Vedanta's alumina output dips 8% on lower bauxite availability

Alumina production by Vedanta for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 fell eight per cent year-on-year as bauxite availability from its captive mines held by Group company BALCO shrank. 

The total alumina output in July-September quarter was 269,000 tonnes as against 292,000 tonnes achieved in the corresponding period of the last financial year. When compared to the April-June quarter, alumina output at Vedanta's Lanjigarh refinery in south Odisha was down by 11 per cent.

A source at Vedanta attributed the dip in production to logistics constraints. “There are transportation issues. We did not get sufficient rakes to carry bauxite from BALCO mines