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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Spot alumina price saw some unprecedented highs in 2018 first half and doubled to over $700 per tonne as the market showed panic reaction to U.S. sanctions on Oleg Deripaska and Rusal entities in April. The supply scenario was disrupted by two major happenings. First, the fifty per cent capacity...
After almost 88 years, Liaoning province in China was about to home an alumina refinery, but unfortunately, the project plan got cancelled by the city of Chaoyang after public consultation. The refinery was proposed to process bauxite ore into 10 million tonnes of alumina every year and supersede...
The announcement that the US may consider dropping severe sanctions against Rusal could be resulted in easing threat to up to 1,000 jobs at Limerick’s Aughinish Alumina. Aughinish Alumina, owned by Russian giant UC Rusal, had been under threat since April 2018, when the US Treasury Department had...
Altech Chemicals Limited announces that it has completed clearing the ~4Ha site for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia. Site clearance commenced earlier this month following the execution of the stage 1 construction agreement for the HPA plant with appointed German...
Almatis, a global leader in production and supply of premium alumina and alumina-based products, announced to set up a new Tabular Alumina plant in Falta, West Bengal, with the aim to expand its business across Asia. Almatis was previously a part of global aluminium major Alcoa but now owned by one...
Norsk Hydro CEO Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said on Tuesday, July 24, that despite talks between the company and Brazilian regulators about full production recommencement at Alunorte alumina refinery, no timeline has been set yet on the final ramp-up. "We do not know exactly what it will take for the...
According to China customs data, alumina export from China stood at 118,000 tonnes in June, up 24 per cent from May’s export of 89,999 tonnes. This marks the highest level since the year 2002. The exports during May and June, at 208,000 tonnes were in line with SMM’s expectation. Moreover, with the...
Hydro released it Q2 2018 results reporting an underlying EBIT of NOK 2713 million, down 7% from the same period in 2017 and 14% QoQ. 50% production at Alunorte, Paragominas and Albras and higher costs affected the total results considerably. Underlying EBIT for Bauxite & Alumina decreased...
Ireland is one of the leading export economies in the world houses Rusal-operated Aughinish alumina refinery. Located in a rural part of Ireland, Aughinish refinery is the sole producer of alumina in the country and one of the most efficient alumina facilities globally, with an annual production...
According to the international export-import statistics, the estimated alumina export from China in 2018 is 177,996 tonnes, while the expected revenue to be at US$ 324 million. In the first quarter of 2018, the total alumina export from China was 59,548 tonnes and the revenue earned was US$63...
In 2017, Aughinish Alumina filed a controversial proposal to blast and extract rock near the bauxite residue disposal area, or the red mud ponds, to make a pit for use in the plant operations. Limerick council gave green light for rock 'blasting' at Aughinish plant. However, the proposal was...
Altech Chemicals Ltd has signed the final agreement to construct stage I of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia with its EPC contractor SMS Group GmbH (SMS) of Germany. The scope of work is valued at around $10 million and includes bulk earthworks, foundation piling and the...
Australia based company Collerina Cobalt Limited has declared that it is going to raise a fund of around A$ 4 million through a one-for-ten rights issue, priced at 8c each, for advancing high purity alumina (HPA) first process at its Collerina project in New South Wales. The issue price of 8c a...
Altech Chemicals Limited is raising up to $20 million to start construction of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Malaysia. The company said it has received from institutional and professional investors for a share placement of A$17 million. Altech will offer a Share Purchase Plan (SPP),...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed an agreement with the American University of Sharjah to study the conversion of organic waste into biochar, a stable form of carbon that is used worldwide to improve the potential of soils to support plant life. EGA is interested in the potential of...
Chinese alumina producers Aluminium Corporation of China and Luoyang Heungkong Wanji Aluminium Co Ltd have announced major alumina production cuts in the provinces of Shanxi and Henan respectively. Shanxi province is China’s second biggest alumina producing province. Reuters reported that Luoyang...
According to the latest update by Shanghai Metals Market, alumina production in Lvliang of Shanxi province is likely to be affected as the area was highlighted in China’s three-year initiative to “make skies blue again”. This initiative was released by the State Council on June 3, 2018, with an aim...
Utkal Alumina International, a fully-owned subsidiary of Hindalco, declared on July 4, that it would most likely finish its 500-kilotonne expansion over the next 30 months. This project involves a capital outlay of INR 1300 crore. Hindalco managing director Satish Pai told, “Our Utkal plant remains...
