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 imported 386,000 mt of alumina in November, down 33.6% MoM, customs data showed. Three factors led to the decline. First, imported alumina enjoyed no price advantage over domestic alumina. FOB price of Australian alumina was USD 203/mt in late December, which is equivalent to over RMB...
A big question mark hangs over the future of Anrak Aluminium's Rachapalli alumina refinery located in Makavarapalem Mandal, about 90-km from Vishkhakhapatnam. With the Andhra Pradesh Government announcing the cancellation of the bauxite supply agreement that it had with Anrak Aluminium Limited, the...
China’s alumina output will continue falling in December as tumbling prices and massive aluminum production cuts will force more producers to scale back production, SMM expects. Alumina prices are now near or even below cash costs at Chinese alumina producers, dampening production activity, SMM...
The rise in pollution levels has contaminated the environment with harmful elements. Important elements like air and water, which are essential for sustenance of life on Earth, have become harmful for consumption, leading to measures being taken to purify them. To help individuals in this task, Bee...
The price of Australian alumina continued to drift sideways Thursday, leaving Platts daily assessment unchanged at $200/mt FOB, despite a slight slippage of Yuan 15/mt ($2.30) in Chinese domestic prices in Shanxi province. The Australian assessment has fallen $5.50/mt in the last week, and $40/mt...
Orbite Technologies Inc. is the second most active on the TSX and down nearly 8% after it reported that a dispute, now resolved, with one of its contractors will push the end of construction of its HPA production facility and start of commercial production into Q1 2016. An Orbite contractor, in...
Indonesian minerals miner Aneka Tambang has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aluminum Corporation of China to develop a smelter-grade alumina refinery in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, the company said in a statement late on Wednesday. The move is aimed at integrating the production process....
Hudson Resources Inc. informed on November 23, 2015 that the Corporate Finance Department of the B.C. Securities Commission had selected Hudson for a technical disclosure review. As a result of that review, a number of disclosure deficiencies were identified. On May 25, 2015, Hudson filed a...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced today that a dispute, now resolved, with one of its contractors will push the end of construction of its HPA production facility and start of commercial production into Q1 2016. An Orbite contractor, in breach of the contract between the parties, withheld from...
Profits seem to have gone missing from Rio Tinto's Gladstone alumina refineries and it is the contractors who are being squeezed to turn that around. Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited Contractors and suppliers will be worse off about $10 million through a re-tendering process that will look to...
Altech Chemicals has taken a step closer to clinching the support of an export credit insurance scheme which could cover most of the total capital cost of the company’s high-purity alumina (HPA) project. Altech has received a letter of interest from the administrator of Germany’s export credit...
Aluminium major National Aluminium Corporation (Nalco) on Tuesday launched a joint venture with Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) to set up a caustic soda plant at an investment of Rs 1,800 crore, an official source said. The two firms will come together to set up a caustic soda plant...
China imported 581,500 mt of alumina in October, up 113.83% YoY, customs data showed. A sharp fall in import prices lured Chinese aluminum producers and traders to ramp up imports. FOB price of West Australian alumina fell 11% MoM to USD 243/mt at the end of October. Imported alumina is suitable...
Altech Chemicals Limited advises that exploration licence E70/4718 (Kerrigan project) has been granted. The licence covers an area of approximately 480km2, is on freehold agricultural land and contains Inferred Kaolin Mineral Resources of 85 million tonnes at 85.1% brightness (JORC 2004). The...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced that the company has received notification from IP Australia, the Australian Government agency that administers intellectual property (IP) rights, that its patent application No. 2013202318 titled "Processes for Treating Red Mud" has been found allowable....
Altech Chemicals Limited is pleased to advise that it has executed an exclusive mandate with German KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the promotional bank KfW, to provide advisory and structuring services in relation to the provision of senior debt project financing for the Company's...
Chinese aluminium smelters suffered fewer losses thanks to a slump in alumina prices, SMM found. The average loss at Chinese aluminium smelters surveyed by SMM shrank to less than 1,000 yuan ($156) per tonne in the week ending November 30. This is mainly contributed by an almost 100 yuan per tonne...
Cytec Industries Inc. will participate at ISCOBA in Dubai, UAE taking place November 29 - December 1. Cytec will present Performance Evaluations of CYFLOC® HF Series New Dextran Based Hydrate Flocculant for The Alumina Industry. Renata Vinhas, Cytec Application Engineer, will discuss how Cytec’s...
