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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<p>Russian aluminium major UC Rusal completed the sale of Alpart refinery in Jamaica to the Chinese group Jiuquan Iron & Steel (Group) Co. Ltd. (JISCO) on November 22. Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) was officially handed over to JISCO last Thursday November 24 and the production is set to...
<p>Indonesia raced past Australia to become China’s top alumina supplying country in the month of September, General Customs data of China showed. <br /><br />Alumina imports from Indonesia surged 191.1 per cent month-on-month to total at 81,800 tonnes, while the shipments from Australia...
<p>Orbite Technologies Inc. announced on November 24 that, further to its press release of November 11, 2016, production activities continue to progress positively at its high purity alumina ("HPA") plant.<br /><br />-- As reported on November 11, feedstock digestion continues to operate...
<p>Altech Chemicals provides an update on the outlook for global high purity alumina (HPA) demand from a report entitled “High Purity Alumina Market – Global Industry Analysis and Forecast, 2016 – 2024” by Persistence Market Research.</p> <p>Persistence has reported that...
<p>UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of a 100% stake in Alumina Partners of Jamaica (‘Alpart’) to the Chinese state industrial group, JIUQUAN IRON & STEEL Co. Ltd. for a USD 299 mln cash consideration.<br /><br />The...
<p>India's domestic aluminium producers have been long demanding for an import duty protection for aluminium to which the government has responded in the affirmative only very recently. Now, the likes of Vedanta Ltd., National aluminium Company (Nalco), and Hindalco have again come up with the...
<p>CBIX fell 1.7% (US$0.8/dmt) to US$46.7/dmt with low Value in Use (ViU) priced Malaysian ore weighing on the week’s average, despite cargos of higher ViU ore from Guinea and Brazil. Malaysian prices remain unmoved on US$27.5/dmt FOB for un-washed ore and US$39.5/dmt FOB for washed...
<p>NRG Energy's Gregory Power Partners LLC objected to the bankrupt company Sherwin Alumina's November 10 emergency motion at the bankruptcy court to expedite the hearing and objection deadlines on its bankruptcy reorganization and asset sale plan.<br /><br />Alumina producer Sherwin Alumina has...
<p>Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) announced yesterday that a team of materials science researchers is developing the first commercially viable process for recovering valuable metals from red mud, a hazardous byproduct of aluminium production that is currently stored in holding ponds...
<p style="text-align: left;">Emirates Global Aluminium’s Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi, adjacent to EGA’s Al Taweelah smelter and Khalifa Port is almost complete with 60 per cent of construction over for the Calciners section. The overall...
<p>Alumina prices have been rising globally over the last two months. In October, the prices rose rather steeply enticing integrated aluminium producers with alumina refining operations to gradually move to the alumina price index for pricing their products. Earlier, most standalone alumina...
<p>Hindalco Industries has announced the unaudited standalone results for the second quarter ended September 30, 2016. The company delivered robust operational performance in a challenging macroeconomic condition.<br /><br />During the second quarter, alumina production (including Utkal Alumina)...
<p>UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, today announced its results for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2016. Total alumina production volume (unaudited) for three months ended 30th September totalled at 1,865 thousand tonnes down from 1,870 thousand tonnes in the same period...
<p>Weiler Abrasives Group, a leading provider of abrasives, power brushes, and maintenance products for surface conditioning has announced a new product in its Tiger® bonded abrasives lineup. The new Tiger UltraCut thin cutting wheels deliver lightning fast cuts, long wheel life and consistent...
<p>The Parish of Manchester is located in west-central Jamaica, in the county of Middlesex which used to be a business hub and housed the major alumina plants that drove the economy. However, during recession time in 2008, the plants closed and the parish became prone to various crimes. <br /><br...
<p>According to a recently published report by Persistence Market Research (PMR), the global high purity alumina market was valued at US$ 1.2 billion in 2014 and is projected to expand at a CAGR of 6.9 per cent during the forecast period to reach US$ 3.6 billion by the end of 2021.<br /><br />High...
<p>The United Steelworkers (USW) union announces that it has reached an agreement with the Sherwin Alumina management regarding preseravtion of pension plan and gains severance pay and other benefits for the USW members after the comapny's alumina refinery in Gregory shuts down officially on...
<p>Australian mineral development company Moly Mines is expecting to close its Gulf Alumina deal by this year December, reported a source aware of the matter. The ASX listed company is known to be trying to get its proposed buyout of the bauxite miner approved in the company’s...
