Vale slashes investment budget for third straight year to $14.8bn Budget for 2014 is 9.2% lower than last year’s and well below the $18 billion total from 2011. Cecilia Jamasmie | December 2, 2013 | 5:53 pm
Rio Tinto closing alumina refinery in Australia, 1,100 jobs to be lost The Gove refinery has been struggling for a while, due mainly to low prices. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 29, 2013 | 11:55 am
Aluminum prices follow gold’s steps, down to four-year low Market struggling with oversupply. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 28, 2013 | 6:23 pm
Guinea strikes $5bn mine deal with Abu Dhabi, Dubai Deal includes developing a bauxite mine and alumina refinery in the west African country. Cecilia Jamasmie | November 25, 2013 | 7:46 pm
Newly developed aluminum alloy stores hydrogen for fuel cells Aluminum-based alloy hydrides are light weight, non-toxic to plants and animals, and contain no volatile gas products, except hydrogen. MINING.com Editor | November 5, 2013 | 10:53 pm
Aluminum giant Alcoa struggles with power for its three smelters in Canada About 3,300 people would lose their jobs. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 30, 2013 | 12:45 pm
Rio sells stake in Clermont coal to Glencore for $1bn The mining giant is selling its 50.1% stake in Clermont coal mine to a company jointly owned by Glencore Xstrata and Sumitomo Corporation. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 25, 2013 | 12:24 pm
China to become world’s main consumer of base metals by 2017— report Wood Mackenzie also predicts the global base metals market will grow from 96Mt in 2013 to 122 Mt by the end of 2018. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 18, 2013 | 2:58 pm
Done deal: Rio sells mothballed Blair Athol coal mine to Linc Energy Acquisition comes a day after Linc said it wants to get de-listed from the Australian market to re-list it in Singapore, in hopes of luring Asian investors. Cecilia Jamasmie | October 4, 2013 | 2:10 pm
