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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According to a report from Platts, the ongoing 50% capacity cut at Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil has affected US caustic soda exports in the first two months of 2019. According to the latest data from the US International Trade Commission US shipments of caustic soda was down 45% YoY...
Alumina spot price has recorded a rise today after the Labour Day holiday. The price increased by RMB 18 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,778 per tonne on Monday, 06 May 2019. The alumina spot price is expected to range within RMB 2,778 per tonne. In the east and central market, the alumina price has...
NRG Energy Inc. is reportedly planning to resume operations at its mothballed natural gas plant on the old Sherwin Alumina property in Gregory from June 2019. David Knox, a spokesman for NRG Energy Inc. said the natural gas plant was built in 2002 to provide energy to its partner Sherwin Alumina....
The global trade data suggest that the Netherlands will import 21% more alumina in 2019 than last year. The country’s import of alumina came in at 1193453 tonnes last year. Jamaica was the top supplier of alumina to the country in 2018, according to recent statistics. Jamaica’s export to the...
RUSAL has announced its operating results for the first quarter 2019. Total alumina production stood at 1,932 thousand tonnes in 1Q19, up 2.1 per cent from 1,892 thousand tonnes in 1Q18. On-quarter-on-quarter comparison, production declined 1.3 per cent from 1,958 thousand tonnes in 4Q18. Russian...
According to the latest media report, Supreme Court admits NALCO’s petition for hearing on alumina sales tender to domestic customers. It was earlier reported that Nalco urged the Supreme Court to challenge Odisha High Court for allowing Vedanta’s Jharsugda unit's participation in the tender...
Jamaica-based bauxite/alumina producer JISCO Alpart’s meeting with community leaders, political and stakeholder representatives is scheduled today, April 29, at 11:00 am at the JISCO Alpart Sports Club in Nain. The agenda of the meeting is to discuss ongoing problems relating to water distribution...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the alumina spot price has recorded further rise today, April 29, by RMB 26 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,750 per tonne. The alumina spot price started rising since April 22 and today marks the sixth consecutive growth. So, over the week, the alumina spot price...
A navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has reportedly urged the Supreme Court to challenge Odisha High Court for allowing Vedanta’s Jharsugda unit's participation in the tender floated by Nalco for the sale of surplus alumina. Nalco pointed out that according to policy the...
Average spot alumina price moves further up on Thursday, 25 April 2019 throughout all the major markets in China. Alumina price in China today stands at RMB2715 per tonne, up RMB10 per tonne from yesterday. The average price is expected to range within RMB2715 per tonne. Alumina price in East and...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average alumina spot price has recorded a growth today, April 24, by RMB 10 per tonne to come in at RMB 2,705 per tonne. In the major markets including east, central, north, and south, the alumina price has climbed by RMB 10 per tonne and hovering at RMB...
Average spot alumina price in China stood at RMB2695 per tonne on Tuesday, 23 April 2019, which indicates a 0.75 per cent increase compared with RMB2675 per tonne. The average price is expected to range within RMB2695 per tonne. Spot alumina price in Central China and North China increased RMB20...
On asking about the current status of Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery’s production capacity, CEO Rahul Sharma said, “Vedanta expects to raise Lanjigarh alumina refinery's capacity to 2 million tonnes this year.” He also said, “Growth is likely to double in next 5 years," while continued saying...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the alumina spot price has recorded a rise over the weekend ended on April 22, by RMB 10 per tonne to come in at RMB 2,675 per tonne. After a continued fall since the beginning of the year, the alumina spot price first rose this year on April 18 from RMB 2,646...
Mining company South32 reported total alumina production of 3.74 million tonnes in the nine months ended March 2019, compared to 3.77 million tonnes in the nine months ended March 2018. In Q3 FY19, alumina production stood at 1.2 million tonnes. This was down 13 per cent quarter-on-quarter....
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average alumina price has recorded a rise today, on April 18, after continually falling for over three months. From the beginning of 2019 until yesterday, the alumina price saw an incessant fall, ranging between RMB 2,934 per tonne and RMB 2,646 per tonne....
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that the company hosted inaugural investor and stakeholder visit to the site of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia. Altech Managing Director Iggy Tan provided an update that covered the stage 1 construction plan; the status of project...
Norwegian metals maker Norsk Hydro recorded a rise of its shares on Monday, April 15, after winning further support to resume full production at its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. After operating at half capacity for over a year, the Alunorte refinery on April 12 saw a hope to resume full...
