Aluminium jumps as Guinea coup attempt fuels supply concerns

Expensive material: Workers walk through an aluminium ingot depot in Wuxi, China. Aluminium has climbed about 40% this year in London. — Reuters

LONDON: Aluminium climbed to the highest in more than a decade as political unrest in Guinea fuelled concerns over supply of the raw material needed to make the metal.

A unit of the military seized power and suspended the constitution, with head of special forces, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, urging the army to back him.