The ongoing geopolitical tensions, especially with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, are deemed to be creating an adverse impact on Jamaica's bauxite and alumina sector. As warned by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), the country is now grappling with increased production costs and a feeding...
The global aluminium price is on a rising trend, reaching a four-year high, especially because of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. In March 2026, the aluminium price rose to USD 3,492 per tonne. In the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW) 2026, which is being scheduled for October 14-16 in...
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As part of its CSR activities, National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has provided assistance to the fire victims of Basoi village under Parjang block, in Dhenkanal district. The Periphery Development Cell of Nalco Corporate Office distributed 1000 GCI Sheets worth Rs. 10 lakh, to the 469...
Aluminum giant Alcoa has suffered a setback in its $158 million damages claim against Apache Energy over the 2008 Varanus Island gas explosion, after a judge threw out part of its legal argument. West Australian Supreme Court judge Rene Le Miere yesterday handed down a pre-trial decision in the...
Around 6,000 lawsuits have been filed against Norway-based aluminium firm Norsk Hydro in a Brazilian small-claims court in relation to a 2009 water spill at an alumina refinery, the firm said on Friday.A spill at Hydro's majority-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil in 2009 has resulted in a...
A Rosemount alumnimum recycling operation faces more than $1 million in fines, civil penalties and required plant upgrades for violating clean air laws and trying to conceal it. Spectro Alloys Corp. pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court and was fined $500,000. A pending civil enforcement...
Authorities have now confirmed that the Rain CII plant was caught on fire, which is near the Noranda Aluminum Plant in St. James Parish. The Rain CII Plant caught on fire around 7:30 PM Wednesday. The plant is a part of the old Kaiser Aluminum plant in St. James Parish in Gramercy. St. James Parish...
This week spells the end for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Lynemouth smelter as the main part of the plant closes its doors for the final time today. About 290 workers were due to finish their last shifts this week, and many others have already left to take up other jobs or to use up holidays owed to them. The...
The Rayagada district administration on Saturday imposed prohibitory orders under section 144 of the CrPc at the Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL) plant site at Doraguda in Kasipur block after irate labourers attacked police and set ablaze a police vehicle. The workers were up in arms against...
The West Virginia Supreme Court says tax officials properly appraised Century Aluminum's idled Jackson County plant. Tuesday's 3-2 ruling upholds the $54 million value assigned to the plant's machinery, equipment and inventory. The 2010 tax year appraisal followed the plant shutdown the prior year....
About 67 hectares of farmland were submerged in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of Tuesday after a sludge dump of an aluminum company began leaking Saturday. Mud measuring over one meter in depth from the sludge dump of the Guangxi Huayin Aluminum Co., Ltd. entered the houses of...
The first day of indefinite bandh called by Garhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Gover issues like acute power crisis, dilapidated condition of NH-75 and water woes evoked good response from its residents on Monday, as the entire business establishment remained shut and traffic came to a...
A blaze in the crusher plant at Tennessee Aluminum Processors took firefighters about an hour to extinguish, officials said. There were no injuries. The fire started about 9:40 a.m., Mt .Pleasant Fire Chief Tim Smith said. As firefighters arrived at the scene, a thick plume of black smoke could be...
MORE than 300 jobs are set to be lost as a Norwegian company plans to shut its aluminium smelter in the NSW Hunter Valley. Norsk Hydro will shut down its Kurri Kurri plant, as low metals prices and the strong Australian dollar impact its profitability, the company said today. The smelter employs...
Hungarian authorities are not keen on taking any risk after the red-mud disaster in 2010 caused by the MAL Hungarian Aluminium Producing and Trading Company. On Monday, they threatened to take the owners of the alumina plant responsible for a red-mud disaster in 2010 to court if they did not deal...
Vedanta gets involved in another controversy again as it loses on a safety award by UK on account of a death at the site. The British Safety Council on Monday announced the suspension of its 2012 International Safety Award recently conferred on mining major Vedanta Aluminium Limited's Lanjigarh...
Hulamin Ltd. (HLM) closed the Camps Drift hot finishing mill until about June 11 after a parts failure. “It is estimated that approximately 23,000 tons of production will be lost,” the Pietermaritzburg, South Africa- based maker of aluminium products said in a statement today. A planned shutdown...
A jury has sided with aluminum producer Alcoa in a $12 million lawsuit filed by a former miner who blamed an aggressive cancer on hazardous substances the company dumped at a southwestern Indiana mine. The Vanderburgh County jury reached the verdict Tuesday after a more than two-week trial on Bil...
PARAMARIBO – Minister Jim Hok of Natural Resources (NH) is concerned about the layoffs announced by Suralco. “This is not only bad news for employment,” the minister says. The reason for the layoffs is the declining demand for aluminum. “It shows once again that the bauxite industry is near death,”...
The situation in the Bauxite Mines is getting worse, after its electricity supply was cut off on Monday, and since it could be disconnected from the water distribution network in two days. According to unofficial information, the company s electricity debt, which has been accumulated for several...
