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• n  a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite

• The aluminum shortage was officially buried last week, on the anniversary of the first big aluminum scare.
• The West Coast, hopeful of a great postwar future for its $190,000,000 war-born aluminum industry, has recently been beset by a horrid rumor.
• Electroplating stout metals with aluminum was described at the Chicago Institute of the American Chemical Society last week.

• aluminium
• Al
• atomic number 13

News & Articles

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• Rio Tinto invests in French aluminum plant to cut power costs
  By Geert De Clercq DUNKIRK, France (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has invested nearly 80 million euros in its Dunkirk aluminum plant in the past 18 months and plans to invest at least that much again over the next five years on energy saving and efficiency improvements. The largest aluminum plant in the European Union with 2012 production of 286,600 tons, seaside Dunkirk is the biggest single-point user ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Century, Big Rivers, Kenergy file agreement with KY Public Service Commission
  Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a wholly owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum, Kenergy and Big Rivers Electric announced that they have finalized and filed with the Kentucky Public Service Commission definitive ...
  June 12, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
• Century, Big Rivers and Kenergy File Definitive Energy Agreements With the Kentucky Public Service Commission
  Century Aluminum of Kentucky, a wholly owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company , Kenergy Corp. and Big Rivers Electric Corp. today announced that they have finalized and filed with the Kentucky Public ...
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Alain Belda in International Herald Tribune
  Alcoa Chairman and CEO Alain Belda said Rio Tinto's bid "strongly reinforces our view of the underlying value in the aluminum industry and its bright prospects for the future."
• Ray Tanner in The Associated Press
  I think there's some traditionalist in all of us,said South Carolina's Ray Tanner, whose contract calls for him to receive $120,000 a year from Easton. "That being said, aluminum bats are in college baseball because of costs. I'm not sure...
• Philip Schiller in TechShout! (blog)
  The sleek, aluminum Mac mini packs great features, versatility and value into an elegant, amazingly compact design,mentioned Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With twice the graphics...