India's largest aluminium maker, Vedanta Aluminium has resumes operations at its alumina refinery in after a halt of ten days.

However, company officials indicated that the company might face another halt in production in December if it is unable to secure supplies of more bauxite. The company's refinery in the state with a capacity of 1 million tonne per annum was closed down on October 12 after it used up all supplies of bauxite, which is a crucial material in the production of alumina.

It secured some supplies and the production reopened on Monday at a reduced capacity. The Lanjigarh refinery in Kalahandi district is located 450 km from Bhubaneswar and is facing bauxite supply shortages since it opened in August 2007.

VAL President Mukesh Kumar said, "We have restarted operations based on the bauxite we have sourced from Gujarat and Chhattisgarh with which we may be able to run it up to December 5 at reduced capacity of around 60 per cent."

Mr. Kumar said that the disruption may not have an impact on the company's production output as it is aiming to use imports. The company had faced an earlier disruption of two months earlier than envisaged.