Mettur

Plant in India with commodity Aluminum, Contained or Metal
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Ownership information
  10. Production statistics
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10134032
MAS/MILS ID 5330431016
Record type Site
Current site name Mettur
Alternate or previous names Metturcoimbatur

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: 77.85038, 11.8837 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

India(country)

Asia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
India

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum, Contained or Metal Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) 77.85038, 11.8837

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Year of first production 1968
Plant type Smelter
Plant subcategory Smelter-Pyrometallurgy

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Madras Aluminium Co. Ltd. (Subsid. Kcp Ltd.)
    Home office India
    Year 1988
  • Type Owner
    Owner Kcp Ltd.
    Interest 73
    Home office India
    Year 1988
  • Type Owner
    Owner Montecatini-Fidson S. P. A.
    Interest 27
    Home office India
    Year 1988

Production statistics

  • Year 1980
    Period 1979-1980
    Description Pub. Al Metal Production/1979-1980 22000 Mtpy Al Metal
  • Year 1981
    Description Pub. Al Metal Production 15000 Mtpy Al Metal
  • Year 1982
    Description Pub. Al Metal Production 25000 Mtpy Al Metal
  • Year 1983
    Description Pub. Al Metal Production 5000 Mtpy Al Metal

Comments on the production information

  • 1987 AL-STUDY, ALUMINA INPUT ESTIMATE FOR 1987 IS 48,250 MTPY ALUMINA. 1987 AL-STUDY, AL METAL PRODUCTION EST. FOR 1987 IS 24,998 MTPY AL METAL.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • CAPACITY IS BASED ON AL METAL. SMELTER CLOSED IN 1991, RE-OPENING CONSIDERED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    1980-1985, PG. 251.

  • Deposit

    BOM/MINERALS AVAILABILITY PROGRAM, CONTRACT #J0245003,

  • Deposit

    "PRIMATY POST-MILL ALUMINUM SMELTING FACILITIES 1983:

  • Deposit

    A DATA BANK", OCTOBER 1, 1985.

  • Deposit

    BOM/BRANCH OF NONFERROUS METALS, "PRIMARY ALUMINUM PLANTS

  • Deposit

    WORLDWIDE", PART I - DETAIL, PAGE 15; PART II - SUMMARY

  • Deposit

    PAGE 142.

  • Deposit

    IBA/EB/XLII/5/88, 30D.

  • Deposit

    BROOK HUNT AND ASSOCIATES LTD., ALUMINUM SMETLER DATA,

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MILS, "YEAR OF INITIAL PRODUCTION" IS THE YEAR OF START- UP. ALL DATA BASE DATA IS BASED ON THE 1987 ALUMINUM AVAILABILITY AND SUPPLY STUDY. DATE IS AS OF 1987, 1988 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. ALL GRADE DATA IS IN TERMS OF WT PCT CONTAINED ALUMINUM. THE CAPACITY DATA FIELDS ON THE CONCENTRATOR AND PRODUCT SETS THE "DESIGN CAPACITY" AND "CAPACITY" UNITS ARE IN TERMS OF MT OF ALUMINA (AL2O3) CONCENTRATE PER DAY, IE, "MT CONC/DAY". COST IS JAN 1987 US DOLLARS. THE PRODUCT DATA SET, FIELD "OUTPUT CAPACITY", UNITS ARE IN TERMS OF MT ALUMINUM METAL PRODUCTION PER DAY, IE, "MT COMMOD/DAY". COST IS JAN 1987 US DOLLARS. TRANSPORTATION DATA FOR THIS SMELTER IS UNKNOWN. THE DATA ENTERED ONTO THE DATA BASE WAS USED IN THE ALUMINUM AVAILABILITY AND SUPPLY STUDY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-SEP-95 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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