Vedanta's alumina cost hits two-year low on availability of coal, bauxite

Vedanta is currently working on the ramp-up of the Lanjigarh refinery

Enhanced availability of coal from linked mines as well as peak output from its captive Chotia block has helped Vedanta achieve cost competitiveness in manufacture of alumina.

By the end of June this year, Vedanta’s cost of alumina at Odisha’s Lanjigarh refinery fell to a two-year low of $284 per tonne, a drop of 17 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y). In volume terms, the alumina production was the highest ever, showing a spike of 37 per cent y-o-y.

Vedanta’s Chotia coal block in Chhattisgarh operated at peak capacity of 1 million tonne per annum. Also, the materialisation of linked coal improved from 66