Chinese researchers show that a few extra hours of CO2 curing can roughly double the wet-dry service life of red mud–CFB ash–MgO backfill, while keeping leaching of hazardous elements low even after weeks of exposure to alkaline red mud liquor. Red mud remains one of the aluminium industry’s...
Canadian Energy Metals has demonstrated a process for producing smelter-grade alumina from Saskatchewan black shale and has started a prefeasibility study for its Thor Project. Canadian Energy Metals Corp. (CEM) has taken a step towards developing an alternative North American source of alumina...
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Altech Chemicals announced this week announced the probability of getting mezzanine debt worth US$ 90 million from Macquarie Group for its Malaysian High Purity Alumina Plant project. Altech said the positive response from Macquarie came on the back of the recent increased profile of planned...
The higher procurement of locally supplied bauxite has succumbed Vedanta to crop the cost of making alumina at its Lanjigarh refinery by 8% Y-o-Y to $269 per tonne in Q3 of this fiscal year. The production capacity of alumina at the Lanjigarh plant has risen by 16% Y-o-Y to 476,000 tonnes. The...
According to the United States Geological Survey, the country in the third quarter of 2019 ending September 30 had exported 10,000 tonnes of alumina to Mexico, whereas in the second quarter had supplied 12,200 tonnes. The USGS data found that this downfall of about 18 per cent in Q3 was a continued...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has increased from RMB 2565 per tonne on February 28 to RMB 2574 per tonne on March 2. This marks an increase of RMB 9 per tonne or 0.35 per cent on Friday. The prices of alumina in East, Central, and North China markets have...
As the week comes to an end, let’s look back at the status of Chinese aluminium and input costs recorded throughout the week. The average alumina spot price during February 24-28 recorded interrupted growth of RMB 49 per tonne ranging between RMB 2,516 per tonne and RMB 2,565 per tonne, showed...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has risen from RMB 2543 per tonne on February 27 to RMB 2565 per tonne on February 28. This marks an increase of RMB 22 per tonne or 0.87 per cent on Friday. The prices of alumina in East, Central, and North China markets...
The average alumina spot price continues to expand in China amidst the limited production at refineries and weak supplies in the market. Today, on February 27, the alumina price has grown by RMB 18 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,543 per tonne, according to Shanghai Metals Market. With the continued...
The average alumina spot price has extended growth by RMB 3 per tonne to RMB 2,525 per tonne, according to Shanghai Metals Market. Limited supply of the ore in the market due to lower production at refineries is primarily responsible for the continued growth in the alumina spot price. In the east,...
The Minister of Mines, India, Pralhad Joshi on 25 th February’20 laid the foundation stone of Crusher and Conveyor System at NALCO’s Mining & Refinery (M&R) Complex in Damanjodi, Odisha. The new system will feed bauxite for the 5 th stream of Alumina refinery of the company. The estimated cost...
The average spot alumina price stands at RMB 2522 per tonne on Tuesday, 25 February 2020. That was up RMB 6 per tonne or 0.24 per cent from Monday. The spot alumina prices in China have increased in Central and North markets. The average prices of Alumina-Central and Alumina-North have risen by RMB...
Alumina Ltd. Australia, the investor in bauxite mining and alumina refining through Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals (AWAC), today made public a statutory net profit after tax of US$ 214.0 million for the full-year to 31 December 2019, whereas after excluding significant itineraries, the net profit...
The average spot alumina price in China has extended growth by RMB 6 per tonne or 0.24 per cent from Friday to stand at RMB 2516 per tonne on Monday, 24 February 2020. Alumina prices have increased across in East and Central markets in China. The prices of alumina in East and Central markets have...
The average alumina spot price in China has further rallied by RMB 7 per tonne to RMB 2,510 per tonne, on Friday, February 21, according to Shanghai Metals Market. This marks the fourth consecutive rise in the alumina spot price. With the continued growth, the price stands higher by RMB 56 per...
The average spot alumina price in China is up by RMB 10 per tonne or 0.40 per cent on Thursday, 20 February 2020. Alumina price stands at RMB 2503 per tonne, after rising by RMB 7per tonne on February 19. Alumina prices have increased across all major markets in China, except South. The prices of...
According to Shanghai Metals Market survey, alumina prices are likely to extend growth in the near term, as production cut in refineries is increasing, and so is the imbalance between demand and supply on the continued virus impact. The amount of capacity cut at Chinese alumina refineries due to...
The average alumina spot price in China has extended its rise by RMB 7 per tonne to RMB 2,493 per tonne, as of Wednesday, January 19, according to Shanghai Metals Market. The growth rate is 28 per cent, higher than the previous day. This month has been seeing a positive trend in the alumina spot...
The average spot alumina price increased by RMB 6 per tonne or 0.24 per cent on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, after remaining flat on February 14 and February 17. Alumina price in China stood at RMB 2486 per tonne, from RMB 2480 per tonne. The prices of alumina rose across East and Central China...
Mining giant Rio Tinto has reportedly started dismantling its inoperative Gove refinery in East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The refinery was mothballed in 2014, causing job loss to 1,000 workers. Smokestacks of the refinery have been already scaffolded and stripped down,...
