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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China’s exports of alumina last month were roughly equal to September’s bumper volumes, the president of Aluminum Corp of China Ltd , said on Wednesday. “I estimate that October was more or less the same as September,” Lu Dongliang told Reuters on the sidelines of a signing ceremony at the China...
Altech Chemicals Limited has finalised the site layout and building design for its proposed Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA) plant. The final layout is based on the recently completed site geotechnical survey and feedback from pre-construction consultation meetings between SMS group GmbH, local...
After showing restraint yesterday, alumina spot price has recorded a slight growth today, on November 7, to RMB 3179 per tonne, Shanghai Metals Market found. This marks a growth by RMB 9 per tonne. The average price is expected to remain the same as that of the spot price. The growth has touched...
According to the report by CARE, India ranks fourth in terms of production of alumina and produces about 5 per cent of the world alumina. The report shows there had been an 8.4 per cent year-over-year increase in alumina production from FY 2015-16 to FY 2016-17. Some of it is consumed internally...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced on November 4 that the bauxite waste management system is ready at its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi. This is another milestone in the preparation towards production launch of the Al Taweelah alumina...
Leading global aluminium producer Rusal announced results for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2018. Rusal produced 5.816 million tonnes of alumina in the first nine months of 2018, almost flat YoY. Alumina production stood at 2 million tonnes in Q3 2018, as compared to 1.96 million...
The High Level Clearance Authority (HLCA), headed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, on Saturday, November 3, reportedly gave a nod to investment proposals for setting up six mega manufacturing facilities worth INR 25,845 crore. Out of six investment proposals, three are from Vedanta Ltd. and the...
Altech Chemicals published Quarterly Report for September 2018. The company organized the official ground breaking ceremony for Altech’s held at Johor HPA site during this quarter. The Australian High Commissioner and German Ambassador to Malaysia unveiled official opening plaque. The ceremony was...
The directors of Limerick Alumina Refining Ltd (LARL) that operates the Aughinish Alumina refinery in Limerick, Ireland have stated that its status as a sanctioned entity constitutes a material uncertainty that may cast significant doubt on the refinery’s future. Limerick Alumina Refining Ltd...
According to a report by BusinessLine , billionaire Anil-Agarwal-owned Vedanta has imported some 12.69 lakh tonnes of alumina this year between April and August while on the other hand, over 3000 small and medium enterprises together imported 5.41 lakh tonnes of aluminium scrap as raw material for...
According to a report by MTI on Tuesday, October 30, a Hungarian consortium is working on ways to recycle alumina refinery residues, also known as red sludge, in a HUF 1.5 billion project supported by the European Union. The R&D project, which will run until 2021, is supported by more than HUF 1...
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) advised ITOCHU Corporation on its $250m sale of its 5% stake in a bauxite mining and alumina refinery in Western Australia. The Japanese general trading company sold its interest in the Worsley Alumina project near Boddington to Press Metal Bintulu, which is 80% owned...
The alumina market is going through the most topsy-turvy and volatile period with sharp rise and fall in prices and supply disruptions. The temporary closure of Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil and uncertainties surrounding U.S. sanction on Rusal pushed up alumina price sky high driving...
Brazilian federal environment agency IBAMA has reportedly lifted the embargo on Hydro’s new Alunorte bauxite residue deposit area DRS2, but embargo from the federal court system still remains in place. IBAMA has lifted the embargo after reviewing information requested by Alunorte and SEMAS, the...
Besides fish and tourism, aluminium is emerging as one of the significant industries in Iceland. According to the report, aluminium had a share of about 16 per cent to the country’s total export in the year 2017. There were three plans in operation with a total capacity of over 800,000 tonnes per...
According to the latest report released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on October 22, China’s alumina output in September increased by a healthy 8.2% year on year to 5.81 million tonnes. The volume also recorded a 3.9% growth month on month from August output of 5.59 million tonnes....
According to China Customs data, China's exports of alumina increased more than fivefold from August to 166,000 tonnes in September, the highest monthly volume in 2018. Net exports of alumina in September stood at 136,000 tonnes. The country's year-to-date exports of alumina exceeded imports for...
Indonesia’s alumina production is boosting with time. The sole smelter-grade alumina refinery in the country PT Well Harvest Winning (WHW) has reportedly hit the production of more than 2 million metric tonnes of smelter-grade alumina (SGA) since June 2016 or the month of SGA refinery’s maiden...
