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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The spot alumina prices in China have dropped across all major markets. The average spot alumina price stands at RMB 2467 per tonne on Friday, 06 December 2019, after remaining flat at RMB 2478 per tonne on December 5. This records a drop of RMB 11 per tonne or 0.44 per cent. Source: Shanghai...
The Australian listed resources company FYI Resources has reportedly received an industrial site in the Kwinana industrial area for its high purity alumina refining facility. The facility, as per the report, will refine kaolin feedstock arrived from FYI’s Cadoux Project. The company’s managing...
National Aluminium Company (Nalco), on Tuesday, December 3, once again appealed the Supreme Court to challenge the Odisha High Court’s March order that allowed Vedanta’s Jharsugda unit to participate in the tender for the sale of surplus 30,000 tonnes of metallurgical grade calcined alumina. In...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average spot price of alumina continues to decline marginally by RMB 2 per tonne to RMB 2,478 per tonne, as of December 4. In the north of China, the price has dropped too by RMB 5 per tonne to RMB 2,480 per tonne for a week at RMB 2,485 per tonne since...
The average spot alumina price in China is down by RMB 3 per tonne or 0.12 per cent on Tuesday, 03 December 2019. Alumina price stands at RMB 2480 per tonne, after remaining flat at RMB 2483 per tonne on November 29 and December 2. Alumina prices remain unchanged across all major markets in China....
Now high purity alumina (HPA) is being used in the manufacture of epoxy moulding compounds (EMC’s) that are used in the semi-conductor industry to improve heat dissipation, said Altech Chemicals Limited, leading Malaysia-based HPA producer. Altech also recently started an investigation of the EMC...
As presented by Huo Yunbo, senior analyst with Chinese consultancy Antaike during Aluminum Week in Qingdao, China’s alumina production will increase to 74.35 million tonne by 2020 with new operations coming online, leading to a surplus of 730,000 tonne putting pressure on price. She projected...
The metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Limited’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery was reportedly granted with Kalinga Safety Excellence Award at Bhubaneswar. Under the 10th edition of Odisha State Safety Conclave 2019, organised by the Institute of Quality & Environment Management Services (IQEMS),...
Alumina price in China declined for the fifth straight day on Monday. The average spot alumina price fell by RMB 5 per tonne or 0.20 per cent to stand at RMB 2484 per tonne on Monday, 25 November 2019. The spot alumina prices in China dropped across all markets. Source: Shanghai Metals Market The...
The average spot price of alumina in China has extended its decline again by RMB 14 per tonne, as on Friday, November 22, to stand at RMB 2,489 per tonne, marking the fourth consecutive fall throughout the week. With these declines, the alumina price today stands down by RMB 135 per tonne or 5.14...
The spot alumina prices in China have dropped today across all markets. The average spot alumina price stands at RMB 2503 per tonne on Thursday, 21 November 2019, from last closed RMB 2518 per tonne on 20 November. This records a drop of RMB 15 per tonne or 0.60 per cent. Source: Shanghai Metals...
Shanghai Metals Market found the average spot price of aluminium has dropped further today, on November 20, by RMB 20 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,518 per tonne. This marks the second consecutive fall in the spot price of alumina after remaining restrained for a week at RMB 2,572 per tonne. Prior to...
The average spot alumina price in China is down by RMB 34 per tonne or 1.32 per cent on Tuesday, 19 November 2019 to RMB 2538 per tonne, after remaining flat at RMB 2572 per tonne from November 12-18. Source: Shanghai Metals Market Alumina price in East China stands at RMB 2560 per tonne, down RMB...
According to a recent report, Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd has bought a 25 per cent stake in PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia for US$80.23 million. The Southeast Asia’s largest smelter has signed a share subscription agreement with PT Mahkota Karya Utama (PT MKU) and PT BAI, and a shareholders’...
Shanghai Metals Market survey found China’s alumina output in October stood at 5.86 million tonnes, with metallurgical-grade materials accounting for 5.61 million tonnes. This brings the total alumina production in the first ten months in China to 57.6 million tonnes, down 0.95 per cent from the...
The average spot alumina price declined by RMB 7 per tonne or 0.27 per cent on Monday, 11 November 2019 from Friday’s price of RMB 2579 per tonne. Alumina price in China stood at RMB 2572 per tonne today. Source: Shanghai Metals Market Alumina prices in East and Central markets fell by RMB 15 per...
Liang Xuan, a senior aluminium analyst at Shanghai Metals Market, estimates China’s alumina market to turn into a “tangible surplus” in the fourth quarter of 2019, as the newly started refineries ramp up their domestic production and import arbitrage window opens. As per Liang’s estimation, alumina...
Aussie alumina startup FYI Resources has produced high purity alumina (HPA) during pilot testing at its Cadoux plant. Trial production at the company's kaolin prospect yielded a 99.99 per cent average purity grade. After the results, the company intends to transform the pilot production at the...
