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 372,000 million tonnes (mt) of alumina in September, down 6.80% MoM, but up 9.79% YoY, customs data showed. Despite falling import prices, import volumes did not grow significantly, due to rising port stocks and weaker demand from aluminum smelters. China imported 3.14 million mt of...
In a revolutionary breakthrough, Japanese researchers have developed a new type of glass that is nearly unbreakable and is said to be as strong as steel. To make glass tougher, alumina- an oxide of aluminium and silicon dioxide- is used. However, in the past, when researchers tried building strong...
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that it has reached agreement with Dana Shipping and Trading S.A. to grant Dana the exclusive right to mine up to 10Mt of kaolin from the company's Meckering kaolin deposit. The Meckering Deposit covers approximately 184km2 in area and contains indicated and...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced that it has received patent titled "Methods for Separating Iron Ions from Aluminum Ions" from IP Australia. The company has also been notified of the following: • Patent application No. 14/005,885 titled "Processes for Recovering Rare Earth Elements from...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, has announced its operating results for the third quarter 2015. Alumina production for the quarter ended September 30 totaled 1,870 thousand tonnes (+2.8% QoQ). Alumina production for the first nine months of the current financial year stood at 5,496...
Malaysia's Vjikks Engg Power (M) Sdn. Bhd. has successfully ventured into the alumina ceramic wear resistant lining industry by applying its years' of experience in the power sector. Equipped with a team of personnel with strong process knowledge about every system in a conventional fossil fuel...
South32 has reported a 10 percent jump in first quarter alumina output after maintenance work was completed in Australia. Production in the three months to September 30 was 1.36 million metric tons, from 1.24 million tons a year earlier, when the assets were operated by BHP, the Perth-based company...
Altech Chemicals has appointed Tunku Dato’ Ya’acob bin Tunku Tan Sri Abdullah as a non-executive director of the company. Tunku Dato’ Ya’acob has nominated Mr Uwe Ahrens as his alternate.Tunku Dato’ Ya’acob is the executive chairman of the Melewar Khyra Group of Companies (Melewar), a Malaysian...
South32 has delivered modest lifts in first-quarter alumina and coal production, and says it’s progressing well with plans to strip further costs out of its business as the resources sector continues to grapple with downbeat operating conditions. The mining group (S32), which was spun off from BHP...
Altech Chemicals has completed a placement for A$1 million in proceeds with a cornerstone Asian investor as high-purity alumina (HPA) operations develop. The company has received the second tranche of an investment by diversified Malaysian industrial firm Melewar International investment Company...
It was a landmark Saturday afternoon rally. Hundreds of United Steelworks (USW) members walked down Saratoga Boulevarde to call for the end to Sherwin Alumina lock out. Sherwin Alumina shuttered down its Gregory facility in 2014 rendering 450 employees jobless. USW members had offered more than...
PT ANTAM Tbk and PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (INALUM) announced that they have agreed to set up a joint venture company to develop and operate Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR). Construction of the SGAR in its proposed location in West Kalimanta, is to start in 2016; operations at the plant...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced shipment of its additional 5N+ high purity alumina (HPA) samples to seven prospective customers. Six of the prospective customers to receive the new 5N+ samples had not previously received Orbite's HPA. The company had previously shipped 4N8 and 5N+ HPA samples to...
OTC Markets Group Inc., operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial markets, today announced Alumina Limited, a worldwide investor in bauxite mining and alumina refining through Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market in the U.S. Alumina begins...
Alcoa is the largest global bauxite and alumina producer, with a strong first quartile cost position in both businesses. Alcoa reports the earnings of its bauxite mining and alumina refining business under its Alumina segment. The segment supplies alumina to Alcoa’s Primary Metals segment as well...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, develops acid technology for alumina production of non-bauxite raw materials. The technology will allow the production of alumina using domestic kaolin clay as a substitution to imported bauxites. The new technology will significantly boost RUSAL...
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced that further to its September 9th press release, and in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture dated December 13, 2012 governing the 2012 8% convertible secured debentures, it has deposited in trust with Computershare Trust Company of Canada, acting as...
A technical and equipment infrastructure review of the alumina refinery, Rusal Alpart Jamaica, is being conducted as part of pre-preparatory work for the plant’s scheduled reopening in December 2016. Audit representatives from UC Rusal's Moscow office, and elsewhere in Europe and Australia are...
