General	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
General [Abstract]
General	General The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of Century Aluminum Company should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2013. In management’s opinion, the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are of a normal and recurring nature, that are necessary for a fair presentation of financial results for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the first six months of 2014 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2014. Throughout this Form 10-Q, and unless expressly stated otherwise or as the context otherwise requires, "Century Aluminum," "Century," the "Company", "we," "us," "our" and "ours" refer to Century Aluminum Company and its consolidated subsidiaries. In the second quarter of 2013, we acquired the Sebree smelter and reported provisional amounts for the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed in our Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2013. See Note 2 Acquisition of Sebree aluminum smelter for additional information. In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 805 "Business Combinations," we retrospectively adjusted our 2013 interim consolidated financial statements for certain measurement period adjustments for the items acquired in the acquisition and the financial results for 2013 presented in this Form 10-Q reflect these adjustments.

General

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2014

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements of Century Aluminum Company should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2013. In management’s opinion, the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements reflect all adjustments, which are of a normal and recurring nature, that are necessary for a fair presentation of financial results for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the first six months of 2014 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2014. Throughout this Form 10-Q, and unless expressly stated otherwise or as the context otherwise requires, "Century Aluminum," "Century," the "Company", "we," "us," "our" and "ours" refer to Century Aluminum Company and its consolidated subsidiaries.

In the second quarter of 2013, we acquired the Sebree smelter and reported provisional amounts for the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed in our Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2013. See Note 2 Acquisition of Sebree aluminum smelter for additional information. In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 805 "Business Combinations," we retrospectively adjusted our 2013 interim consolidated financial statements for certain measurement period adjustments for the items acquired in the acquisition and the financial results for 2013 presented in this Form 10-Q reflect these adjustments.