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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...The world has an insatiable appetite for aluminium - but producing one tonne of aluminium creates 13 tonnes of waste, consisting of 10 tonnes of rock and 3 tonnes of toxic sludge...
...At least two labourers were killed, while four others sustained serious injuries, when the safety valve of an Alumina Digestion Plant exploded in Hindalco premises in Renukoot area under Pipari police station in Sonbhadra district on Monday...
...The massive waste spill at a Hungarian aluminium plant earlier this month which left nine people dead has sparked a heated debate about how such toxic material is monitored and whether the regulators are up to the task...
...Mr Lajos Tolnay chairman of Magyar Aluminium Zrt as saying that company is ready to pay a total of HUF 1.5 billion in compensation to affected people over 5 years...
...Hungary will take control of an alumina plant and detained its chief executive after one of the company’s waste reservoirs burst, unleashing toxic sludge that killed at least eight people, premier Viktor Orban said...
...Police have detained the director of the aluminium company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir last week as Hungary's prime minister said the state would take over the business...
...BS reported that another industrial accident had hit Vedanta controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited in Korba as a heavy iron gate at fabrication shop crashed killing a contract worker and injuring two others...
...Cracks in a reservoir which burst last week, flooding several towns in western Hungary with red sludge and killing at least seven people, have not continued to widen, officials have said...
...The immediate flood threat to residents of three western Hungarian counties triggered by millions of gallons of red mud, a caustic aluminum industry byproduct, is over, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said on Tuesday afternoon...
...The reservoir of an alumina plant in western Hungary burst on Monday, flooding several towns with towering waves of red sludge...
... 165923 - 2010-09-18 - Reuters reported that Brazil's Alumar alumina refinery has been hit by power and commissioning problems but should be ...
...The day when the workers in the Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited were commemorating the first anniversary of the chimney disaster, the company was busy engaging the judicial commission constituted to probe the incident...
...Even before the Sompeta embers could fully die down, another agitation against a proposed alumina plant in Vizag Agency has turned violent...
...In the newly-refurbished endzone section, 31 aluminum bleachers became unhinged and collapsed during the game. According to ECU officials, some fans suffered minor injuries, but no approximate number of injured people has been released yet...
...Chinalco, the parent company of China's largest aluminum producer, Aluminum Corp. of China Limited, has donated CNY4 million to Gansu Province's Zhouqu County, which was hit by mudslides triggered by heavy rains...
...Reuters reported that Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro had declared force majeure for aluminium deliveries from its Qatalum smelter in Qatar after a power failure delayed the plant's ramp up schedule...
...said on Tuesday the Qatalum smelter, a 50/50 joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and the Norwegian aluminium company, had suffered a power failure that would delay its ramp-up schedule...
...Alcan Cable will shutter its Roseburg facility by the end of 2010, leaving 78 employees without jobs...
