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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Altech Chemicals Limited announces that a geotechnical ground drilling and survey program that commenced in mid-August 2018 at the site of its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia is well advanced and nearing completion. Highlights of the survey: Geotechnical ground survey...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has received the first shipment of caustic soda for its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery. Caustic soda and bauxite are the two most important raw materials in alumina refining. The refinery will require some 130,000 tonnes of caustic soda each year,...
Ireland’s Limerick-based Aughinish Alumina has begun lobbying against a State-imposed energy levy from which it received millions of euro up until 2016, labelling it unfair and a threat to investment. The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) now plans to cut the Public Service...
As per the data shown by Aluminium Association of Canada, Canada’s primary aluminium industry is the fourth largest in the world with an annual production of 3.2 million tonnes of primary aluminium, using the lowest carbon footprint. Alcoa, Aluminerie Alouette and Rio Tinto operate 10 plants in...
According to a report from Reuters, China is exporting large volume of alumina for the second time this year despite the domestic price rise that is putting pressure on smelters. Chinese alumina suppliers signed contracts to export over 140,000 tonnes of alumina in July at a higher price, according...
The Australia-based metals and mining company South32 is reportedly using a new robot, the BIKE platform, to execute safety checks at its Worsley alumina operation, the world’s largest alumina project comprised of a bauxite mine near the town of Boddington and an Alumina refinery near Worsley. The...
China’s largest state-owned aluminium producer The Aluminium Corporation of China Limited (Chinalco) has raised its floor price of non-metallurgical grade alumina to RMB 3500 per tonne on Monday, August 27, Shanghai Metals Market learned. This shows a growth of RMB 100 per tonne from the last floor...
After putting countless efforts on overcoming local political unrest at Niyamgiri mines for securing bauxite from there, mining baron Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Ltd. finally decides to put a stop at it and use alternate bauxite resources for expanding Lanjigarh alumina refinery, a top company official...
South32 and Alumina Ltd. have announced strong financial performances yesterday predominantly due to their alumina operations. After Alumina Limited reported doubling of profits in H1 2018, South32 posted a 16 per cent rise in its annual underlying earnings on Thursday, as healthy demand for...
Alumina spot price in China has been recording an incessant rise over more than a week. As per the data of Shanghai Metals Market, the price started displaying a surge from Thursday, August 16, from RMB 3059 per tonne to RMB 3108 per tonne, after showing a restraint in the previous day. Since then...
Alumina Limited, a bauxite and alumina company, today reported a net profit after tax of US$286.4 million for the half-year 2018, a 110% increase on the same period of 2017. Margins jumped on the back of higher global alumina prices during H1 2018. AWAC is Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals, a joint...
After China and Australia, Brazil ranks as the third largest alumina producer in the world and plays a dominating role as alumina supplier. Hydro’s Alunorte that located at Para, Brazil, is known to be the world’s largest alumina refinery that exports almost 86 per cent of its total production to...
Vedanta Resources Plc reported that it received approvals for expansion of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha, and inked contracts with Emirates Global Aluminium for bauxite. The present capacity of the refinery is 2 million tonnes per annum which are expected to expand by 2021, said CEO...
After the publication of Q1 2018 results, Nalco CMD TK Chand said alumina business is pushing up Nalco profitability. He said the PBT from alumina segment stood at INR 1125 crore. Nalco drives the alumina export segment in India every year being the top alumina producer and exporter. Nalco...
Alcoa workers in Western Australia alumina refineries have walked out indefinitely over an enterprise agreement dispute with the aluminium maker, the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) said on Wednesday. The strike comes after Alcoa applied to Australia’s workplace regulator to terminate its current...
Shanghai Metals Market has recently unveiled a roundup of the total production of base metals including alumina and aluminium in China for the month of July, after surveying major producers in the market to obtain first-hand information for calculation. China’s total output of alumina in July...
According to the report from China’s Environment Ministry in late March, the country had decided to strengthen its fight against persistent smog and pollution by further empowering and restructuring its environment ministry and drawing up a new three-year action plan which promises tougher targets...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announced its results for the three and six months ended 30 June 2018. Rusal alumina production for the quarter and the first half of the year was stable. Alumina production for Q2 2018 stood at 1,924 million tonnes, almost flat YoY. The six months...
