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Ireland "Finds" "No Evidence" Aughinish Alumina Exports to Russia Support War Effort (united24media.com)
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Aughinish Alumina submitted records indicating that the raw material sent to Russia is used strictly to produce aluminum for global commercial markets rather than military hardware. However, Irish officials stated they could not independently verify those claims.

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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well also the fact that Alumina is generally fungible so using Irish Alumina for global commercial markets frees up other sources to be used for military purposes...

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

both alumina and raw aluminum, it's alloyed to spec after smelting