Global aluminum producer Alcoa has offered third-quarter term shipments at a $408/mt premium to London Metal Exchange cash, CIF Japan, Japanese buyers said Thursday. The premium is for primary aluminum ingot to be shipped to Japanese main ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and Australian solar energy firm Ingenero have announced an agreement for the development of the Weipa ...
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Trimet Aluminium SE, one of Germany’s leading aluminum manufacturers, has made a binding offer to take over two production plants of Rio Tinto Alcan in France. With the new locations, Trimet intends to expand on the successful ...
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Japanese buyers have agreed an aluminium premium of USD 240 per tonne with Rio Tinto Alcan for some January to March shipments, down from a record this quarter, reflecting easing demand as the world’s third largest economy slips into ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan and the employees represented by the Canadian Auto Workers Union have ratified an agreement for the early renewal and extension of labour contracts in Saguenay, Quebec to 2018. The agreement also includes a clause for the ...
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Reuters reported that Global producers of aluminium ingots are turning away yearly premiums in favour of quarterly pricing for 2013 term shipments to Asia to take advantage of spot premiums that scaled records this year. Traders said that ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan announced it expects to spend USD 528 million over the next 3 years developing is new South of Embley bauxite mine located near Weipa in Queensland’s Far North. The project’s developers have commenced meetings ...
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France is considering nationalizing an aluminium plant owned by Anglo Australian mining group Rio Tinto. The potential move is being studied by officials working for Arnaud Montebourg, the Industrial Recovery minister, just 10 days after ...
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Reuters reported that Japanese buyers have agreed an aluminium premium of USD 240 per tonne with Rio Tinto Alcan for some January to March shipments down from a record USD 254 to USD 255 PREM ALUM JP in the previous quarter. Sources ...
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Canadian Business reported that a hit to electricity contracts with aluminum smelters reduced Hydro Quebec's profits in the Q3. Excluding a charge related to the planned closure of the Gentilly-2 nuclear reactor the public utility's ...
Rio Tinto Alcan announced the draft Commonwealth Environmental Impact Statement for the South of Embley Project. Mr Pat Fiore Rio president & CEO of Tinto Alcan, Bauxite and Alumina said that the project will extend bauxite mining ...
New Zealand's largest electricity producer,Meridian Energy has resumed talks with Rio Tinto Alcan,the majority owner of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter over Rio's request for changes to 18 year contracts for power supply that kick in on ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan released the draft Commonwealth Environmental Impact Statement for the South of Embley Project. Mr Pat Fiore Rio Tinto Alcan president and CEO Bauxite and Alumina said that the project will extend bauxite mining operations ...
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ABC reported that a large scale bauxite mine expansion on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is a step closer with the release of a new environmental impact statement. Public feedback for the proposed USD 1.5 billion South of ...
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