The general strike is aimed at toppling the country's long-ruling president, Lansana Conte, who seized power in a 1984 coup and has refused to step down in spite of rumors of ill-health.
Rusal has contingency plans in place to provide a regular supply of alumina to its smelters from other sources in the event that the situation in Guinea worsens, Kurochkina added.
Rusal is the manager of the Compagnie de Bauxite de Kindia bauxite mining complex, which has an estimated capacity of 3 million metric tons a year.
The complex consists of the Debele mine, a railroad connecting the mine with the Conakry port, and the port itself. An average number of 4-5 vessels carrying bauxite leaves Conakry for Rusal's Nikolayev alumuina refinery in Ukraine each month.
The company also manages the Alumina Company of Guinea, which has an annual bauxite capacity of 2.8 million tons a year and an alumina refinery capacity at its Friguia plant of 780,000 tons.
Guinea, a key bauxite producer along with Australia and Jamaica, dominates African production of the raw material. The west African nation contains 30% of the world's reserves and accounts for 94% of African bauxite production.
Four metric tons of bauxite make two tons of alumina which in turn is smelted to produce one ton of aluminum.
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