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What are the top aluminum-producing countries? China’s output was the highest by far in 2020. Aluminum is an important industrial metal used in a wide range of applications and considered a critical metal to economies around the world. Aluminum is one of the Earth’s most abundant metals and is produced from cryolite and bauxite mining. This is because the two minerals are large sources of aluminum; bauxite is processed to create alumina, which is then refined to create aluminum. Aluminum is one of the most in-demand industrial metals because it is extremely versatile. The silvery metal i...

EnergyColumn: Shanghai aluminium soars as China’s production stalls Andy Home 1/2 Workers walk through an aluminium ingots depot in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China, September 26, 2012. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo Read More Shanghai aluminium prices last week hit their highest since 2010 as the Chinese market gears up for a seasonal demand peak. The Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) aluminium contract continues to outperform international prices amid high volumes and open interest with no sign that anyone is being scared off by the increasingly strident official warnings about speculative h...

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Aluminum price hit 11-year high as new capacity comes on stream China’s March aluminum output rose from a year earlier to a monthly record, official data showed on Friday, despite curbs on energy use in the smelting hub of Inner Mongolia, as new capacity came on stream. Primary aluminum output in the world’s top producer was up 8.5% year-on-year at 3.28 million tonnes in March, the National Bureau of Statistics said, beating the previous monthly high of 3.27 million tonnes reached in December 2020. Sign Up for the Australasia Digest Sign Up High prices are incentivising production, with S...

(Updates prices) LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Copper prices slumped on Tuesday as investors shed some of their bullish positions on uncertainty ahead of central bank meetings. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) had dropped 1.9% to $8,970 a tonne by 1700 GMT while prices on Comex fell 1.6% to $4.075 per pound. Copper hit a 9-1/2 year peak of $9,617 last month, having surged by 24% since the start of the year. “There’s lots of positive news already priced in, lots of positive expectations about electric vehicles. It’s quite natural for some of the smart money to take prof...