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Higher bauxite sourcing helps Vedanta cut alumina-making cost by 8%

Alumina production at Lanjigarh was up 16 per cent y-o-y to 476,000 tonnes

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File Photo: A bird flies past the logo of Vedanta installed on the facade of its headquarters in Mumbai | Photo: Reuters

Jayajit Dash Bhubaneswar
Higher sourcing of bauxite from local supplies helped Vedanta to prune cost of making alumina at its Lanjigarh refinery by 8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to $269 per tonne in Q3 of this fiscal.

Alumina production at Lanjigarh was up 16 per cent y-o-y to 476,000 tonnes. Lower alumina costs also led to cut in Cost of Production (CoP) of aluminium at $1691 per tonne. Vedanta Ltd said at a recent investor presentation that local bauxite was now meeting over half of the company's total requirement.

During April-December 2019, output at Lanjigarh refinery was up 24 per cent to reach

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