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 in China further dropped to RMB 2836 per tonne on January 22, down RMB18 per tonne from RMB 2854 per tonne as on January 21.The spot price is expected to range within RMB 2836 per tonne today. Alumina-central and alumina –east declined by RMB 20 per tonne and RMB 30 per...
Rio Tinto’s alumina production for the fourth quarter of 2018 was three per cent lower than the fourth quarter of 2017. Compared to Q3 2018, alumina production registered a hike by 2 per cent. The company produced 2 million tonnes of alumina in Q4 2018. For the full year , alumina production stood...
Average spot alumina price in China dropped from RMB 2862 per tonne to RMB 2854 per tonne on January 18. The spot price is expected to range within RMB 2854 per tonne today. Alumina-central is down by RMB 20 per tonne to stand at RMB 2880 per tonne. The price is expected to range between RMB 2860...
Diversified miner South32 has reportedly achieved a solid production performance in the December quarter, with production guidance for the full year to June 2019 remaining unchanged for all operations except Illawara Metallurgical Coal. South32 CEO Graham Kerr said today, on January 17, “We...
The US Senate reportedly failed in its attempt on Wednesday evening, January 16, to block the agreement to lift sanctions against Rusal, the parent company of Aughinish Alumina. With this arrived an immense relief among nearly 400 Aughinish workers in Limerick. The news came when a junior minister...
A press release from Hydro confirms that the environmental agency in the state of Pará, SEMAS has lifted the ban on Alunorte Alumina refinery’s 50% operational capacity. SEMAS, has issued a technical note to Hydro which says that Hydro Alunorte can safely resume normal operations and the production...
A vote will be reportedly held today, on January 16, on a move to block the lifting of sanctions affecting Aughinish Alumina in Limerick. Per the report, 11 Republican senators went against their own party and joined hands with Democrats to allow the vote to proceed. In December, the US Treasury...
Average spot alumina price in China decreased by RMB 17 per tonne to RMB 2862 per tonne on January 16. The spot price is expected to range within RMB 2862 per tonne today. Alumina-north is down by RMB 40 per tonne to stand at RMB 2820 per tonne. The price is expected to range between RMB 2800 per...
Tellus Holdings Ltd announced that it has received approval from the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE) for its Sandy Ridge Facility in Western Australia. The company said the Sandy Ridge Facility or the “Action” is a proposed open-cut kaolin clay mine and arid...
According to a recent report, the construction of JAMALCO’s US$189 million gas-fired cogeneration power plant by New Fortress Energy is expected to complete by February 2020. The news came after the bauxite/alumina company’s managing director Austin Mooney reported while speaking during a tour of...
According to a report by Shanghai Metals Market, Chinese authorities had raised concerns about the possibility of excessive production capacity across the alumina industry in China at the end of last year. They had even cited the projects which were in the pipeline. The news came based on the...
Norsk Hydro aims to bring Alunorte alumina refinery back to full capacity within weeks or months, although the process still remains uncertain, Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg told Reuters. The alumina refinery has been operating at half capacity since March after state environmental...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China’s total alumina production in December came in at 6.18 million tonnes, a growth by 11.22% from a year ago. The average daily output stood at 199,000 tonnes, from 203,000 tonnes in November. In 2018, China's alumina production totalled 70.48 million tonnes,...
Since the beginning of the New Year 2019, the alumina spot price has been found to record either a plunge or restraint; and today is not an exception. The alumina spot price in China has again registered a drop to RMB 2,893 per tonne after being at RMB 2,928 per tonne from January 4 to January 8,...
XJet, a provider of metal and ceramic additive manufacturing technologies and solutions, has unveiled a new ceramic material, alumina, for its Carmel AM printer at the Formnext show. The company said alumina was chosen for development because of its wide use as a technical ceramic and market demand...
Galuminium in China's south-western province of Guizhou will expand its annual alumina capacity to 800,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2019. Shanghai Metals Market reported that Galuminium planned to commission its second alumina production line for phase-one project in Q4. The company’s...
Vedanta Ltd has proposed to invest $250-300 million in the next fiscal for ramping up the alumina refinery capacity at Lanjigarh. The company has planned to expand the capacity to six million tonnes per annum from its current 1 million tonnes. Metals and mining giant Vedanta expects to recover the...
According to a report, twenty-seven of the fifty-two young Jamaican engineers who were selected for further study and training in China last March by JISCO Alpart successfully completed the segment of the course and returned to the island on December 24. The batch of 27 was trained in the Bayer...
