A-grade achievement for Rio Tinto at Amrun
Rio Tinto has completed commissioning of the $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite mine on the Cape York Peninsula, with an official opening today to mark the achievement.
The mine and associated processing and port facilities will replace production from Rio Tinto’s depleting East Weipa mine and increase annual bauxite export capacity by about 10 million tonnes.
Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Matt Canavan said the new mine would help keep Australia in the world’s No. 1 position in the production of bauxite and exports of aluminium.
“The higher-grade bauxite being mined at Amrun is becoming scarcer. . .
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