EU drops Rio Tinto Alcan antitrust case

Bauxite is booming in Queensland with Rio Tinto Alcan’s (RTA) A$1.2B South of Embley (SoE) mine and port project overcoming 12 months of regulatory hurdles and the long-delayed Aurukun project in western Cape York finding new proponents.

Rio Tinto Alcan has officially opened its $2.5B Yarwun alumina refinery expansion in Gladstone.

The Port of Richards Bay, South Africa’s largest bulk export facility, has taken delivery of a custom-built pneumatic shipunloader, manufactured by Switzerland-based Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) Alesa Engineering Ltd.

Rio Tinto Alcan has said that it will close the Lynemouth aluminium smelter in Northumberland, England on 29 March 2012.

Rio Tinto has said that it is streamlining its aluminium product group following a strategic review.

Rio Tinto is to invest in its Canadian aluminium smelters to improve production efficiency through modernisation and expansion.