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Sixteen first-year apprentices have walked through the gates of Queensland Alumina Limited, Boyne Smelters Limited and Rio Tinto Yarwun to begin careers in the aluminium industry.
The apprentices are all from Gladstone studying electrical instrumentation, air-conditioning and refrigeration, fitting and turning and boilermaking across the three businesses. QAL Apprentices: Jaize Whelan, McKinley Pope, Royce Parnaby, Teah Daley, Bill Dwan, and Kate Smith.
Through CQUniversity, the apprentices will gain practical, on-the-job training and formal qualifications during their four or five-year trades.
The group will also be provided with mentors within the business to assist, challenge and inspire them throughout their training.
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Last year, RTA s Weipa bauxite mine had a yield of 35 million tonnes, while 12.3 million tonnes came from Gove. Rio Tinto s 2020 fourth quarter production report details the activities of Gladstone refineries over the year. QAL produced 3.701 million tonnes of alumina in 2020, while Yarwun produced 3.175 million tonnes. Boyne Smelters Limited processed the alumina into 510,000 tonnes of aluminium in 2020. According to these figures, about 28 million tonnes of bauxite is needed to run the refineries at Yarwun and QAL. From this 28 million tonnes of bauxite, about 7 million tonnes of alumina is produced, which BSL could turn into 3.5 million tonnes of aluminium. If current production rates at Weipa and Gove are maintained, it is understood enough bauxite remains to continue refining at Yarwun and QAL for about 25 years.
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