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>Alumina prices in China major markets will stay firm over the short term though the upward momentum is showing signs of slackening after logging continuous growth for some time now, said analysts at the Shanghai Metals Market. <br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block;...
<p>The European Commission has approved French minerals company Imerys’s proposal to acquire alumina producer Alteo ARC and Alufin GmbH Tabularoxid. The takeover is subject to certain conditions.</p> <p>The Commission said on Friday that Imerys, as well as the businesses it was planning to...
<p>Orbite Technologies Inc. announced on October 26 that, further to its press release of October 13, 2016, production activities continue as planned at its high purity alumina ("HPA") plant.<br /><br /><strong>Highlights:</strong><br /><br />• Feedstock digestion, which commenced on September...
<p>CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that the first Alumina FOB Australia (Platts) Futures contracts were traded on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016. A total of 60 futures contracts, equivalent to 6,000 metric tons, were traded across the January through...
<p>CBIX largely flat (up 0.5% to US$45.7/dmt) with some higher Value-in-Use (ViU) priced cargos from Ghana and Australia offset by lower ViU-priced material from South America.<br /><br />Malaysia’s Minister for Natural Resources and Environment, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar was...
<p>BHP Billiton spin-off South32 announced sharp rise in alumina hydrate production at its Worsley Alumina operation in Western Australia in the first quarter of the 2016-2017 financial year against the previous quarter.<br /><br />The total output of aluminium hydrate in the quarter ended...
Norsk Hydro has reported its third quarter 2016 results. Though, Hydro's underlying EBIT declined to NOK 1,477 million in Q3 from NOK 1,618 million in Q2 2016, the quarter was brightened up by record-high alumina production of 6.5 million mt.\ Commenting on the positive alumina production,...
<p>Metro Mining Ltd has announced its intention to make an offer to buy out all of the shares of Gulf Alumina Limited including those which it does not already own. The Board of Directors of the mineral company said that it considers the offer is far better than oly Mines Ltd's highly conditional...
<p>Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation today announced Court approval for the sale of the Company's alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana and bauxite mining operation in St. Ann, Jamaica. Following a competitive auction, New Day Aluminum LLC, an affiliate of DADA Holdings LLC, was selected as...
<p>PT Shaanxi Youser Indonesia, a part of the Shaanxi Youser Group is planning to construct an alumina refinery in East Kotawaringin district, Central Kalimantan in collaboration with a Chinese investor. The Chinese firm is ready to build the refinery at a cost of Rp16 trillion.<br /><br />"We want...
<p>Orbite Technologies Inc. today announced that, further to its press release of October 3, 2016, production activities continue as planned at its high purity alumina ("HPA") plant.</p> <ul> <li>The first batch of feedstock digestion commenced on September 30 and was followed by subsequent...
<p>Alumina output in China surged in September boosted by production restarts. Analysts at Shanghai Metals Market expect the trend to continue in October as well. According to a survey conducted by SMM, China’s total alumina output increased 4.79 per cent year-over-year (down 0.66 per cent...
<p>Mining and metals company Alumina today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The Australian alumina refiner received US$91.8 million by way of distributions, dividends and capital returns during the period under review as its share from the joint venture AWAC that it has...
<p>Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the estimation of a maiden Ore Reserve based on the production of high purity alumina (HPA) using feedstock from its 100 per cent-owned Meckering Kaolin Deposit (M70/1334), Western Australia (Meckering). The Ore Reserve was derived from Mineral Resources...
<p>China’s alumina imports fell sharply both on a yearly and monthly basis in August.<br /><br />Customs data showed imports totalled 129,000 tonnes in August, down 41 per cent month-on-month and 68.3 per cent year-on-year. <br /><br /><br /><br />Australia remained the top supplier,...
<p>According to an Aluminium Insider report, Rusal's Aughinish Alumina in Ireland is back in profits as the alumina producer has succeeded in pulling off a significant reversal in its bottom line. The firm reported a US$14.4 million pretax profit after posting a US$12.1 million loss the previous...
<p>Global high purity alumina market is slated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.11 per cent by 2020, revealed data released by Hexa Reports in their recently published market report. According to the insightful document, growing adoption of LED lighting systems and displays...
<p>World leading sensor and measurement technology company Morgan Advanced Materials has developed a new type of alumina sensor designed specifically for high-pressure and high-temperature water and sub-metering. <br /><br />The sensor has been specifically designed to withstand extreme...
