Pocos de Caldas: a bauxite operation in Brazil
Pocos de Caldas is an open-pit mine producing bauxite in Pocos de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, operated by Alcoa. The sources report 0.5 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 500,000 tonnes: about 0.1% of world bauxite output in 2025 and about 1.5% of Brazil's; it is one of 9 operations on this site whose output can be stated in bauxite.
Who owns and operates it?
| Owner | Interest | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Alcoa | 100% | 31 December 2025 |
How much does it produce?
| Period | Output | Basis | Where in the source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CY2025 | 0.5 million dry metric tons (mdmt), 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, Pocos de Caldas (Minas Gerais), 2025 column · Alcoa Corporation |
| CY2024 | 0.4 million dry metric tons (mdmt), zero-moisture basis | 100% 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 25.0%, in the same unit and on the same basis.
How the bauxite figure is worked out. Alcoa prints 0.5 million dry metric tons (zero-moisture basis) of attributable production for Pocos de Caldas 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.
- The 10-K says the Pocos de Caldas refinery had 214,000 metric tons per year of idle capacity at 31 December 2025; the refinery is separate from this bauxite mine entry, as are all alumina refineries and aluminum smelters.
- Alcoa prints the figure to the nearest 0.1 million tonnes, so the share is rounded accordingly.
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), Juruti, Paragominas, Panchpatmali bauxite mines. In Brazil: Porto Trombetas (Mineracao Rio do Norte), Juruti, Paragominas. See where bauxite comes from for the country totals, the country page for Brazil, and Alcoa for its other operations here.
Sources
- Alcoa Corporation: Form 10-K for the year ended 31 December 2025 (annual report (SEC 10-K), FY2025 (calendar), with 2024 and 2023 comparatives). Opened 4 November 2026; used: cover page; printed pp.3, 10, 32-35, 46 (Item 1 Alumina segment; Item 2 Properties, bauxite production, interests and mine types tables).
- U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Bauxite and Alumina (government statistical summary, 2025 (world and country bauxite mine production)). Opened 3 November 2026; used: world mine production and reserves table.
Method and limits
- Reported, not estimated. Output is the figure the operator or owner published, in the unit it used. This site does not estimate output where none is published.
- Shares. A share divides output in bauxite by the USGS world or country total for 2025. Where the operator's year is a fiscal year or the unit is a concentrate or a carbonate equivalent, the share is approximate or not given.
- What is compared. Operators print tonnes of bauxite on a dry or wet basis, or do not say which. USGS bauxite mine production is in dry tonnes, so where the basis differs or is not stated the share is indicative.
- Whole operation or owner's share. The basis column says which. A joint venture's output is never counted twice.
- Partial list. Only operations with a published figure are listed, so the rank is among those on this site, not among every bauxite mine. Shares of a country's output mix periods and bases, so treat them as indicative.
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