Some news now from a little known aluminum producing country who silently invests.

Its sole aluminum producer is one of the club of Soderbergs continuous-anode smelters being gradually updated to state of the art level. Two major smelter investments on hold are going to be resumed.This country nationalizes its integrated aluminum industry and forgets key subsidiaries in its decrees. This wise producer abandons South Africa to pursue investments... guess where? Click and scroll a bit down. The International Finance Corporation is supporting investment in this other smelter, betting on excellent long term perspectives. In North America, a supreme court accepts an appeal against a judgment blocking one of the best extension investments available in the world: Will it get the project moving at last? In this other country, deregulation of the energy generation industry opens excellent perspectives - scroll down, search for sentence 'the electricity sector followed' - for another project on hold. This major integrated metals producer bets on the long term with an investment of - scroll way down - close to 10 billion dollars in all steps of metals production. And... will an old suitor finally have another go at merging his own debts with Rio Tinto's?