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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RUSAL has obtained a license to develop the Goryachegorsk nepheline mine in the Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. The mine will provide the main raw material for the Achinsk alumina refinery. According to the feasibility analysis, the mine has sufficient reserves to be in operation for next 60 years. The...
The average spot alumina price rose from RMB 3116 per tonne to RMB 3156 per tonne on Wednesday, 22 May 2019. Alumina price recorded RMB40 per tonne or 1.28 per cent growth from yesterday. The price also increased across all major markets in China. Alumina price in East and Central rose RMB 50 per...
Hydro announced that the company will invest R$5 million (USD 1.2 million/NOK 10.7 million) up to 2022 to study the reuse of bauxite residues, which takes place at Alunorte alumina refinery. The partnership between Alunorte and Senai Institute of Innovation in Mineral technologies (ISI-TM) could...
A Brazilian federal court has lifted remaining production embargo on Hydro Alunorte alumina refinery under the criminal lawsuit on Monday, May 20, allowing Alunorte to resume full production. Alunorte refinery currently operates at 50% capacity. The embargo on the new, state-of-art bauxite residue...
PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium, better known as Inalum, is reportedly building an alumina refinery in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, the completion of which will save the company’s raw materials costs reaching US$200 million, said Executive Advisor Oggy A. Kosasih on Saturday, May 18. In addition, the...
Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) again increased the floor price of non-metallurgical alumina, as further shutdowns in Shanxi province grew market concerns about lower supplies, as updated by Shanghai Metals Market. The company raised alumina floor price for the fifth time since April....
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, China’s production of alumina stood at 24.54 million tonnes in the first four months of 2019. China produced 6.28 million tonnes of alumina in April, showed the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Production in April increased by 4.2 per...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the spot price of alumina has recorded a further hike today, May 17, to RMB 3087 per tonne. Yesterday, the price was at RMB 2,990 per tonne, which means the price today has increased by RMB 97 per tonne. Over the month, the alumina spot price has risen from RMB...
A Brazilian federal court has lifted one of two production embargoes on Hydro Alunorte alumina refinery under the civil lawsuit on Wednesday, May 15, though full production will not restart until the production embargo under the criminal case is lifted. “Alunorte is still subject to a production...
The average spot alumina price stood at RMB2990 per tonne on Thursday, 16 May 2019, representing an increase of RMB39 per tonne or 1.32 per cent from yesterday. Alumina price also increased across major markets in China today. Alumina price in Central and North rose by RMB40 per tonne each to stand...
Alumina spot prices increased across China major markets on Wednesday, 15 May 2019. The average alumina spot price rose from RMB 2850 per tonne on May 14 to RMB 2951 per tonne on Wednesday, May 15. The price is expected to range within RMB 2951-2951per tonne today. As updated by Shanghai Metals...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) further raised the floor price of non-metallurgical alumina. This is the fourth time since April that Chinalco has increased the floor price of alumina. The further rise brings the price to RMB 3,050 per tonne, which...
Average spot alumina price continued their upward track and stood at RMB2850 per tonne on Tuesday, 14 May 2019, up RMB47 per tonne from RMB2803 per tonne on Monday, 13 May 2019. Alumina price in the East, Central and North rose RMB50 per tonne to stand at RMB2860 per tonne, RMB2850 per tonne and...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the spot price of alumina has recorded further expansion today, May 13, from RMB 2,784 per tonne to RMB 2,803 per tonne. This is the second consecutive growth in alumina spot price after remaining restrained from May 6 to May 9 at RMB 2,778 per tonne. Shanghai...
The US-based world’s eighth largest aluminium producer Alcoa is reportedly planning to increase the nameplate capacity of its biggest alumina refinery at Pinjarra by almost 20 per cent. Per the report, the company has written an application to the Environmental Protection Authority seeking for an...
China’s production of metallurgical-grade alumina in April failed to meet Shanghai Metals Market expectations despite expanding 0.1 per cent year on year to peg at 5.81 million tonnes, found SMM survey on Wednesday, May 8. Environmental upgrading, maintenance, and losses were some of the factors...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that it has raised the first steel at its high purity alumina (HPA) plant construction site in Johor, Malaysia. Stage 1 construction of the Company’s HPA plant started in February 2019. The construction work is being done by a South African company Metix, a...
The aluminium industry in South Africa is one of the driving forces of the country’s economy. Along with the economic impact and contribution to the fiscus, the industry generates significant foreign exchange revenues and provides an estimated 11,600 employees in the sector with decent jobs....
