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 spot alumina prices are dropping steadily due to slow demand from smelters and falling domestic aluminium prices. This was also reflected in the fact that China’s domestic bauxite consumption dropped 2.51% month on month to 8.15 million tons in November. As updated by Shanghai Metals...
Mexico’s imports of goods increased 16.3 percent year-on-year to $38.97 billion in October. The country’s imports of commodities decreased at an annualized rate of -2.164%, from $326 billion in 2011 to $380 billion in 2016. The USA is the top supplier of alumina to the country. Mexico imported an...
Spot Alumina prices in China are dropping steadily through November continuing in December, following the downtrend in aluminium. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has dropped from RMB 3370 per tonne on December 5 to RMB 3348 per tonne on December 6. Domestic...
A consortium of the Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB) and Singapore’s Winning Shipping plans to build Guinea’s first alumina refinery in a $3 billion effort to develop the West African country’s bauxite industry, it said on Monday. Guinea has about a third of the world’s bauxite reserves and expects to...
India’s leading integrated aluminium producer National Aluminium Company Limited expects that it will sell around 6-7 lakh tonnes of alumina in the second half of the current fiscal ending March 3, 2018. Average alumina prices in the global market have corrected to US$512.13 from US$527 per tonne...
China alumina spot prices are extending their declines. After registering a 8.4 per cent drop since its November highest of RMB 3730 per tonne till December 1 (RMB 3416 per tonne), the average alumina spot price has again dropped- this time to RMB 3390 per tonne. This RMB 26 per tonne drop can be...
Mytilineos, a Greece-based industrial group, will soon become Europe’s biggest alumina producer after finalizing a $400 million alumina investment at a meeting on December 22. The company is expected to start construction of new alumina refinery in 2018. Mytilineos' Chief Executive Officer...
South Korea, the 7th largest export economy in the world, exported $483 billion worth of goods in 2016. The country’s exports decreased at an annualized rate of -6.156% during the last five year years. South Korea exported 262 tonnes of alumina in October to China, one of the major trade partners....
China alumina spot prices fell for the second day in a week after registering a drop this Monday. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average alumina spot price in China domestic market stood at RMB 3480 per tonne on November 28, down from RMB 3496 per tonne on November 27. The spot alumina...
China’s imports of alumina increased 21 per cent year-on year to 277,674 tonnes in October. For the ten months from January to October 2017, imports were up at 2.51 million tonnes, according to the latest import-export data published by China General Customs. In October, Australia and Vietnam were...
Alumina spot prices in China domestic market are extending their declines. The average alumina spot price dropped by RMB 19 per tonne to stand at RMB 3496 per tonne, as on November 27. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot prices of one of aluminium’s key raw materials registered drop...
Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) exported 35,000 tonnes of alumina from the Alpart Refinery for the first time on Thursday, November 23. The cargo is estimated to arrive in China by the end of the year. The company will spend around US$3 billion over a period of three years for upgrading the...
Noble Group, who acquired interest in Jamalco refinery from Alcoa in 2014, is considering the sale of Jamalco alumina refinery. According to news reported by Bloomberg, Global commodities company Noble Group sits down with shareholders this week for crisis talks to restructure about $3.5 billion in...
Both alumina and aluminium prices are on a downward trend after actual winter cuts have started in China. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China stands at RMB 3558/t on November 20, a further drop from RMB 3593/t on November 17. SMM expects the spot prices to stay...
The State-Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) on Thursday referred Vedanta’s plan to ramp up alumina production at Lanjigarh to high-level clearance authority (HLCA). Vedanta will increase its production from 1 million tonnes to 6 million tonnes if the HLCA clears the company’s...
Mike Henry, Minister of Transport and Mining, announced at a JIS Think Tank yesterday that the new owner of Alpart Refinery will export 35,000 tonnes of alumina for the first time on December 5. Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) will invest around US$3 billion over a period of three years for...
Lu Dongliang, Vice President of Chinalco, China’s biggest state-run aluminium producer told Reuters that the company will cut alumina capacity by 2 million tonnes during this winter months to meet capacity cut plans. Chinalco will not cut its aluminium production this winter. The company already...
The implantation date for actual winter capacity cut starts today. With the arrival of production limit date, alumina plants from different Chinese provinces have been implementing their reduction plan. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China stands at RMB 3701/t...
