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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Australia Minerals and Mining Group Limited (AMMG) is pleased to announce it has a clear strategy and focus on becoming a high purity alumina (HPA) producer. In his first major undertaking since his appointment as Managing Director last month, Mr. Iggy Tan, a highly experienced mining executive and...
If the city-based Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Design and Development Centre (JNARDDC) has its way, 'red mud', a waste generated in huge quantity (one to two times of alumina produced) from the aluminium industry, can now act as a good source of building material. In fact, Modi government's...
Aditya Birla Chemicals India (ABCIL) shares became very popular with the investors on Tuesday when the company took the decision of buying the chlor-alkali division (CAD) of Jayshree Chemicals. The shares gained 7.5% to a record high of INR 313 on BSE. The new acquisition will expand the companies...
Sesa Sterlite has been granted the prospecting license by the Orissa government to work on two laterite deposit that will yield the necessary raw materials for the 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery set up in Lanjigarh by the Anil Agarwal owned company. Sesa Sterlite earlier had to import...
On September 3rd, Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced the latest news about the development of the new high purity alumina (‘HPA”) smelter at Cap-Chat in Quebec. Building on the initial announcement already dispatched on August 6th, 2014, they confirmed the completion of the first phase of the project...
On September 3rd, Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced the latest news about the development of the new high purity alumina (‘HPA”) smelter at Cap-Chat in Quebec. Building on the initial announcement already dispatched on August 6th, 2014, they confirmed the completion of the first phase of the project...
Inbound shipments of alumina to Guangdong in China totaled 488,000 tonnes during the first half of 2014, up 16.2% year-on-year, China Customs data showed. Average price of the imported material, however, was 2,259 yuan ($366) per tonne, down 2.8% from a year earlier. During the period, imports from...
Rio Tinto has announced a 21% hike in earnings to 5.1 billion while its Yarwun alumina site in Gladstone prepares for its annual shutdown. Yarwun and Qal, which had both been affected in 2013 by the ex-tropical cyclone named Oswald, are doing much better with the first half results showing a 9%...
China’s alumina imports rocketed 97.78% YoY to 463,200 mt in July. YTD imports through July also soared 71.55% YoY to 3.23 million mt, according to China Customs. Two factors were behind the impressive growth in import volumes. Chinese buyers increased imports as the FOB price of Australian alumina...
China’s Inner Mongolia will invest to produce alumina from coal ash, a waste of byproduct of thermal power generation, in its Jungar, Togtoh and Qingshuihe, local media reported. Jungar, a coal-rich region, is preliminarily estimated to produce 120 million tonnes of coal in high-Al content...
A rising trend is expected to be continuing for the rest of the year due to growing demand and supply tightness, Shanghai Metals Market foresees. The commissioning of new capacity in Q3 or Q4, delayed by falling prices early this year, and idled capacity resumption will grow demand for alumina, SMM...
Colombia's aluminum manufacturer Alumina expects to boost sales by 8% this year, on rising demand from the country's construction industry. Alumina, which handles 50% of Colombian aluminum sales, is cutting exports to the US, South America and Central America to focus 70% of its business on the...
The Tan Rai project in Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, which started alumina production on October 1 last year, went through an assessment of its financial performance conducted by Vinacomin and a report was released last week. These reports state that the net present value (NPV) of the...
The Third IBAAS International Symposium is to be held in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India during November 27-29, 2014. The title of IBAAS – 2014 symposium is “Technological Improvements & Market Developments in Aluminium Industry with Special Reference to Value Added Products of Bauxite,...
A leading player in the field of aluminium production, UC RUSAL has launched a pilot project at there aluminium smelter (UAZ) to extract primary scandium concentrate from red mud. Nearly 2.5 tonnes of primary scandium oxide concentrate can be produced in the new unit. In the course of 2014, a total...
Unions have called on mining giant BHP Billiton to guarantee entitlements and enterprise agreements for workers affected by its demerger. BHP plans to offload the majority of its aluminium, manganese, nickel and silver assets into a new company that is to be listed on the Australian share market by...
The Australian-based Alumina faced huge losses in the first half of the year till June as compared to last year. This was primarily due to the closure of the Point Henry Smelter located in the state of Victoria fuelled by the continuing weakness in alumina prices. The company incurred a net loss of...
Australia Minerals and Mining Group has revealed the appointment of Iggy Tan as managing director effective 25 August 2014. Tan will be responsible for managing and implementing the next stage of AKA's strategic business objectives, which includes the commercialisation of the high purity alumina...
