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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Average spot alumina price continued their downward trend and stood at RMB 2777 per tonne today, Tuesday, February 19. This marked a drop of 0.57 per cent or RMB16 per tonne from RMB2793 per tonne on February 13. The spot price is expected to range within RMB2777 per tonne. Alumina-East and...
Australia-based metals and mining company South32 has reportedly maintained its production guidance of alumina and aluminium in the fiscal years 2018-19 (July-June) and 2019-20. The company projects volumes in the coming fiscal tipped to be marginally higher. For 2019-20, South32 flagged total...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China produced 6.13 million tonnes of alumina (metallurgical grade) in January, an increase of 7.4% from a year ago. The average daily output stood at 198,000 tonnes, down 1,000 tonnes from 199,000 tonnes in December 2018. Gas installation issues at Chiping...
FYI Resources declared that it will get help from a pilot processing plant for getting offtake partners and finances to build high purity alumina (HPA) plant. FYI will build a smaller and cheaper version of pilot plant as part of advance studies into its Cadoux project in Western Australia. The...
After remaining restrained since the end of January, the alumina spot price today, on February 13, has recorded a plunge by RMB 15 per tonne to RMB 2,793 per tonne, found Shanghai Metals Market. From January 29 to February 12, the price of alumina stood at RMB 2,808 per tonnes with no intermittent...
Rusal, a leading global aluminium producer, announced operating results for the fourth quarter of 2018 and for the 12 months ended 31 December 2018. In the fourth quarter of 2018, total alumina production decreased by 2.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Alumina production stood at 1,958 thousand...
With seven refineries operating, Australia is the world’s second largest producer and exporter of alumina. It mostly produces smelter grade alumina for both the domestic and export markets and accounts for 22 per cent of the global production. Rio Tinto, Alcoa, South32 are some of the few...
Hydro today announced results for the fourth quarter of 2018. Underlying earnings before financial items and tax decreased to NOK 534 million in Q4, down from NOK 3,555 million in the same quarter last year. The results mainly reflect the effects of the production curtailment at Alunorte alumina...
According to a recent report, New Day Aluminium Holdings LLC, the parent company of Noranda Bauxite & Alumina, has rebranded its specialty products business as NICHE, a ready acronym for Noranda Industrial Chemicals. NICHE will include Noranda’s Gramercy-based chemical grade alumina (CGA) business...
Xinfa Group, one of China’s top aluminium producers, has reduced production at its alumina plant in southern China’s Guangxi region due to tight bauxite SMM-BAUX-GUAXI supply. The news came after a company official and a consultancy reported this to Reuters. The Group has lowered the production by...
Vedanta Limited announced its unaudited consolidated results for the Third quarter ended 31 December 2018. The company reported record quarterly alumina production of 404,000 tonnes in Q3 FY 2019, up 16% q-o-q. Mr. Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, Chief Executive Officer, Vedanta, said "We are pleased...
Being one of the world’s top aluminiumproducing countries, the United Arab Emirates’ import of alumina is expected to rise in 2019 after a year-on-year drop till last year. According to our third-party data, the UAE in 2016 had imported 1.67 million tonnes and from then on the volume dropped...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has reportedly entered the final stages of commissioning for its Al Taweelah refinery. The first alumina production at the plant is expected to be in the first half of this year. Abdulla Kalban, managing director and chief executive of EGA said in a statement on...
The US Treasury Department announced on Sunday, January 27, that it removed sanctions on Rusal, the Russian energy giant that owns Aughinish Alumina in Limerick, in a move welcomed by the Irish Government. In December, the US Treasury had announced its intention to remove the sanctions against...
According to a recent report, Altech Chemicals has secured the development order for construction of its high purity alumina plant in Johor, Malaysia. Site establishment works such as hoarding of the entire site, establishment of the site office, and construction of access ways are now thus...
According to a report, FLSmidth has signed a contract with Hindalco (UAI) to supply machinery and equipment for the extension of Utkal Alumina International’s (UAI) refinery in Odisha, India. UAI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hindalco Industries and flagship metal company of the Aditya Birla...
Vietnam, the emerging alumina producing hub on the shores of the South China Sea, has recorded an increase in its offshore alumina sales over the last three years. In fact, as suggested by the available international trade data, the alumina export by Vietnam has become more than double since 2015....
China exported 177,430 tonnes of alumina in December, down 37.9 per cent month-on-month. The country’s export of alumina was at 285,696 tonnes in November. The volume was up more than 3,700 per cent from December 2017. China’s total exports of alumina in 2018 stood at 1.46 million tonnes, according...
