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Rio Tinto Alcan adjusts production at its Alma smelter after initiating lockout
Rio Tinto Alcan will begin an orderly shutdown of approximately one-third of its production at its 438,000 tonne Alma smelter in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec after initiating a lockout at the facility earlier today.
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BHP may sell $10 billion of smelters, mines, Deutsche Bank says
BusinessWeek | February 9, 2012BHP Billiton Ltd., the largest mining company, may consider selling about $10 billion of aluminum, nickel and coal mines and smelters as it trims its portfolio, Deutsche Bank AG said.
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Newton County aluminum plant to close; 146 to lose jobs
Indianapolis Star | February 8, 2012At least 146 employees of a Newton County aluminum extrusion plant will lose their jobs this summer when the facility is closed.
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Rio Tinto Alcan employee passes away following fatal incident on the Roberval-Saguenay railway in Quebec
CNW Group | January 29, 2012Rio Tinto Alcan confirms an employee has succumbed to their injuries following an incident on the Roberval-Saguenay railway in Quebec.
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BHP Billiton to Halt Bauxite Exploration at Guinea and rsquo;s Boffa Site
BusinessWeek | January 29, 2012BHP Billiton Ltd. plans to halt bauxite exploration at its Boffa-Santou-Houda site in Guinea, the world’s biggest exporter of the ore, after prices for aluminum dropped, said Jean-Francois David, the company’s president in the West African nation.
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Rusal to downsize production due to economic environment
RBC | January 28, 2012UC Rusal, one of the world’s largest aluminum and alumina producers, may cut aluminum output by 6% over the next 18 months, a spokesperson for the company said.
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Kaolin to alumina process development
International Mining | January 26, 2012Australia Minerals and Mining Group (AMMG), through its wholly owned subsidiary Kaolin Resources, has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Kalamazon Estudos Geologicos (KEG), the wholly owned subsidiary of Kalamazon Minerals.
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Norsk Hydro to cut 250 jobs in aluminium plant restructure
FEN | January 12, 2012Global aluminum supplier Norsk Hydro yesterday announced plans to cut the capacity of its Australian New South Wales-based Kurri Kurri smelter by 33 percent citing low metal prices as the main reason for its decision.
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Alba hits record metal production in 2011
Trade Arabia | January 7, 2012Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the world’s largest aluminium smelters, said it has achieved the highest metal production in its 40-year history in 2011 with 881,310 metric tonnes, a substantial leap from 850,700 mtpa achieved the previous year.
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Kobe Steel to set up JV with Chinese aluminium firm
Mineweb | December 21, 2011The JV will build an aluminium products company that will have annual production of about 200,000 tonnes of products, the companies said Wednesday.
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Shenhua invests $21b to produce alumina from coal ash
China Daily | December 18, 2011China Shenhua Group, the country’s largest coal producer, on Sunday kicked off construction on a project capable of producing alumina from coal ash, a waste byproduct of thermal power generation.
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