Processing Projects

Rio Tinto Alcan and joint venture partners | extension works including furnace and crane upgrading | $685m | under construction | www.riotintoalcan.com

Gladstone Pacific Nickel | proposal for new nickel and cobalt refinery | $3.6b | on hold | www.gladstonepacific.com.au

Boulder Steel | proposed steel plant to be built in two stages; first construction planned in 2012 | $1.8b | bankable feasibility study | www.bouldersteel.com.au

Incitec Pivot | new ammonium nitrate manufacturing plant; to begin production 2012 | $935m | under construction | www.incitecpivot.com.au

Rio Tinto Alcan | expansion project to more than double alumina production from 2012 | $2.1b | under construction | www.riotintoalcan.com