Yarwun alumina refinery

Yarwun was Rio Tinto's first 100% owned and operated refinery. Production feeds the company's Bell Bay and Tiwai Point smelters, with the balance to the third party market. We do not include YAR3 in our base case. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics to ultimately produce our industry standard cash operating costs. This report contains a detailed asset note giving you a holistic view of the asset, including an operational overview through to a timeline of events from inception to now. This qualitative analysis is supplemented by the associated Excel download which enables interrogation of a whole series of cost and production metrics over the life of the asset.