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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After 18 months since the dramatic restart of bauxite and alumina production at the JISCO (Jiquan Iron and Steel Company) Alpart faclity at Nain in St Elizabeth, operational concerns have cropped up in the refinery. Production in Alpart alumina refinery has stopped for the past seven days, and it...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, some 800,000 tonnes of alumina capacity got affected in Shanxi Huaxing, an alumina producer located in Shanxi province of China. This occurred as the company upgraded its generators to meet ultra-low emission standards from mid-December. The company told SMM...
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) insider Deborah O’Toole purchased 8,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 19th. The stock was bought at an average cost of A$2.25 ($1.60) per share, with a total value of A$18,000.00 ($12,765.96). ASX AWC opened at A$2.26 ($1.60) on...
Despite an increase in alumina production in November, China’s alumina export stood down by 37.9 per cent from October, showed Shanghai Metals Market. China exported a total amount of 285,700 tonnes of alumina in November compared to 460,000 tonnes and above in October. According to SMM, China’s...
Introduction: The year 2018 has seen some unprecedented developments in the global alumina and aluminium market scenario that has turned the market upside down making all previous forecasts redundant. The alumina market went through a topsy-turvy and volatile period with sharp rise and fall in...
Noranda Alumina updates through a press release that it continues to expand the chemical grade alumina (CGA) capabilities of its Gramercy refinery in Louisiana. It has commissioned a new hydrate dryer and dense phase pneumatic conveying system during the final phase of a CGA expansion project...
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Third Quarter 2018, imports of alumina by the U.S. in the third quarter of 2018 stood at 441,000 tonnes, 21% more than the 364,000 tonnes imported in the third quarter of 2017. Quarter on quarter, the volume was 25% more than...
According to a report, Vedanta Limited is aiming to curb its alumina imports to 500,000 tonnes a year by the financial year 2021. Per the record, the company imports more than two million tonnes of alumina to power its smelters at Jharsuguda and Korba because of having no sufficient captive bauxite...
Alumina or aluminium oxide (Al2O3), the key raw material for producing aluminium is a white powder extracted from bauxite through Bayer process. Due to the exponential growth of the aluminium industry in last two decades and the significance of alumina in the upstream value chain, aluminium...
Brazilian expert study shows that there was no overflow from Alunorte’s residue deposit areas DRS1 and DRS2 in February 2018. The study also concludes that Alunorte, from a water management perspective, can produce at its nominal capacity of 6.3 million tonnes of alumina a year. Hydro announced...
Ireland’s Finance Minister Paschal O’Donohue met US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in Washington to discuss the future of Aughinish Alumina, which was put into uncertainty after the U.S. sanctions on Rusal. “He was going with a very simple message that it (Aughinish) was of strategic importance...
Alcoa of Australia has reportedly acquired three new gas supply agreements. All three agreements, together, will supply close to 25 per cent of the company’s requirements in Western Australia from 2020. The agreements with BHP, Woodside, and Chevron, coupled with other gas supply contracts,...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced the completion of commissioning process of the calcination section of its alumina refinery at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. This involved a carefully-planned process of testing equipment and systems in a new plant before start-up. This makes the calcination...
Engaged in processing aluminium primarily in China, the company named Xinjiang Joinworld Co. Ltd., reportedly revealed its plan of building an alumina refinery in Guinea. The news came when Xinjiang Joinworld announced its project plan worth US$ 831 million after a filing to the Shenzhen Stock...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China’s total alumina production in November came in at 6.08 million tonnes, with average daily output at 203,000 tonnes. This marked a growth by 6.7 per cent from a year ago and 4.1 per cent from a month earlier. The entire production from January to November,...
The Australian explorer firm Pure Alumina Limited is planning to buy private Canadian high purity alumina (HPA) producer Polar Sapphire. Polar Sapphire makes some of the lowest cost HPA at its Toronto pilot plant available in the market at present. Pure Alumina, formerly called Hill End Gold told...
Greek-based industrial conglomerate Mytilineos chairman said on Thursday, November 29 that the company anticipated its sales to top 2.2 billion euros in 2019 from 1.5 billion euros this year. Special mention he made about Mytilineos’ growing alumina business and new projects in Libya and Ghana...
Resource galore, wider applications of technologies, world-class road infrastructure, business-friendly industrial policies are some of the key factors that drove the pace of world-class aluminium production in the United Arab Emirates. {newsStudioGallery} Emirates Global Aluminium, popularly known...
