Western Australia's Kwinana is scarred, and Yarloop is divided. As red dust swirls and sludge lakes loom, Pinjarra residents wonder if the mining money is worth the sacrifices. The post Alcoa’s ...

Alcoa has mined and refined bauxite in Western Australia since 1963. The company owns sprawling industrial facilities along the southwestern coast, including its largest, at Pinjarra; Wagerup ...

Alcoa, Pinjarra: Five workers suffer toxic burns in horror chemical spill at mining refinery. Multiple workers suffer burns; Two rushed to hospital following chemical spill ...

Two people suffered burns in the spill at Alcoa's Pinjarra refinery Three others in the area at the time were assessed as fit to return to work WorkSafe is investigating the incident Authorities ...

George Walley, a Noongar elder, sits at the edge of an Alcoa mine site near Jarrahdale, in Western Australia, on March 24, 2025. This story was originally published by PublicSource, a nonprofit ...

Alcoa is storing enough caustic bauxite residue to fill Perth’s Optus Stadium more than 350 times, in areas that have failed to be certified as stable, at three refineries in Kwinana, Pinjarra ...

Alcoa has three alumina refineries in WA at Kwinana, Pinjarra and Wagerup. Credit: Alcoa Medics at the site treated three workers and the others – a man in his 30s and another in his 60s ...

Alcoa announced on Tuesday that it plans to shut down its 60-year-old alumina refinery at Kwinana, south of Perth in Western Australia (WA). Part of the Kwinana refinery [Photo by Calistemon / CC ...

In early January, Alcoa's Kwinana and Pinjarra refineries converted to diesel as an immediate and temporary fuel source for some operational needs. As a result, the company reduced production at ...

Alcoa Corp said on Thursday it reverted to using gas to fuel boilers at its partially owned Kwinana and Pinjarra alumina refineries in Western Australia, a week after the aluminium producer had ...

Since 1963, Alcoa has mined bauxite from the foothills of Australia’s Darling Range under a special political agreement that skirts regulation, guarantees access to scarce water and assures low ...