Alunorte production cut

The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainability in the Brazilian state of Pará (SEMAS) issued a statement late on Monday stating it will order Norwegian aluminium company Norsk Hydro ASA’s alumina refinery Alunorte to cut production by 50 percent due to non-compliance with a resolution to achieve a freeboard of 1 meter in the bauxite residue deposit DRS1.  In addition, SEMAS said it would order the Paragominas bauxite mine to suspend operations at one of two tailing dams at the plant. SEMAS said it would formally notify the company on Tuesday, 27 February. In the original resolution from Friday, 23 February,…