Global Alumina Announces Joint Venture Budget Approval

Global Alumina Corporation (TSX: GLA.U) (the "Company" or "Global Alumina"), a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project"), announced that the joint venture board of directors approved additional Project funding of $4.0 million for the period July 1, 2011 through July 31, 2011.  Global Alumina will be responsible for its one-third share of this amount.  The joint venture board had previously approved cumulative Project funding from inception through June 2011 of $760.8 million of which $739.1 million was incurred or prepaid through May 2011 and $735.9 million has been funded to date.

Global Alumina has approximately $33.6 million in cash, $26.1 million of which is in escrow available for Project development and $7.5 million of which is unrestricted and available for general corporate purposes.  The Company also has a $33.3 million subscription receivable due to the Company on the completion of the Project debt financing.