
At the US-Canada border, aluminium is constantly on the move, but the direction of trade is far from balanced. In the first six months of 2026, the US imported 907,581.44 tonnes of primary aluminium from Canada, while exporting only 78,886.12 tonnes of semi-fabricated aluminium products such as...
What happens when the world’s biggest bauxite supplier produces too much of the one commodity it dominates? Guinea’s bauxite market is offering a striking answer. Record exports have strengthened its position in global trade, but the surge in supply has also pushed prices lower. Australia,...
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<p>Rio Tinto has planned to cut down 80,000 tonnes of annual production and more than 100 jobs at its Boyne aluminium smelter in Gladstone. The annual aluminium production of the smelter is valued at $US160 million at current prices.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...

<p>Rio Tinto, one of the leading metals and mining conglomerate in the world says that with the beginning of construction of its $2 billion dollar Amrun bauxite project in Far North Queensland, it will create about 300 jobs for the local people.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle;"...

<p>The metals and mining giant Rio Tinto is offering aluminium medals to the 3,200 finalists of the 52nd Quebec Games, 2017 winter edition. The event is taking place in Alma, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Canada from 24 February to 4 2017.</p> <p><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...

<p>CRU Group, the London-based analysis and consultancy firm CRU focuses on the global mining and metals, has scheduled the World Aluminium Conference on 3-5 May 2017 at the Marriott London Grosvenor Square hotel. The World Aluminium Conference 2017 is the CRU’s 22nd edition...

<p>Rio Tinto has awarded a contract valued at $45 million to the Queensland division of civil construction company Fulton Hogan.<br /><br />The company will build a dam supplying water to the world-class Amrun bauxite project in Western Cape York Queensland, Australia.<br /><br />The 10.9 gigalitre...

<p>The past week saw two of the biggest aluminium producers of the world- <strong>Norsk Hydro and Rio Tinto</strong> announcing their financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year period of 2016 ending December 31. While Hydro’s EBITDA for fourth quarter of the last fiscal rose...

<p>The leading global mining and metals group Rio Tinto reported strong operational performance in Aluminium with production soaring high across all three verticals (bauxite, alumina, and aluminium) in comparison to that recorded in 2015. Annual production record for primary aluminium was set in...

<p>Rio Tinto announced full year financial results for 2016 today. Operating cash flow generation reached US$8.5 billion and underlying earnings totalled US$5.1 billion (+12% year-on-year) for the entire tenure ended December 31, 2016. The balance sheet strengthened further with net debt reducing...

<p>Rio Tinto has reached a binding agreement for the sale of its wholly-owned Australian subsidiary Coal & Allied Industries Limited to Yancoal Australia Limited for up to $2.45 billion comprising:<br /><br /> • An initial $1.95 billion cash payment, payable at...

<p>Rio Tinto has awarded a $70 million bulk earthworks contract for infrastructure development to QBrit, a civil engineering firm, at its Amrun bauxite project in northern Queensland.<br /><br />As per company, the contract will create 150 employment opportunities in addition to...

<p>Rio Tinto today announced that the company will slash aluminium production worth more than $110 million and 30 jobs due to high power prices in the state at its Boyne aluminium smelter. The company will reduce up to 45,000 tonnes of aluminium production in 2017.<br /><br />Rio Tinto’s...

<p>The global metals and minerals giant Rio Tinto released its 2016 bauxite production report on Tuesday, January 17. The company produced 47.7 million tonnes of bauxite in 2016, higher than expected target set in last October with an increase by 9 per cent from 2015.<br /><br /><img...

<p>Leading mining and minerals development company Rio Tinto released its fourth quarter production results today. Aluminium production logged a ten per cent year-over-year growth, with record per annum metal production at ten of its smelters. The recently modernised and expanded Kitimat smelter,...

<p>Rio Tinto’s fourth quarter report for 2016 shows that the workers at Yarwun's Rio Tinto refinery achieved alumina production at record levels. For the fourth quarter of 2016, the metals and minerals company produced 2,104,000 tonnes of alumina, five per cent higher than in 2015.<br /><br...

<p>Alumina prices driven by growing Chinese demand and tight supply climbed significantly to touch US$351 per tonne in 2016- the highest in the last two years. The price graph picked up momentum from August onward with the upturn in all commodity prices. According to the commodities forecast,...

<p>Bhagwan Marine, which owns and operates marine vessel servicing oil and gas, resources, port services, towage, and construction industries in Australia, has won a contract to supply marine vessels and crew to support construction at Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite project in north Queensland.<br...

<p>Developmental work at Rio Tinto's Amrun bauxite project is gathering pace. The global metals and mining giant has awarded a $160 million worth works contract for the $2.6 billion worth bauxite project in North Queensland's Weipa to Civmec. The construction firm will build a bauxite processing...

<p>Rio Tinto has reached an agreement to sell its assets at Lochaber, Scotland to SIMEC for consideration totalling $410 million (£330 million).<br /><br />The sale purchase agreement comprises the sale of Rio Tinto’s 100 per cent shareholding in Alcan Aluminium UK Limited which...