January 29, 2012 Rio Tinto Alcan employee passes away following fatal incident on the Roberval-Saguenay railway in Quebec Rio Tinto Alcan confirms an employee has succumbed to their injuries following an incident on the Roberval-Saguenay railway in Quebec.
January 29, 2012 BHP Billiton to Halt Bauxite Exploration at Guinea and rsquo;s Boffa Site BHP 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…
January 28, 2012 Rusal to downsize production due to economic environment UC 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.
January 26, 2012 Kaolin to alumina process development Australia 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…
January 12, 2012 Norsk Hydro to cut 250 jobs in aluminium plant restructure Global 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…
January 7, 2012 Alba hits record metal production in 2011 Aluminium 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…
January 1, 2012 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…
December 21, 2011 Kobe Steel to set up JV with Chinese aluminium firm The JV will build an aluminium products company that will have annual production of about 200,000 tonnes of products, the companies said Wednesday.
December 18, 2011 Shenhua invests $21b to produce alumina from coal ash China 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.
December 16, 2011 Power cut hits Rio-owned UK aluminium smelter One of the production lines at Rio Tinto Alcan's Lynemouth aluminium smelter was knocked off line by a power cut, while production was partially curtailed at the other.
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