South32 will start standing down contractors and prepare to shutter its Mozal aluminium plant, saying it has little confidence it can reach a deal to secure affordable electricity to run the operations.
Daniel Newell
Alcoa’s new local chief Elsabe Muller insists the US bauxite giant is putting “all effort in” to win approvals to keep mining the State’s Jarrah Forest as the plans undergo lengthy public scrutiny.
Simone Grogan
Shares in South32 rose after the multi-commodity miner posted production gains despite previous setbacks at its cyclone-damaged manganese and civil unrest-afflicted Mozambique aluminium operations.
Mining giant Alcoa is banking on a lengthy delay before contentious plans to expand bauxite mining operations in WA’s South West jarrah forests get the final nod.
Cyclones in WA’s north took the wind of Rio Tinto’s sails to start 2025 and the mining giant is yet to get its iron ore shipment numbers back on course.
Adrian Rauso and Paul-Alain Hunt
There is a growing risk South32 will be forced to pull the plug on its Mozal aluminium operations in Mozambique as the diversified miner races against the clock to secure a new electricity supply deal.
A local bauxite aspirant with deep family roots is making a rare and well-timed debut on the ASX amid upheaval in West Africa.
Adrian Rauso
An iron ore hopeful led by Perth mining executive David Flanagan remains locked in a trading suspension as the Guinea Government moves to reclaim tenements in the resources-rich country.
Alcoa of Australia’s profit has more than tripled amid the shutdown of the Kwinana alumina refinery and broader moves to slash costs.
Matt Mckenzie
Rio Tinto’s CEO took the unusual step of hosting the company’s earnings from Washington, as part of a whirlwind trip to understand what Trump intends to accomplish with his expanding trade war.
Joe Deaux
Donald Trump’s war on free trade is not expected to cut into the WA arm of South32, which saw half-year profit more than sextuple on the back of rising commodity prices.
South32 will forge ahead mining more aluminium feedstock bauxite at Boddington within months after securing a crucial environmental approval from the Federal Government.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said President Donald Trump has agreed to consider an exemption for Australia from planned US tariffs on steel and aluminium during a telephone call.
Ben Westcott
The State and Federal Governments will spend $3 million looking into building a shared pilot plant for downstream producers of critical minerals.
South32 and Anglo American have now claimed almost $400 million from insurers to repair their cyclone-ravaged Australian manganese operation.
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Environment Minister Reece Whitby has signed off on South32’s contested plans for a major expansion to its bauxite operations in the Peel region, coinciding with a surge in prices for the aluminium feedstock.
WA’s Environment Minister has yielded to appeals lodged by South32 to loosen emissions and forest restoration rules as part of its long-awaited expansion to the Worsley Alumina operation in the South West.
Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell
Post-election turmoil in the southeast African nation of Mozambique has put a South32 mining operation that turns over more than $800 million a year in limbo.
Aluminium giant Alcoa will reactivate a mine site unused since 2014 in a last-ditch bid to replace ore from a stalled transition project and keep the Pinjarra refinery filled.
A South32-controlled venture has banked about $150 million from external insurers to rebuild a storm-ravaged wharf that ships all of the miner’s Australian manganese.
The livelihoods of 1700 Worsley Alumina workers will be at serious risk if WA’s environmental scrutineer is not overruled by the end of this year, South32 boss Graham Kerr has warned.
Demand for aluminium is continuing to grow – making it a key metal now and into the future. What is also key, is that this demand is met through responsible mining and processing.
Alcoa Australia
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