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 has provided an update on the development of its high purity alumina (HPA) project in Malaysia. The company’s Managing Director Iggy Tan updated Proactive Investors that Altech’s HPA plant can lower production costs by utilising disruptive technology. Altech is aiming to...
The phased construction of the Jamaica-Gansu Industrial Park, the island's first Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is expected to start next January, Government minister Mike Henry said this to the Jamaican House of Representatives last Wednesday. Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) that operates the...
According to a report from the Dak Nong Aluminum Company of Vietnam, its Nhan Co Alumina plant in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong earned more than 3.2 trillion VND (US$141 million) in revenue in the first half of 2018. The company belongs to the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral...
Spain bought US$350 billion worth of goods from around the globe in 2017. The country’s alumina imports also increased to 44875 tonnes in 2017, up from 33407 tonnes in 2016. Spain imports substantial amount of alumina from France to meet the country’s domestic demand. According to recent estimates,...
After rallying at RMB 2786 per tonne for two days in a row on June 25 and 26, alumina spot price plunged to RMB 2745 per tonne in China today, on June 27, 2018, according to Shanghai Metals Market. The average price is expected to hover at RMB 2745 per tonne. In the east, the alumina price dropped...
Gansu Industrial Park and Special Economic Zone in Nain, St. Elizabeth, where China-based Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) operates the Alpart alumina refinery is going to get a facelift, as the company itself will invest over US$3 billion for the development. Pivotal to Jamaica’s Logistics...
Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal-operated Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea has restarted its operations on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. The news came to focus when the West African country’s mines minister reported to Reuters yesterday, on June 21, 2018. According to the update in May 2017, the...
Anrak Aluminium Limited (AAL), a joint venture of Penna Group and Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority, is reportedly taking a serious effort to recommence operations at its alumina refinery in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The company is planning to arrive at a one-time settlement with the...
Jamaican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith believes that Jamaica’s alumina exports are likely to be affected by the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and other countries. On Tuesday, June 19, she briefed to a press at the foreign ministry in New...
The U.S. imported 463,000 tonnes of alumina in the first quarter of 2018, 31 per cent more than the total of 355,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2017, and 50 per cent more than the total of 308,000 tonnes in the first quarter of 2017, according to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina...
Alumina prices continued to decline across China, facing pressure from higher operating capacity, potential surge in domestic supply, and falling prices of primary aluminium, according to Shanghai Metals Market. On Friday, June 15, 2018, the price of alumina averaged RMB 2812 per tonne, down RMB 92...
Altech Chemicals announced yesterday, June 14, 2018, that it has signed a US$60 million stream finance term sheet with a US-based global alternative investment group for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) project. Global HPA demand in 2016 was approximately 25,315 tonnes per annum and is likely...
In an interview to Economic Times, TK Chand, CMD, Nalco, says he expects the shortage in aluminium market to continue and the alumina and aluminium prices to remain bullish. According to him, in Q1 FY19, the company’s profit and EBITDA trend will continue to remain higher due to higher average...
According to Reuters report, rejection of Norsk Hydro’s appeal to overturn the partial suspension of bauxite refining operations at Alunorte refinery by a court in the Brazilian state of Para emerges as a blow to the world’s largest alumina refinery. In April, the company had sued state prosecutors...
After a decline in two consecutive days last week, alumina spot price showed restraint today, June 11, at RMB 2904 per tonne, according to Shanghai Metals Market. On June 7, the alumina spot price plunged from RMB 2998 per tonne to RMB 2954 per tonne and on June 8, it fell to RMB 2904 per tonne....
After hovering at RMB 2998 per tonne from 1 st of June to 6 th of June, 2018, the average alumina spot price dwindled two days in a row, according to Shanghai Metals Market. While on June 7, the average alumina spot price plunged from RMB 2998 per tonne to RMB 2954 per tonne; on June 8, it further...
Jamaican government is undergoing discussions with the United States Treasury Department to secure a waiver for Jamaica as the Administration moves to address any fallout from US sanctions against UC Rusal which has alumna/bauxite operations in Jamaica. “The talks are progressing favourably, but we...
The Malaysian Government finally gives a nod to Altech Chemicals for initiating a high purity alumina plant in Johor, with production capacity 4,500 tonnes per annum. Johor is located at the southern tip of mainland Malaysia. This news arrived following the last week’s news of Altech which said the...
