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Tailings at Pinjarra have accumulated since 1972.

Alcoa’s mountains of red mud fail to pass stability checks

Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Optus Stadium more than 350 times in areas south of Perth that have failed to be certified as stable.

  • Peter Milne

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Bauxite extraction at the Huntly mine in Western Australia, owned by Alcoa and Alumina Limited.

WA’s environment regulator cuts efforts to protect nature around state to deal with Alcoa

The burden of enforcing special arrangements to allow Alcoa to keep mining bauxite has forced WA’s environment regulator to severely cut its efforts to protect nature throughout the rest of the state.

  • Peter Milne
Alcoa has cleared 28,000 hectares of the northern jarrah forest, which is under pressure in a drier, warmer climate and experiencing more bushfires.

On notice: WA watchdog sets Alcoa a deadline for mining approvals

The Environmental Protection Authority has warned Alcoa to provide the information it needs on time, or risk stricter conditions on its mining in WA forests.

  • Peter Milne
South32 mines bauxite at Boddington inland from Perth.

South32 shares slugged as WA alumina refinery comes under cloud

South32 will slash $830 million off the value of its WA alumina business in response to proposed environmental protections the miner says threaten the viability of its operations in the state.

  • Peter Milne
BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina refinery near Collie.

WA jarrah forest clearing given green light for Worsley bauxite mining

The OK for South32 to clear 39 square kilometres of jarrah forest near Boddington has been slammed as disgraceful by environmental groups.

  • Peter Milne
The 280 square kilometres of jarrah forest cleared by Alcoa to date makes its WA operation one of the biggest mines in the world.

Worries of ‘irreversible’ damage to jarrah forest by Alcoa revealed

Water Corporation concluded that contamination of Perth’s dams is “certain” but the state government heavily watered-down its recommendations to reduce the risks from bauxite mining.

  • Peter Milne
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Alcoa has mined WA’s jarrah forest for 61 years.

Alcoa boosts research amid concerns ‘extensive knowledge gaps’ threaten Perth’s water supply

Alcoa’s funding will support a forest research centre for five years and will also boost its own team of environmental researchers from four to eleven.

  • Peter Milne
Normally the ministers for water, state development and the environment approve Alcoa’s mining plan but for 2023 it was elevated to be a cabinet decsion.

WA government overrode water supply warnings to approve Alcoa mining

The WA environment regulator opposed Alcoa’s mining but proposed safeguards if it went ahead. The Cook government ignored the first recommendation and watered down the second.

  • Peter Milne
Alcoa blasting bauxite to prepare for mining near Serpentine Dam.

WA government to spend $10m monitoring Alcoa’s mining near Perth’s dams

Alcoa’s troubled bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forest will have extra government scrutiny costing $10.5 million over four years as the US miner seeks to repair its tarnished environmental credentials.

  • Peter Milne
The Portland aluminium smelter in Victoria’s south-west, in which Alumina owns a stake.

‘Not fit for purpose’: Merger will help struggling aluminium makers

Rationalisation in the alumina market will create the conditions for a brighter future for the industry, a fund manager says.

  • Simon Johanson

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