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 prices are on a downward curve after staying flat since the last week of October, following downtrend in aluminium. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has dropped from RMB 3719/t on November 10 to RMB 3701/per tonne on November 13. SMM expects the...
Spot Alumina prices drops for the first time after staying flat since the last week of October, following downtrend in aluminium. As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has dropped from RMB 3730/t to RMB 3719 per tonne on November 10. SMM expects the spot prices...
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the 73rd largest importer in the world. The country’s imports of commodities increased at an annualized rate of 0.765%, from $10.9B in 2011 to $9B in 2016. Greece is the top supplier of alumina to the country. Other exporting countries to Bosnia and Herzegovina are France,...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has officially decided to never reopen their Gove refinery, and will instead embark on a lengthy, costly and environmentally fraught dismantling operation. The East Arnhem Land refinery has been in ‘care and maintenance mode’ since operations were mothballed and 1100 workers...
Spain imported US$309.6 billion worth of goods in 2016. The country’s imports decreased during the last five years. Export of alumina is estimated to increase considerably in 2017. {newsStudioGallery} According to recent estimates, in 2016, the top alumina exporting countries to Spain are France...
Hindalco Industries announced that the alumina production fell 2 per cent to 712 thousand tonnes in the quarter ended 30th September, 2017. Aditya, Mahan and Utkal alumina continued to operate at their designed capacities. Hindalco's Utkal Alumina refinery produced 380 thousand tonnes of alumina...
The holding company of Noranda has completed the buyout of the La Bâthie operation of ARC Fused Alumina from its owner Imerys, industry sources reported. The US based bauxite and alumina supplier bought the assets from Imerys, which purchased it from its erstwhile owner Alteo in 2016. The ARC Fused...
Thailand imports substantial amount of alumina from China to meet the country’s demand. China exported 258 tonnes of alumina during the first nine months of 2017, up 125 per cent year-on year. France and Japan are the top suppliers of alumina to the country. {newsStudioGallery} As shown by the...
Rio Tinto is attracting renewed interest in selling its Pacific Aluminium smelting unit by adding two alumina refineries in Australia to the portfolio, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Rio Tinto had tried to sell the division minus the refineries in 2011 and again in 2015...
According to the latest import-export data published by China General Customs, China’s imports of alumina totalled 275,385 tonnes in September 2017, up 93 per cent year-on year. The country imported 2.23 million tonnes of alumina between January and September, an increase of 2.96 per cent year-on...
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Second Quarter 2017 , imports of alumina by the U.S. in the second quarter of 2017 were 307,000 tonnes, essentially unchanged from the amount imported in the first quarter of 2017 and in the second quarter of 2016. Imports of...
TOR Minerals International, Inc. producer of high performance specialty minerals published its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2017. The company’s sales decreased 5 percent to $9.5 million in Q3 2017. The decrease in revenue was primarily due to a 23 percent decrease in...
Altech Chemicals Limited has received commitments to raise $17.2 million in a placement for its high purity alumina (HPA) project in Malaysia. The company has received a US$4.0 million (A$5.1 million) commitment from German engineering firm SMS group GmbH (SMS), and an A$3.0 million commitment from...
One of the world’s promising high purity alumina producer, Altech Chemicals is planning to raise US$20 million in a placement for its proposed capacity expansion plan of the high purity alumina plant from 4000tpa to 4500tpa. The move comes after the company was forced to more than pare down the...
In the midst of the announcement of production limit plan during winter heating season, alumina prices are holding strong. Average spot alumina price has registered a gain of RMB 22/t to stand at RMB 3730/t after a flat run for two days. Spot alumina prices have gained in all other individual...
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced finalisation of the design for the capacity upgrade of its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Malaysia. The company had got the German engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor SMS group GmbH (SMS) to do the project work for them....
According to a Shanghai Metals Market, Henan Province, Binzhou and Zibo city of Shandong Province have introduced the time of production limit and the number of limited production line for alumina up to October 16. The government has asked for annual 10.34 million tonnes production limit. SMM has...
According to a Shanghai Metals Market report, Shandong’s Liaocheng has issued winter output cut program for industrial enterprises. According to the program, Xinfa Group needs to close 564 electrolytic cells in winter heating season, or about 381,900 tonnes of capacity, which accounts for 30% of...
