UC Rusal’s new source of low-iron bauxite could help Russia’s refractories industry compete with low-cost Chinese imports, the Russian aluminium group said.The company plans to develop the Middle Timman bauxite deposit in the Republic of Komi, north-western Russia, into a 90,000 tpa mine by 2012, before expanding to 250,000 tpa in 2013.The world’s largest aluminium producer, Rusal, mines bauxite for its in-house metals production, but the new mine will see it for the first time supplying non-metallurgical end markets.Rusal said it was considering moving into operations to calcine bauxite at its Boksitogorsk alumina refinery, Leningrad oblast, for direct...