In 2024, Alcoa announced it would shut down its Kwinana alumina refinery with a phased ‘curtailment’ of the facility ongoing. Alcoa still employs about 240 people at Kwinana, down from the ...

Kwinana Industrial Area, located 30 km from the Perth metropolitan area, in Western Australia. KCR is a proposed cobalt/nickel facility representing Australia’s first cobalt sulphate refinery ...

It still employs about 240 people at Kwinana, but that is down from 1,000 when the refinery was fully operational. It also continues to export alumina from its Pinjarra refinery through its port ...

The incident happened at Alcoa’s Kwinana Alumina Refinery.Credit: Philip Gostelow/Bloomberg The spill, which was first revealed by WAtoday in 2023, was one of 40 such incidents under the miner ...

Australian mining company Cobalt Blue has signed a pre-final investment decision (pre-FID) consortium deed with Iwatani Australia (IWA) to move the Kwinana Cobalt Refinery (KCR) project in Western ...

The State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has announced the full commencement of construction for its alumina refinery in Guinea, a significant step in strengthening economic ties between ...