Mozambique confirms talks over future of Mozal aluminium smelter
The Mozambican government said negotiations are under way regarding the future of the Mozal aluminium smelter, the country's largest industrial operation. The facility has been under care and maintenance since March after operations were halted over concerns about rising electricity costs....
Mozal shutdown exposes Africa’s aluminium production vulnerability as Q1 2026 output falls 6.2%
Africa’s aluminium sector entered 2026 facing a difficult question: how exposed has the continent’s supply chain become to power disruptions and concentrated production risks? The concern intensified after regional aluminium production declined to 381,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, marking a 6.2 per cent...
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Mozal smelter benefited foreign interests more than the people of Mozambique, say campaigners
Tax campaigners are calling on Britain, the World Bank and private investors to return "excessive" profits from a flagship aluminium smelting project in Mozambique started as part of a recovery programme after the country's civil war in the early 1990s. According to a report by Jubilee Debt...
Aluminium, Mozambique’s largest single export product
Mozambique’s balance of trade posted a deficit of USD 687 million in the first half of this year, despite the fact that the country started exporting coal about a year ago, and that goods imports have fallen by 2.6%. Reporting this Macauhub News Agency quoted the Mozambican daily newspaper O País...
BHP Billiton power deal will cost heavy on Eskom
After a long time, Eskom has responded to public pleading for information on its sweetheart deal with BHP Billiton to supply cheap power to the Hillside and Mozal aluminium smelters. A few days ago, Eskom chief financial officer Paul O’Flaherty treated the nation to a lesson in modern arithmetic...
South African company awarded aluminium smelter contract
Cape Town-based Air Compressor Engineering (ACE) was awarded a compressed-air supply contract in March by diversified resources group BHP Billiton for its Mozal aluminium smelter, in Mozambique. As an official representative of Italy-based air compressor manufacturer Mattei, it supplies...
Eskom will continue providing subsidised electricity to BHP Billiton
Eskom will allow BHP Billiton to produce aluminium using subsidised electricity, even if winter conditions necessitate load-shedding. “We have a contract with Billiton and we will fulfill that contract,” said chief executive Brian Dames in response to the question whether he, like his predecessor,...
Mozambique exports driven by aluminum and coal products
Mozambique’s exports are expect to increase over the next 2 years with greater sales of aluminum, coal, gas and agricultural products thus allowing for the country’s balance of trade deficit to contract in 2012. In its latest report on Mozambique, the EIU raised its projections for exports of...
Mozal aluminium ranked as Mozambique biggest company in 2009
...Club of Mozambique reported that the Mozal aluminium foundry, which is responsible for a significant amount of Mozambique’s exports, was considered to be the country’s biggest company according to the list of the top 100 companies in Mozambique in 2009 published by consulting company KPMG...
BHP Billiton plant pollutes
...Mining giant BHP Billiton started a planned pollution at its Mozambican aluminium plant on Wednesday, despite heavy public opposition and a pending court application about its permit, a spokesman confirmed...
BHP Billiton was guilty of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter, an activist said on Friday.
...BHP Billiton was guilty of double standards by complicating public access to documents about a planned filter shutdown at its Mozambican aluminium smelter, an activist said on Friday...
BHP 'did not consult industries about pollution'
...Maputo - BHP Billiton's Mozambique aluminium smelter did not consult its industrial neighbours about a planned six-month-long air pollution, an official said on Thursday...
BHP Billiton dims lights on SA growth
...Asked about plans for the group's aluminium smelters in SA and Mozambique, he replied: "We will not deploy capital in those businesses. There have been major changes in smelting technology over the past 10 years." ...
No Threat to Environment From Mozal Bypass
...The management of the MOZAL aluminium smelter at Beluluane, in the outskirts of Maputo, on Friday insisted that its plans to rebuild the smelter's two fume treatment centres (FTCs), although increasing emissions, will not present any significant threat to the environment or to human health...
BHP, Eskom decouple Al prices from Mozal power contract
BHP Billiton has agreed to an amended power supply contract with Eskom for the 506,000 tpy Mozal aluminium smelter in Mozambique. "The agreement, effective 31 March 2010, removes the impact of embedded derivatives on Eskom's balance sheet, as well as all onerous conditions," said Eskom acting...
Research and Markets: Mozambique Mining Report Q3 2009 | Reuters
Sep 10, 2009 ... The diverse geology of Mozambique offers a range of minerals and metals including gold, uranium, titanium, coal and bauxite . ...
