Oceania’s primary aluminium industry is facing a fragmented energy transition. While Australia, the leading aluminium producer of the continent, has abundant renewable resources and a well-established aluminium value chain, its smelters remain significantly more dependent on fossil-fuel-based...
New Zealand’s aluminium extrusion industry is calling for urgent government action as it faces growing pressure from low-priced imports. The Aluminium Extruders Association of NZ (ALENZ) says a rise in imported aluminium extrusions, particularly from China, is affecting local manufacturers, with...
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The Solomon Islands Government is threatening to cancel a company's lease to mine bauxite on Rennell Island. It would be the second such cancellation after the government last week withdrew the lease of PT Mega Bingtang Borneo for its failure to meet the conditions laid down by the Mines and...
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa today announced that Alcoa of Australia will permanently close the Anglesea coal mine and power station on August 31, 2015. The Anglesea power station previously supplied approximately 40 percent of the power needs for the Point Henry smelter in Geelong, Victoria....
Bell Bay Aluminium had urged the government of Tasmania in February that increasing the electricity rates will hit the company hard and may result in large scale jobs cuts. In return, the government has struck a secretive deal with the firm that could secure the 1,500 jobs that were in risk. The...
During the recent quarter Queensland Bauxite signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Far North Queensland Ports Corporation Limited (Ports North). Other Highlights: - Heads of Agreement signed with Ports North for Mourilyan Port - Environmental consultants progressing approvals - Investment by China...
A mining company in Fiji being accused of not paying royalties to landowners says it has handed over about 670,000 US dollars to the government. Landowners in Fiji's northern division say they have not received any royalties from a bauxite mine run by Chinese company Aurum Exploration Limited since...
The Chinese company Aurum Exploration Limited has secured its third bauxite mining site in Fiji after a great success with the first site at Nawailevu and starting processes for the second site at Letuku. However, the locals are not entirely happy with the company and there are complaints about the...
The third bauxite mining site in Fiji has been issued a lease making it the largest site so far in the Northern Division region. Nawailevu was the first site being mined by the Chinese company Aurum Exploration Limited and has yielded almost 1 million tonnes of bauxite. Rehabilitation work has also...
Seychelles Breweries Ltd (SBL), the Indian Ocean island archipelago's only brewery, is for the first time making available canned versions of Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta, three of its lines of soft drinks bottled and sold locally. All three soft drink brands are produced under license from the...
At the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing, the Permanent Secretary (PS) for Ministry of Finance & Treasury (MoFT) of Solomon Islands has announced that the export duty on bauxite shipments will be raised by 20%. The statement was in response to the question posed by the Chairman Rick Hou...
Rio Tinto reported higher coal production for the first quarter driven primarily by the improved performance of the Kestrel South mine in Queensland after a longwall ramp-up. Semisoft production also increased at Mount Thorley and Warkworth in NSW while at the Hail Creek facility in Queensland...
Two years after receiving a $30 million handout from taxpayers the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is "squarely in the black", says an industry analyst. The smelter, which employs more than 3000 people in Southland, had claimed its future was in doubt as it sought to cut the price of its electricity...
The Attorney General Chamber is recommending cancellation of mining licenses on Rennell Island. A report produced by the Attorney General this week points to maladministration and irregularities in the granting of mining leases to Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) and Bintang Borneo for...
Altech Chemicals Limited announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with mining services company, Castle Equipment Pty Ltd (Castle), appointing it as mining contractor and processing plant operator for the Company's aluminous clay (kaolin) deposit at Meckering, Western...
Queensland Bauxite's current drilling program at the South Johnstone Bauxite Project in Queensland is targeting an increase in mine life. Drilling is aimed at further increasing the level of JORC Indicated and Inferred Resources. The Exploration Target area has a range of between 193 million tonnes...
Electricity demand would require about a decade to recover back to present levels, if the Tiwai Pt smelter in Southland closed, a government report says. New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) is the largest single electricity user in the country, accounting for almost 13 per cent of national...
New Zealand Aluminium Smelters pays one of the highest electricity costs in the world, outside China, competing with the smelters of Eastern and Southern Europe, says Chairman Brian Cooper in a statement. The statement made by Cooper comes in response to the fear expressed by the electricity...
Alcoa of Australia Limited has secured a new 12-year gas supply agreement to power its alumina refineries in Western Australia. Commencing in 2020, the agreement is for an initial supply of 120 terajoules per day of natural gas. Combined with a number of smaller agreements, this means Alcoa of...
South32, BHP Billiton’s the awaiting spin-off company, add more new board members to the team in preparation of the early June release on the ASX. In an announcement made by the nascent company on Tuesday, they will be expanding their board from four to eight members adding four non-executive...
