US imports of bauxite declined to 644,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, down 15.8 per cent from 765,000 tonnes in Q3 2024. The decline reflects longer-term pressure on the US primary aluminium and alumina industries, including reduced refining capacity and weaker demand for imported raw materials. Trade...
Jamaica’s bauxite and alumina export earnings are expected to improve in 2026, even though the first quarter was weak. The government expects production to rise as repairs continue after Hurricane Melissa, and the aluminium industry is watching closely because bauxite is the raw material used to...
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<p>Alberto Fabrini was appointed Executive Vice President and member of Hydro's Corporate Management Board in 2014. He was previously Chief Operating Officer in Bauxite & Alumina and plant manager of the Albras primary plant in Brazil.<br /><br />Fabrini has also held the position as plant...
<p>The mining and quarrying industry of Jamaica put up a somewhat subdued performance in the June quarter, reported Statistical Institute of Jamaica. The final arbiter on national output Statin stated in its report that "reduced activities at the Noranda Bauxite plant in Jamaica" was responsible...
<p>Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation today announced Court approval for the sale of the Company's aluminum smelter and facilities in New Madrid, Missouri, to ARG International AG for a purchase price of $13.7 million. The Court approval follows an auction that took place on September 28, 2016....
<p>Two bidders have submitted their bids for the upstream business of Noranda Aluminium, the bankrupt aluminium producer from the US, in an auction held on Wednesday last week. Assets including one of Noranda's idled smelters in Missouri, a bauxite mining site in Jamaica, and an operational alumina...
<p>The bankruptcy sale of Noranda's Aluminium Foil business to the Swedish rolled aluminium products supplier Granges AB has been approved by St. Louis bankruptcy Judge Barry Schermer on Tuesday. <br /><br />According to the Wall Street Journal, Granges will buy Noranda Aluminium's foil division...
<p>The Government of Jamaica is all set to meet with the officials of the Jiuquan Iron & Steel (JISCO) in September this year. This will be the first meeting since the Chinese firm bought bauxite company Alpart Jamaica from UC RUSAL, last month, at a total price of US$300 million. <br /><br...
<p>United Company RUSAL has sold its Jamaican alumina facility ALPART refinery to China's Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCo). The takeover is expected to be completed by November this year. <br /><br />Transport and mining minister, Mike Henry, said an interest purchase agreement negotiated...
<p>Leading primary aluminium producer UC RUSAL has signed of an agreement with Alumina Partners of Jamaica (‘Alpart’) to sell its 100 per cent stake in the latter to the Chinese state industrial group, JIUQUAN IRON & STEEL (GROUP) Co. Ltd (‘JISCO’), as a part of their...
A management level talk is on the cards between the University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) and of the Noranda Bauxite Company executives in St Ann later this week to review and discuss the proposed redundancy packages for some shop-floor workers. Earlier this year, more than 30 workers were...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Surveys data published by the USGS, imports of alumina during the first quarter of 2016 were 262,000 metric tons (t), 6 per cent less than those in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 48 per cent less than those in the first quarter of 2015. The leading sources...
According to the latest Mineral Industry Surveys data published by the USGS, imports of crude and dried bauxite in the first quarter of 2016 were 1.51 million metric tons (Mt), 35 per cent less than those in the fourth quarter of 2015 and 45 per cent less than those in the first quarter of 2015....
Two major water harvesting and Greenhouse projects that have been recently started in Watt Town and Tobolski in South West St. Ann in Jamaica are helping farmers earn revenues after a long hiatus. The projects running successfully on mined-out bauxite lands are adding substantial economic value to...
Bankrupt aluminium producer Noranda is seeking bankruptcy court approval to sell off its so-called upstream business, including its now shuttered smelter in New Madrid, Missouri. Tennessee-based Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. said Monday it had filed a request in bankruptcy court for approval for...
According to Jamaica’s Minister of Transport and Mining Michael Henry, authorities expect to reopen the Alpart bauxite mine and alumina refinery in Nain, St Elizabeth, in the present fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2016 through March 31, 2017. Henry made the disclosure while speaking to...
Transport and Mining Minister of Jamaica, Hon. Mike Henry, says that mined-out bauxite lands across the island will be returned to productive use, especially in the area of agriculture. During a tour of two water harvesting and greenhouse cluster projects in St. Ann on June 2, Mr. Henry said he is...
The Jamaican economy grew by an estimated 0.9 per cent for the quarter to March 2016 when compared with the corresponding period last year and was the same level of expansion for fiscal year 2015/16, the Planning Institute of Jamaica reported on Wednesday. The positive outturn for the quarter...
The University and Allied Workers Union (UAWU) says it is still negotiating with Noranda Jamaica Bauxite as it continues to appeal to the company to reconsider its recent layoff of more than 30 workers. The UAWU represents some of the workers who were laid off. President of the UAWU Lambert Brown...
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw says that Jamaica was denied $625 million in bauxite levy payments last December due to the “slackness” of the previous Government. Shaw, in closing the 2016/17 Budget Debate yesterday in Gordon House, spoke about the loss to the country when...
