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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Rio Tinto expects its $US4.8 billion ($5.1 billion) South of Embley bauxite project near Weipa in Queensland to deliver returns comparable to its lucrative Pilbara iron ore operations, and is likely to approve its development this year, UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock said. Mr Lawcock tips South of Embley...
Rio Tinto, majority owner of Southland's Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter, has today announced another disappointing result for its New Zealand business. Rio Tinto Alcan (New Zealand), which operates as Pacific Aluminium, owns 79 per cent of New Zealand Aluminium Smelters. Its annual financial report for...
Rio Tinto Alcan which holds Rio Tinto's stake in the Bluff aluminium smelter, is mulling its response after losing an appeal against an Employment Court ruling over a claim of $13.4 million. The company took provisions for its share of the claim in its 2013 accounts, of $10.6 million, according to...
Intercept Minerals continues to progress a farm-in by Rio Tinto into its Tiwi Islands bauxite project off the Northern Territory. Under the agreement, Rio will spend $5 million over 4 years to earn a 75% operating interest in the project. This is subject to a number of pre-conditions including, the...
Rio Tinto has appointed Alfredo Barrios as chief executive of its Aluminium business. He will succeed Jacynthe Cote who will leave the business for personal reasons to pursue other interests. Alfredo will assume the role on 1 June 2014 and join the Executive Committee on this date. He will be based...
The Bell Bay aluminium producer has reported a big loss for 2013 after warning it would have to reduce staff unless it was exempted from the Renewable Energy Target. Rio Tinto Aluminium (Bell Bay), holder of the investment in the Bell Bay smelter, reported a $25 million loss for 2013. The result,...
Tiwai Point operator New Zealand Aluminium Smelters (NZAS) is reviewing ''the implications'' of an Employment Court decision, upholding a ruling that it must pay $19 million to workers shortchanged over 23 years of lieu day entitlements. NZAS, whose majority shareholder is Australian mining giant...
RIO Tinto’s much-maligned aluminium business could be a surprise saving grace for the miner as iron ore prices soften, with the company’s cost-cutting drive set to produce strong cashflows and boost the chance of big returns to shareholders. The turnaround in aluminium, which Deutsche Bank is...
Rio Tinto Group plans to focus on bauxite investments from the coming year with the demand expected to rise in China. “This year we are focusing on continuing to pay down debt, to improve the strength of the balance sheet,” Chief Executive Officer Sam Walsh told reporters following the company’s...
GLADSTONE'S Queensland Alumina Ltd is set for a healthy future that is capable of producing alumina for the next 40 years at least as the business continues to improve efficiency, Despite an organisational restructure in 2012 which saw 130 positions cut from QAL, the plant's biggest setback was...
Rio Tinto is raising its annual dividend by 15 per cent after adjusted profits increased last year to US$10.2 billion on a strong turnaround in its Canadian-based aluminum division. The world's second-largest miner said Thursday that its underlying earnings increased 10 per cent to US$5.53 cents...
Operations at Rio Tinto’s Gove bauxite and alumina site have returned to normal, the miner told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 21. Rio Tinto had suspended all operations at its Gove site in Australia following the death of a worker on Tuesday February 25. "Gove operations have returned to normal....
RIO Tinto will provide an extra $50 million over the next five years to help attract new economic activity and support the community transition in Nhulunbuy and the East Arnhem region. The announcement follows the company’s decision in November last year to suspend alumina production at its Gove...
Anne Lauvergeon and Simon Thompson will join the boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited as non-executive directors and both will become members of the Sustainability and Nominations Committees. Anne Lauvergeon’s appointment will take effect from 15 March 2014. She has over 30 years’...
Rio Tinto Alcan confirmed a planned maintenance outage at its Arvida smelter in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. The Montreal-based aluminium producer will shut the casting center at the smelter for seven to 10 days to perform maintenance work on the facility's furnaces and casting...
Anne Lauvergeon and Simon Thompson will join the boards of Rio Tinto plc and Rio Tinto Limited as non-executive directors and both will become members of the Sustainability and Nominations Committees. Anne Lauvergeon’s appointment will take effect from 15 March 2014. She has over 30 years’...
Rio Tinto Alcan Inc, Canadian aluminium producer has signed a 5-year partnership with National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to expand aluminium use in light vehicles & trains. “We see that the demand in the automotive market will be growing within the next few years, so we want to find new ways...
More than 4,000 business leaders, engineers, scientists and other professionals in the minerals, metals and materials fields attended the 143rd TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Diego, California on 16th – 20th February 2014. The TMS 2014 Annual Meeting presented nearly 70 symposia covering a...
