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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Alumina (AWC) has been one of the best performers on the local Australian market over the past couple of months, rising even as most of the materials stocks have been underperforming. The primary driver of the gains has been centred on aluminium fundamentals, with demand ramping up on aircraft...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today it has received $6.3 million as the second installment related to its 2012 Québec Investment Tax Credits. The funds were due to the Company in relation to equipment purchased for manufacturing and processing in the Gaspé region during the 2012 financial year. As...
Highlights • AMMG’s process uses well-established hydrochloric acid leach (HCL) method • Main advantage is the simple recovery of acid, reducing operating costs • HCL process ideal for Meckering aluminous clay deposit • Process utilises conventional, off-the-shelf plant and equipment • Process...
China imported 350,400 mt of alumina in August, up 142.74% YoY, but down 24.35% MoM, customs data showed. YTD imports through August surged 76.62% YoY to 3.58 million mt. New Alumina capacity growth in China has not kept pace with expanding aluminum capacity, which is the major reason behind the...
Jamaica's energy ministry has accepted a plan by Russian aluminum producer Rusal to develop a 140MW ethane-fired power plant to supply its mothballed bauxite refinery in Jamaica. The project will be commissioned by the end of 2017, according to the head of the ministry's power development unit...
Last week the Chalco alumina refinery located in Henan had closed down due to a broken waste-pool. The refinery had a capacity of 1.6 million tonnes per annum and its closure had a definite effect on the already climbing alumina prices. On Tuesday, Shanghai Metal Market heard reports that 60,000...
Tightening alumina supply is expected to give more rising momentum to China's alumina prices, Shanghai Metals Market foresees. The supply shortfall is due mainly to production suspensions or cuts, SMM learns. Chalco (Henan) has closed down a total of 1.6 million-tpy due to leaks from its red mud...
The chief executive of state-owned Emirates Global Aluminium announced that they are planning to build an alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi and investing $3 billion for it. Kalban told reporters that the feasibility studies reveal that by the end of 2017, the refinery will become operational. He stated...
The Chairman of Vedanta Resources, Anil Agarwal recently announced that he is going to raise the production in his Lanjigarh alumina refinery, from its current capacity of one million tonne to two million tonne in a year and has plans to push that to six million tonne gradually. He also plans to...
The U.S. government determined on Thursday it would maintain the existing antidumping duty orders on refined brown aluminum oxide (RBAO) from China, despite Beijing 's repeated calls for Washington to drop protectionism. The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) concluded in a ruling that...
The largest refinery in Europe, the Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon Estuary announced a pre-tax profit of $15.59 last year recording their return to profits. Ireland’s largest manufacturing site managed this feat by cutting back their defined benefit pension scheme which brought in an exceptional...
Reuter reported that an alumina production facility in Henan, owned by the Aluminium Corp of China Ltd (Chalco), closed down earlier this week due to a break in the waste pool as reported by executives from two different aluminum smelters on Thursday. On Tuesday night, the walls of the pool that...
Alumina prices in China are on a high as smelters increase their alumina purchases from domestic and international markets with plans to restart soon and with traders stocking up on alumina on anticipation of further price hike in the future. The strong aluminium buying trend is likely to push up...
Employees of Sherwin Alumina are negotiating with the company to avert a possible strike or lockout. The 600 hourly and salary workers at the Gregory plant have been working with the company through their union since July 8 to come up with a new contract before a Sept. 30 deadline. According to the...
Highlights : • Launch of Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) targeting 3000 tpa HPA operation • Aiming become a dominant global HPA producer • Pilot plant test work to be completed at laboratory • BFS to be completed towards end of Q3 2015 • Subject to funding, in position to place long-lead orders...
The International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences(ICENS), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM), has developed a new low-cost mix to repair potholes using a blend made from red mud, the waste material produced from bauxite processing. It is a...
This symposium will not only focus on latest developments of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Industry in Asian region but also promote value addition in each stage from Bauxite to Aluminium. There will be sessions on non-metallurgical bauxite, special alumina and value added aluminium products during...
Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer and her colleagues are on the path to developing a material that is thermally insulating but also extremely lightweight, or one that is simultaneously strong, lightweight, and nonbreakable—properties that are generally thought to be mutually exclusive. In a...
