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Alcoa Says One Supplier Likely Provided Conflict Minerals in 2025 Period

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Alcoa (ASX:AAI) said an internal review found that one supplier likely provided the company with conflict minerals for products that it manufactured in 2025, according to a Monday filing with the Australian bourse.

Conflict minerals are natural resources often extracted in conflict zones in Africa and sold to fund armed violence and human rights abuses.

Tin is the only conflict mineral the company identified in its 2025 review.

Alcoa believes that the 2025 conflict minerals included in its products either did not originate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or adjoining countries, which are covered under the global conflict minerals mandate, or were from scrap or recycled materials, the company said.

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