Article: Alcoa's AWAC Opens Juruti Bauxite Mine in Brazil.

As part of Alcoa's (NYSE:AA) ongoing effort to continually move its global primary products operations down the cost curve, Alcoa today commissioned the opening of its new bauxite operations in Juruti, Brazil. The Juruti operations, which are part of the Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) joint venture with Alumina Limited in which Alcoa holds a 60 percent share, consist of a port facility, a mine and a 50 kilometer rail system to the port. Initial output at the mine will ramp up to 2.6 million metric tons per year (mtpy).

Bauxite from Juruti will be shipped to the Alumar alumina refinery in Sao Luis, Brazil which is undergoing a 2.1 million mtpy expansion ...

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