Segment and Related Information - Additional Information (Detail)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2021 Employee t	Dec. 31, 2021 Segment Product_Division
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Number of operating segments		3
Number of reportable segments		3
Number of product divisions \| Product_Division		4
Alcoa Corporation [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership interest in joint venture		25.10%
Warrick Rolling Mill [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Production of aluminum smelter and power plants (metric ton per year) \| t	269,000
Number of employees \| Employee	670
AWAC [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Ownership interest in joint venture		25.10%

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123359005&loc=d3e8672-108599

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