China's East Hope Group could build an alumina refinery with capacity of 2 million tonnes per year and a smelter capable of producing 1 million tonnes of aluminum per year in Kazakhstan.

Uzbekistan is carrying out financial reforms and planning to make goods of technological minerals with support of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said.

Recent rains may have provided the world’s most populous nation some relief from scorching summer heat, but they shattered state-owned mining giant Coal India’s hopes of denting record-high inventories.

India is set to retain its position as the world’s second-largest primary aluminium producer, with a record-breaking monthly output in the opening month (April) of FY2025-26.

The space is designed to improve safety, productivity and automation in the mining industry

Global miner Rio Tinto is in talks with Australian federal and state governments about a multibillion-dollar bailout for its struggling Tomago aluminium smelter in New South Wales state

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Two-thirds of the funds will be spent on clean energy – twice as much as on fossil fuels