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 brief from Hindalco Industries on Wednesday April 10, the company temporarily suspended the operations of its alumina facility in Muri, Jharkhand, after an incident, in which the red mud storage area connected to the plant had collapsed leading to injuries. "There was an incident in...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced the production start at Al Taweelah alumina refinery today, April 10. The refinery is expected to expand UAE’s upstream business in the aluminium value chain. Al Taweelah alumina refinery project, located in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi incurred a...
Sierra Mineral Holdings 1 Limited, subsidiary of Vimetco N.V., reportedly discussed its expansion plans with the country’s Ministries of Finance and Mines last week. The plans involve the construction of a value-adding alumina trihydrate plant within its concession, in support with the Pan-African...
Shanghai Metals Market survey found a drop of 7,000 tonnes in China’s daily average output of alumina for the month of March. Thus, from 201,000 tonnes, China daily average alumina output in March came in at 194,000 tonnes. Tight bauxite supplies, high costs, maintenance, and equipment upgrading...
As shown by the latest US Geological Survey latest release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Fourth Quarter 2018, imports of alumina by the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2018 dropped to 273,000 tonnes from 441,000 tonnes in third quarter of 2018. The volume was 38% less than those in the third quarter...
Average spot alumina price in China has seen another drop on Monday, 08 April 2019. The average price of alumina has dropped to RMB2646 per tonne, down RMB26 per tonne or 0.97 per cent from its previous price of RMB 2672 per tonne. Spot alumina price in the South China market has witnessed the...
Vedanta’s Lanjigarh refinery produced 1,501,000 tonnes of alumina in FY2019, up 24% year-on-year from 1,209,000 tonnes in FY2018 due to plant debottlenecking. Alumina production from Lanjigarh increased from 638,000 tonnes to 827,000 tonnes in H2 FY2019, 30% higher year-on-year. The production was...
The Federal Court in Belém, Brazil, has scheduled for April 12 a hearing regarding the embargo on the production at Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery, Norsk Hydro announced on Friday, 05 April 2019. Alumina refinery has been running at 50 per cent capacity since March 2018. In yesterday’s hearing ,...
The Russian aluminium giant Rusal has signed a memorandum of intent with Tiocomposite to start test production of sulphur polymer concrete using red mud in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Further details of the location of the project and its economic and organizational conditions are expected...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the average alumina price starts off the second quarter of the calendar year 2019 with a drop today by RMB 22 per tonne to come in at RMB 2,672 per tonne. On March 22, the average alumina price had recorded the last plunge from RMB 2,704 per tonne to RMB 2,694...
Norsk Hydro has agreed with Ministério Público to have third-party technical assistance to assess the situation at Alunorte alumina refinery, located in Brazil’s northern state of Pará. Alunorte has signed an agreement “to assess whether reports from SEMAS and the University of Campina Grande, both...
The Odisha High Court has reportedly granted permission to the mining giant Vedanta to participate in the tender floated by state-run navaratna company NALCO for sale of surplus alumina. This judgement from the Odisha High Court is expected to provide a major relief to Vedanta. The aluminium major...
According to the latest data from China Customs, China’s alumina exports in February came in at 3,443 tonnes, after declining 139,000 tonnes from January. This data represents that China’s alumina exports in January 2019 had pegged at 142,443 tonnes. {newsStudioGallery} China Customs data found...
Dada Holdings LLC, an investment and management company based in Florida and the new owner of Noranda Bauxite and Noranda Alumina has recently announced the appointment of Dan Byrne as its Director of Strategy and Investor Relations. Mr. Byrne will be based at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the company...
The Australian firm Pure Alumina Limited is planning to buy private Canadian high purity alumina (HPA) producer Polar Sapphire for $C25.7 million ($27.1 million). Polar Sapphire produces some of the lowest cost HPA at its Toronto pilot. Pure Alumina announced its plan to its investors in the...
Alumina spot prices declined across China major markets on Friday, 22 March 2019.The average alumina spot price dropped from RMB 2704 per tonne on March 20 to RMB 2694 per tonne on March 22. Average price of Alumina-East has fallen by RMB 20 per tonne to stand at RMB 2690 per tonne; Alumina-Central...
RUSAL, the leading global aluminium producers, completes preparations for construction of the pilot plant to produce fine precipitated aluminium hydroxide (FPAH) for the cable industry at its Achinsk Alumina Refinery. The plant will have a capacity of 5,000 tpa with an investment of over RUB 500...
Average spot alumina price stood at RMB2704 per tonne as of Wednesday, 20 March 2019. This records a drop of RMB9 per tonne or 0.33 per cent. The average price is expected to range within RMB2704 per tonne. The downward trend in alumina prices can be seen in the following graph. Alumina-East and...
