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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A ship carrying three thousand tons of aluminium from Rio Tinto Alcan in Straumsvík will leave harbor this afternoon, headed for the Netherlands, despite the limited strike meant to prevent all shipping of aluminium from the harbor. Ólafur Teitur Guðnason, spokesperson for Rio Tinto Alcan, says...
Richard Goodmanson, non-executive director of Rio Tinto, who joined the board in December 2004, will be retiring from the board this year. Richard will not seek re-election as a non-executive director of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited and will retire from the board at the conclusion of the Rio...
Aluminium offloading at the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium smelter has finally come to a halt after workers went on strike at midnight last night. Rio management is hoping to do the jobs of the employees, but who may work where is being disputed. The workers involved in the strike all belong to the...
Meridian Energy is considering a retail offer of up to $150 million of unsecured, unsubordinated fixed rate bonds to institutional and retail investors in early March, which is shaping as a crucial month for decisions on the future of its largest customer, the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. No...
Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie has held talks with the owners of the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium smelter at Fort William, amid fears for its future. The Canada-based metals and mining giant is undertaking a review of its assets, including the smelter, which employs about 150 people, a...
Rio Tinto has finally announced work stoppages at the smelter to be effective next week. This will bring aluminium exports to a stand-still, as workers try to gain leverage for wage increases. Vísir reports that the stoppages are to begin on February 24, and will continue indefinitely. The workers...
Some of the world’s biggest miners are believed to be positioning themselves for transformational takeover deals, with speculation mounting that Rio Tinto could be circling Alcoa’s $5 billion alumina business and that the coal giant Glencore is poised to buy the struggling Western Australia miner...
Profit or no profit, mining giant Rio Tinto remains committed to the $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite mine expansion near Weipa. And for that, the conglomerate is considering a joint venture partner that would help it fund the wholly owned project. It is known from the company sources that construction...
AluSolutions 2016, the only free exhibition and conference addressing sustainability challenges in aluminium production and processing, is excited to announce confirmed speakers from Rio Tinto, Norsk Hydro and Schüco. Taking place on 10th - 11th May 2016 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre,...
The man in charge of Rio Tinto's $US1.9 billion ($2.7 billion) bauxite expansion has left the company, as the miner's cost cutting drive continues to trim its executive ranks. Phillip Strachan had been Rio's chief executive of Bauxite and Alumina based out of Brisbane in recent years, but his role...
Workers at the aluminium smelter at Fort William have been told that the owners are reviewing its operations. The announcement from Rio Tinto said the review would include its assets in Lochaber. The plant is one of the largest employers in the area. It is thought to support more the 160 full-time...
Global mining behemoth Rio Tinto reported growth in production in its alumina operations in FY 2015. Alumina production from the company's QAL and Yarwun plants in 2015 totalled 6.61 million tonnes (mt), an increase of 355,000 tonnes from the 2014 total of 6.256 mt. The QAL plant produced 3.747 mt,...
Rio Tinto released solid fourth quarter production results despite the challenging market conditions. Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh said Rio Tinto remained focused on operating and commercial excellence against the industry's "challenging market backdrop". "In 2015, we delivered efficient...
Stocks of Australian mining giants climbed Thursday as an extended rally in raw material prices helped put the brakes on an ongoing commodity rout. An increase in U.S. consumer spending and signs of a revival in the Chinese economy in November have raised investors’ hopes of a better economic...
Profits seem to have gone missing from Rio Tinto's Gladstone alumina refineries and it is the contractors who are being squeezed to turn that around. Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited Contractors and suppliers will be worse off about $10 million through a re-tendering process that will look to...
Rio Tinto expects to produce 2.8 million tonnes of bauxite a year and replace the output from the depleting East Weipa mine. It slashed its budget for major projects to roughly $5.5 billion for 2015 from more than $17 billion three years ago. The project also provides further expansion options...
Rio Tinto will today provide an update on the significant progress being made on costs and productivity in its Aluminium business and unveil further detail on the recently approved Amrun bauxite project which positions Rio Tinto as the industry-leading supplier of bauxite. By the end of 2015, the...
Workers at the Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium smelter in Straumsvík, South-West Iceland, could come out on strike from tomorrow if no solution is found to a row over working conditions. A short and inconclusive round of talks yesterday failed to resolve the dispute between the operators of the plant and...
