Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Effective federal statutory tax rate	21.00%
Income tax expense benefits on losses valuation reserves	$ 0
Alcoa Canada Company [Member]
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Net deferred tax assets	$ 80,000,000	$ 137,000,000

Income tax expense benefit on losses in jurisdictions with full valuation reserves.

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Income taxes.

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Amount before allocation of valuation allowances of deferred tax asset attributable to deductible temporary differences and carryforwards.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (b)
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Percentage of domestic federal statutory tax rate applicable to pretax income (loss).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SAB Topic 6.I.Fact.4)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=116825942&loc=d3e330036-122817

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 12
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84230637&loc=d3e32687-109319

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