State-run National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) will bring Pottangi greenfield bauxite mining project into production by 2023 to support raw material supplies for its alumina refinery plant in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The three-million-ton-a-year Pottangi mines would be linked for raw material supplies to allow Nalco to install its fifth stream at the alumina refinery at Damajodi. The new stream, entailing an investment of $789-million, would add one-million tons a year of alumina production to the plant’s existing template capacity of 2.1-million tons a year.
