China’s top aluminum producer incurs huge loss in H1

Chalco attributed the loss to”a significant number of gains from capital operation”in the first half of 2013,and”a decrease of selling price by about 6 percent to 11 percent”in the first half of this year r. Half-year output of alumina chemicals jumped nearly 20 percent to 910000 tonnes,while output of primary aluminum products plunged nearly 20 percent to 1.63 million tonnes s.