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Rusal's Guinea bauxite exports grind to a halt amid war

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Russia's Rusal produced 3.8 million tonnes of aluminium last year - 5.6% of the world's supply of the lightweight metal used in everything from satellites and planes to cans and toasters.

Unlike several other Russian companies, Rusal is not under sanctions, although its billionaire founder Oleg Deripaska is.

That output is even more critical now that Australia - the world's top bauxite producer - has banned exports to Russia and Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said it would sever ties with Russian businesses. Rusal's Dian-Dian mines in Guinea, which have historically supplied bauxite to its Aughinish refinery in Co Limerick, last shipped ore on March 12, according to an analysis of Refinitiv shipping data. Its Kindia operations, meanwhile, last exported on February 26.

Bauxite mined at Kindia would typically be sent to the Nikolaev alumina refinery in southern Ukraine. Earlier this month, Rusal told Reuters its Guinea operations had not stopped producing and it did not plan to lay off staff.

 

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