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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

with Kitimat now back at full capacity; and copper production rose 7% Y/Y to 156K tons on a consolidated basis. For FY 2024, Rio Tinto (RIO) kept its annual shipment guidance of 323M-338M metric ...

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

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.

“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 ...

“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 ...