Commodity Origins

Juruti: a bauxite operation in Brazil

Juruti is an open-pit mine producing bauxite in Juruti, Para, Brazil, operated by Alcoa. The sources report 6.7 million dry metric tons (mdmt), zero-moisture basis for CY2025; the basis is 100% of the property, as reported by the operator (zero-moisture basis). Measured as bauxite, whole-operation output for CY2025 is 6,700,000 tonnes: about 1.5% of world bauxite output in 2025 and about 20% of Brazil's; it is one of 9 operations on this site whose output can be stated in bauxite.

Who owns and operates it?

Owners of Juruti
OwnerInterestAs of
Alcoa (operator)
The 10-K prints Alcoa's owners' mining rights as 100%, with Alcoa World Alumina Brasil (AWAB) as operator.
100%31 December 2025

Interests are as stated in the sources below on the date shown. Ownership changes with deals, so a stake may have changed since the date shown.

How much does it produce?

Reported output of Juruti
PeriodOutputBasisWhere in the source
CY20256.7 million dry metric tons (mdmt), zero-moisture basis
The 10-K says Juruti produces washed and unwashed bauxite and that all tonnage is presented on a zero-moisture basis.
100% of the property, as reported by the operator (zero-moisture basis)printed p.33, 'Summary of Attributable Annual Bauxite Production in mdmt', row Brazil, Juruti (Para State), 2025 column; moisture statement in the Juruti individual property disclosure · Alcoa Corporation
CY20245.6 million dry metric tons (mdmt), zero-moisture basis100% of the property, as reported by the operator (zero-moisture basis)printed p.33, same row, 2024 column · Alcoa Corporation

Between CY2024 and CY2025 the reported figure rose by 19.6%, in the same unit and on the same basis.

How the bauxite figure is worked out. Alcoa prints 6.7 million dry metric tons (zero-moisture basis) of attributable production for Juruti in 2025. Alcoa's owners' mining rights are 100%, so the figure covers the whole property. The 10-K rounds to 0.1 million tons. Converted from million tons to tonnes. World bauxite mine production in 2025 was 440,000,000 tonnes (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026); Brazil produced 33,000,000 tonnes.

Status: operating, as of 31 December 2025.

How does it compare?

Other bauxite operations on this site: Weipa (including Amrun), Gove, Porto Trombetas (Mineracao Rio do Norte), Sangaredi (Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee), Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB), Boffa (Chalco Guinea), Pingguo, Shanxi New Materials mines (merged line), Darling Range (Huntly and Willowdale), Pocos de Caldas, Paragominas, Panchpatmali bauxite mines. In Brazil: Porto Trombetas (Mineracao Rio do Norte), Pocos de Caldas, Paragominas. See where bauxite comes from for the country totals, the country page for Brazil, and Alcoa for its other operations here.

Sources

Method and limits