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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Altech Chemicals Limited is pleased to announce that it has selected the Tanjung Langsat Industrial Park in Johor Bahru (JB), the capital city of Johor state, Malaysia, as the preferred location for its proposed high purity alumina (HPA) processing plant. The Company recently concluded an...
WA miners and farmers stand to be the biggest winners from the nation's biggest-ever trade deal that is set to be signed today between Australia and China. Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Chinese President Xi Jinping will formally sign a free trade agreement that will slash almost every single...
The Mining Minister of Jamaica, Phillip Paulwell has given Rusal UC an ultimatum to restart the mothballed Alpart bauxite/alumina plant in Nain, St Elizabeth by December 31 or else there would be consequences. Last Wednesday, Paulwell addressing the audience at the Young Entrepreneurs meet telling...
Alumina Limited was upgraded by analysts at Goldman Sachs to a “neutral” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday. A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on AWC. Analysts at Deutsche Bank reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Alumina Limited in a...
ASX-listed MetroCoal has made strides in its takeover of fellow-listed Cape Alumina, after major shareholder China Xinfa Group Corporation accepted MetroCoal’s offer for its 12.1% shareholding. MetroCoal’s total shareholding in Cape Alumina now exceeded 90%, and the company said on Monday that it...
Goldman Sachs Groups Inc. predicts that in order to spur supply of alumina, which is currently in deficit, the price of alumina needs to be increased. After the Indonesian ban, the bauxite reserves across the world are rapidly falling, which in turn has caused the Chinese alumina output growth to...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today the filing of its third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2014 financial results. Third Quarter Highlights are provided below: All dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars unless stated otherwise. • Mechanical installation of the decomposer and...
China imported 344,400 mt of alumina in September, down 23.58% YoY and 1.71% MoM, customs data showed. The MoM decline was because rising alumina prices depressed Chinese aluminum smelters’ appetite for imported alumina. The FOB price of Australian alumina rose 10% from USD 320/mt in late August to...
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
Alunorf, the world's largest aluminium rolling plant and a 50-percent Hydro joint venture, has won an Energy Award 2014 from the German Energy Academy. The Energy Awards 2014 were recently presented at a ceremony in Berlin, with more than 300 guests from politics, economy and science present. The...
The Rusal Aughinish refinery in Ireland receives regular shipments of bauxite from Guinea in West Africa which is the third most Ebola affected area after Liberia and Sierra Leone. The company officials however claim that none of their workers have contracted the disease yet due to their stringent...
Orbite Aluminae provides an update on the construction of its 3 tonnes per day high purity alumina (“HPA”) plant in Cap-Chat, Québec. Mechanical installation of the decomposer and calcinator has been completed per the Company’s earlier communicated timeline (see press release dated September 6,...
Inner Mongolia Mengxi High-Tech Group started trials on its 200,000-tpy alumina project in Inner Mongolia on October 25, local media reported yesterday. The project, with total investment at 2.5 billion yuan ($ 410 million), will source coal ash, a waste of byproduct of thermal power generation as...
China’s alumina output will rebound in October following maintenance-induced decline in September, Shanghai Metals Market foresees. Completion of facility overhaul and production incentive from rising alumina prices will be two major drivers of production recovery, SMM understands. For example,...
Australia Minerals and Mining Group Limited (ASX: AKA) (“AMMG” or “The Company”) is pleased to announce it has appointed the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) team for the development of its high purity alumina (HPA) project targeting 3,000tpa operation. The BFS team is composed of reputable and...
Cape Alumina Limited (Cape Alumina) is pleased to announce that it has increased the $250,000 unsecured debt financing (announced to the ASX on 27 August 2014) to $500,000 to progress the Bauxite Hills project. The loan is being provided by MetroCoal Limited (ASX:MTE) (MetroCoal) which, on 5 August...
Russia’s investment and industrial group Vi Holding may pour around US$1.5 billion into building mineral processing facilities in Indonesia, a Russian minister says. The projects would comprise a $1 billion alumina refinery and a $500 million ferronickel smelter, Russian Industry and Trade Minister...
