deals intended to place the liability for rising power costs onto the federal government, according to The Australian Financial Review. The plan addresses a long-standing issue whereby decades-old agreements...
The latest Holden Commodore uses aluminium to keep weight in check
The wraps have come off the last-ever Australian-designed Holden Commodore. At a function in Melbourne on Sunday, Holden chairman and managing director Mike Devereux described the VF Commodore as “the most technologically advanced vehicle ever made in this country” and “the first step in defining...
Australia Commits Gas Supply for Rio's Gove Alumina Refinery
Australia’s Northern Territory government committed to supply gas to Rio Tinto Group’s Gove alumina refinery after the world’s second-biggest mining company said it may shut the plant due to high fuel oil costs. “The Northern Territory government has now guaranteed a gas supply for the Gove...
Wagerup refinery has produced 50 million tonnes of alumina so far
Wagerup refinery brought some extra shine to Alcoa on Australia’s 50th anniversary celebrations last week. The refinery has produced 50 million tonnes of alumina since it opened along with the Willowdale bauxite mine on April 11, 1984. This is equivalent to the alumi-nium components in more than...
Northern Territory gas plan to be considered on Monday
The Northern Territory cabinet to decide on Monday whether the government should release gas to Rio Tinto Ltd in a bid to save an outback town. In a statement from London on Thursday, NT Chief Minister Terry Mills said he was continuing negotiations with Rio Tinto managing director Sam Walsh as he...
Rio refinery closure would strip $400m from NT economy
Rio Tinto's loss-making aluminium refinery in Arnhem Land should be shuttered, according to an internal review, with the expected loss of up to 1500 jobs and devastating effects on the regional economy. An investment review committee recommended Rio immediately move to mothball the refinery on the...
Rio told to sell Gove aluminium plant
An internal review has recommended Rio Tinto close down its aluminium refinery in the Northern Territory over the next six to 12 months. The Australian reports an investment review committee has recommended Rio immediately mothball the refinery near Gove, which will result in the loss of around...
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...
