FACTBOX-Mines and plants hit by low prices, high costs
Jan 21 - Eramet said it will cut its output of manganese ore and alloy in first quarter 2009. [ID:nLL351741]
Jan 21 - Anglo Platinum (Angloplat) (AMSJ.J) plans to trim production, a South African union official said. [ID:nLL154574]
Jan 21 - Columbia Falls Aluminum is to curtail the last operating potline at its 168,000 tonnes per year (tpy) smelter in the United States. [ID:nLL482319]
Jan 21 - BHP Billiton will close its Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Australia, reduce activity at Mount Keith nickel mine and put Pinto Valley copper operations in the United States on care and maintenance in February. [ID:nSYD409818]
Jan 20 - OceanaGold (OGC.AX) (OTC.TO) said may slash planned investment in the stalled Didipio gold-copper project in the Philippines due to funding difficulties. [ID:nSP383612]
Jan 20 - Rio Tinto Alcan said plans to cut another six percent of aluminium output and will also cut alumina production, shed 1,100 employees to cut costs. [ID:nLK644921]
Jan 20 - Anglo American Plc (AAL.L) said it has temporarily halted production at Loma nickel mine in Venezuela, partly due to high transport costs. [ID:nLK562927]
Jan 19 - Saudi Arabian Mining Co (Maaden) said will delay by three years the start of production at a planned aluminium smelter after Rio Tinto Alcan abandoned the project. [ID:nLJ559330]
