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 alumina output will continue growing in May due to release of restarted and new capacity, SMM predicts based our survey. Alumina price rally, which began in February, has allowed most alumina producers to enter profit territory in terms of cash costs. This triggered massive capacity...
A Chinese-invested alumina refinery was officially put into production on Saturday in Indonesia. The refinery invested by China Hongqiao Group Limited and Winning Investment (HK) Company Limited, is the first giant alumina project that Chinese companies have invested in overseas. The two Chinese...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that its kaolin mining lease (ML) application M70/1334 at Meckering, Western Australia has been granted by the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). The ML is estimated to contain ~11 million tonnes of kaolin mineral resources, representing over 250 years of...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced the closing of an equity financing in the amount of $5 million with Ressources Quebec inc., a subsidiary of Investissement Quebec, acting as agent of the Government of Quebec. As part of the financing, Ressources Quebec purchased 20,746,888 Class A shares of...
China Hongqiao Group’s large-scale alumina project in Indonesia succeeded in yielding output recently, reported industry sources. The company will sell alumina from the project, whose annual capacity is 1 million tonnes, to China or Middle East within the next 1-2 months. Expected output for the...
Red mud, a byproduct of alumina refining from bauxite (the principal ore of aluminium) could be the key to creating a new industry in Gladstone that would lead to thousands of new jobs. Extracting iron ore from the waste product of aluminium to make steel is the latest idea from the group behind...
High purity alumina (HPA) is a high-value product that is used as a base material in the fabrication of sapphire substrates. These substrates have applications in scratch-proof artificial sapphire glass, semiconductor wafers, and light emitting diodes (LEDs). Traffic lights, backlights in...
Alumina supply in China will gradually shift into a small surplus with release of new and restarted alumina capacity in May, SMM foresees. SMM estimates about 200,000 tonne supply deficit in domestic alumina market, excluding imported alumina. There is still room for alumina prices to rise in the...
Australian Labor Party candidate Zac Beers voiced a strong opposition against senator Matt Canavan's comments yesterday that a Labor government would send Gladstone's aluminium industry offshore by saying Labor's policy was about creating and nurturing industries not wrecking them. Liberal senator...
According to Senator Matt Canavan, Labor & Green government's 50 percent renewable energy target by 2030 would close the alumina refinery and smelter and send the industry off shore. The Liberal National Party senator said the only way Labor could achieve those targets would be to get the major...
Orbite Technologies Inc. has announced the appointment of Charles Taschereau as Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the company, effective June 6, 2016. Mr. Taschereau joins Orbite from Congo Equipment S.A.R.L., a Caterpillar equipment dealer with 1,200 employees and over $350...
Shandong Weiqiao Aluminum & Electricity Co.’s large-scale alumina project in Indonesia has recently been approved by Shandong Development & Reform Commission. It is learnt from industry sources that the project, located in West Kalimantan and with total investment at $ 1 billion, will have an...
Metro Mining Ltd has now extended the close of the Gulf Alumina merger offer to 26 May 2016. The offer was 3.3 shares in Metro for every one share in Gulf. On 8 March 2016, the Offer was declared to be free of all conditions. In its Second Supplementary Bidder’s Statement, dated 6 April 2016, Metro...
Public sector aluminium firm National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has achieved the rare distinction of becoming the world's cheapest alumina producer. "Nalco is now the cheapest alumina producer in the world. We have cut alumina making cost by $30-40 per tonne", said Nalco's chairman and managing...
UC RUSAL , a leading global aluminium producer, has commenced the modernization of the Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery. The goal of the modernization programme is to increase the production of corundum, which is used in the manufacturing of abrasive and fire-resistant products. The project investment...
While the latest round of alumina price rise in China is nowhere near end, future upside room will be curbed by growing supply from production recovery, SMM predicts. Alumina capacity restarts are still on the rise, while aluminium capacity restarts cannot keep up pace. This means alumina supply...
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the execution of an agreement with Dana Shipping and Trading S.A. for the sale of exploration licence E70/3923 at Meckering, Western Australia for $2.0 million. The exploration licence is surplus to Altech’s feedstock requirements for its proposed Malaysian...
Alcoa's Australian partner Alumina Ltd says demand for aluminium is expected to remain strong and the company is well positioned as it looks to secure higher prices. Chief executive Peter Wasow said strong growth in demand for aluminium was expected to continue, and Alumina's Alcoa World Alumina...
