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Vietnam to start building bauxite/alumina plant

HANOI - A state-run company will start building Vietnam's first bauxite/alumina complex, expected to cost around $500 million, in April, a company source said on Wednesday. The Vietnam National Mineral Corporation would borrow up to $350 million from banks in Belgium, France, Germany and Japan to build a complex with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes of alumina in the central highland province of Lam Dong, the source said. "The government has approved the project and a ground breaking ceremony will be in April," the source close to the deal told Reuters.

Reuters - March 15, 2006.