11:04 AM EST - Alcan Inc. : has again upped costs estimates for expansion and upgrading of its Gove alumina refinery in Australia to US$2.3 billion and pushed out its startup date to the second quarter of 2007. The major aluminum firm had initially pegged the cost to expand Gove at $1.5 billion, but that estimate was raised to about $1.9 billion last September. Alcan Inc.
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