ALUMINA SNAPSHOT: Alumina price hits five-month high on reduced Alunorte output

Key information from the pricing session for Fastmarkets' daily alumina index, fob Australia, on Thursday August 20.

The index was $284.30 per tonne on Thursday, its highest since March 18 this year when it was $297.23 per tonne, and was up by 7% since the beginning of this week.
Key drivers

Production at Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil has been reduced to 35-45% of capacity. Hydro announced on August 18 that it had halted operation of the pipeline transporting bauxite from its...

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