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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The Brazilian state of Pará has published a long-term ICMS tax framework for the aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA and related entities, developed between the parties. A new 15-year framework will replace the existing ICMS deferral on July 17. “Our ambition is to develop robust and viable...
The Prime Minister’s recent working visit to the Central Highlands bauxite complex confirmed the great potential of bauxite exploitation there and aluminum industry development. Analysts once looked at Tan Rai and Nhan Co alumina projects with dubious eyes. However, it is obvious that domestic...
Altech Chemicals (ASX:ATC) is currently in the process of permitting, securing off-take interest and project financing for its High Purity Alumina (HPA) project. This is targeted towards breaking ground for project construction in the first quarter of 2016. In June, the company completed three...
Almatis, a leading global supplier of premium alumina for the refractory, ceramic and polishing industries, has announced that its shareholders, including majority owner Dubai International Capital (DIC), have signed an agreement to sell the Group to Oyak, Turkey's largest private pension fund....
Australian company Alumina Ltd says it received $US71 million in income in the first half, while its joint venture partner Alcoa has announced a small quarterly earnings boost. Alumina is a 40 per cent partner in the global aluminium giant's Australian interests and its chief executive Peter Wasow...
Outotec to deliver two alumina calcination plants to Emirates Global Aluminium in the United Arab Emirates. Outotec has agreed with Emirates Global Aluminium ("EGA") on the design and delivery of two alumina calciners to the alumina refinery that EGA plans to construct in Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi....
PT Antam Tbk and PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) to cooperate in the construction of Smelter Grade Alumina (SGA) plant. The signing of the MoU has been conducted between the Director of ANTAM Tedy Badrujaman and Director of Inalum Winardi in...
Alan Cransberg, President of Alcoa Refining and Chairman and Managing Director of Alcoa of Australia, has been named by Engineers Australia for the eighth time in Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers. Mr Cransberg manages the company’s global alumina refining assets, based in Australia,...
Altech Chemicals Limited is pleased to announce that it has submitted a project application with the Western Australian Department of Environment Regulation (DER) as part of the permitting requirements for its proposed aluminous clay (kaolin) mine and associated beneficiation plant, at Meckering,...
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces its plans to fully switch production at its Achinsk alumina refinery (AAR) to support the consumption requirements of the Krasnoyarsk aluminium smelter (KrAZ). This decision will allow RUSAL to reduce its logistics costs and also to ensure...
Orbite Technologies Inc. today announced that the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) will evaluate Orbite's High Purity Alumina (HPA) for use in lithium-ion battery separators. Orbite's Technology Development Center (TDC) will work with National Research Council experts to develop composite...
Altech Chemicals is securing required equity and debt funding to advance its High Purity Alumina (HPA) project towards final design and development. This follows completion of the Bankable Feasibility Study that demonstrated that the project offers a real alternative to current Chinese and Japanese...
Orbite Technologies Inc. today announced that the Company has received notification from IP Australia, the Australian Government agency that administers intellectual property (IP) rights, of the granting and the delivery of patent 2012308068 pertaining to Processes for preparing alumina and various...
China imported 340,500 mt of alumina in May, up from 315,900 mt in April and up 8.96% YoY, customs data showed. YTD imports through May amounted to 1.59 million mt, down 33.55% from a year ago. Aluminum smelters preferred domestic alumina, whose prices fell due to high production during the first...
Altech Chemicals Limited announces the positive results of its Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for the development of a 4,000tpa high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant at Tanjung Langsat, Johor, Malaysia and an associated kaolin beneficiation plant at Meckering, Western Australia to provide...
A nanoceramic alumina coating process for aluminium printed circuit board (PCB) components was presented by Cambridge Nanotherm Ltd at the recent Electronic Materials and Processes for Space (EMPS) workshop which took place in April 2015 at the German Space Operations Centre near Munich, Germany....
The Jamalco bauxite mining and alumina refinery will spend roughly US$500 million to build its coal-fired plant as a means to offset its high energy costs, stated Government. The plans were long discussed but it's the first time the authorities have released estimates on the cost. "The mining and...
National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco), a navratna PSU under the Union mines ministry, has signed a joint venture (JV) cum shareholders’ agreement with Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd (GACL) for setting up a caustic soda plant and captive power plant (CPP) at Dahej (Gujarat). The project is...
