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Chinese aluminium cuts are the tip of power iceberg

It’s not raining (enough) in Yunnan, a province in south-west China where low water levels in hydroelectric dams have forced power cuts to aluminium smelters which account for 12% of the country’s output of the metal.

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Coming at the same time as an industrial dispute threatens deliveries of aluminium from two smelters in Norway and the seeds might have been sown for a re-run of conditions which sent aluminium to an