Rio Tinto’s bet in the Québec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, to build the first big Western aluminum smelter in more than ...

The economics of electricity made Kitimat a good place to build an aluminum smelter, and U.S. tariffs might not do much to sway that equation.

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On one side are multinational giants such as BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale. They aim to maximise returns on the capital they put to ...

Rio Tinto bought Alcan in 2007. Today, the Kitimat smelter, known as BC Works, accounts for about 14 per cent of Canada’s aluminum production. The smelter employs more than 1,000 people and ...

“Canada has cheap hydro power.” Rio Tinto operates five aluminum smelters in Canada: Four in Quebec and one in B.C. Its BC Works smelter in Kitimat employs more than 1,000 workers. When ...

The two B.C. regions that include resource-reliant communities like Smithers, Vanderhoof and Terrace stand to lose the most ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rio Tinto Plc sold $9 billion of US investment-grade bonds Tuesday, raising funds for its just-closed acquisition of Arcadium Lithium Plc. The debt was sold in eight parts ...

located in the northwestern town of Kitimat, has landed square in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, leaving its owner scrambling to adjust. Rio Tinto’s B.C. Works ...

Rio Tinto’s BC Works aluminum smelter in KitimatRio Tinto Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per ...

“Canada has cheap hydro power.” Rio Tinto operates five aluminum smelters in Canada: Four in Quebec and one in B.C. Its BC Works smelter in Kitimat employs more than 1,000 workers. When contractors ...