Norway’s Norsk Hydro agreed Sept. 5 to pay 160 million reais ($38.5 million) in fines and cleanup projects following a dispute with Brazilian authorities over the discharge of untreated water from its Hydro Alunorte alumina facilities, the world’s largest.
Hydro Alunorte produces 6 million metric tons per year of alumina from bauxite, an amorphous, clay-like, commercial ore that is the raw material for making aluminum.
The Hydro Alunorte alumina production plant—owned by Norsk Hydro—is adjacent to Albras, a Norsk Hydro-Japanese joint venture that smelts the metal into aluminum.
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