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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UC RUSAL is considering the use of ethane to fire its 1.7- million tonne alumina refinery in Jamaica's southwestern parish of St Elizabeth. The plant has been closed for five years, largely because of low market price for its product and high production costs, which is primarily because of the...
Global aluminium producer RUSAL announced today that it has won a case with regards to share purchase of the Friguia bauxite and alumina complex against the Republic of Guinea. Rusal bought over the Friguia production complex, which includes a bauxite mine, an alumina refinery and a railway network...
A $1.2 billion power plant in Western Australia linked to one of the world’s largest alumina refineries owned by BHP Billiton is being positioned for an initial public offering. General Electric’s Worsley multi-fuel cogeneration plant near Collie, 189km southeast of Perth, was built to meet the...
Alumina Limited had its price target upped by Morgan Stanley to $1.60 in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday. The firm currently has an overweight rating on the stock. Morgan Stanley has also taken action a number of other stocks recently. The firm downgraded shares of Statoil ASA(ADR)...
Australia Minerals and Mining Group Limited provides an update on the progress of the current high purity alumina (HPA) optimisation test work conducted by AMMG's specialist engineering consultants as well as the commencement of the bulk sample program for potential off-take customers. The last...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announces that Crede Capital Group, LLC ("Crede") has completed, late this afternoon, an investment of $10,000,000 in the form of convertible debentures and warrants pursuant to the exercise of the Series X Subscription Rights (the "Subscription Rights"), as issued and...
State mining company PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) said it would ship its first export of alumina next month from its new factory in Tayan, West Kalimantan. “The factory has been in trial operations for several months,” Antam president director Tato Miraza said on Thursday night as quoted by Antara....
Yunnan Aluminum Co., Ltd. revealed that controlled Yunnan Wenshan Aluminum Co., Ltd. planned production expansion of 600,000 tons aluminum oxide through technology upgrade, on the basis of existing production capacity reaching 800,000 tons per year, with a total investment of CNY 1.907 billion....
The plan by US-based Alcoa to divest its Jamaica operations forms part of its global transformation that will also see it slash production in Brazil and Australia, management indicated. It aims to contain costs which at times exceed revenues at the global company. "To further optimise the Alumina...
Alumina Limited had its price target increased by Morgan Stanley to $1.60 in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday. They currently have an overweight rating on the stock. Morgan Stanley has also updated their ratings on a number of other stocks in the last week. The firm reiterated its...
Strong earnings and a buoyant market outlook from US aluminium giant Alcoa failed to translate into good news for its local junior partner, Alumina, which is not exposed to the business that fired Alcoa’s second-quarter earnings. Alumina’s sole business is a 40 per cent stake in the Alcoa World...
Mercuria Energy Trading SA had alumina worth about $44 million stuck at China's Qingdao Port, where an investigation into a suspected financing fraud has been taking place, according to four banking sources with direct knowledge of the situation. The Swiss-based trader said in an email sent to its...
Shares in bauxite miner and aluminium smelter Alumina (AWC) have dropped this morning after the company’s chief executive said conditions declined in the second quarter, despite US joint venture partner Alcoa posting an earnings boost. Shares in Alumina finished yesterday 1.41% higher at $1.44...
Hong Kong-listed CITIC Resources Group announced today that it has filed a claim in Qingdao Maritime Court against the operator of the bonded warehouse at Qingdao port, requiring the operator to confirm the group’s ownership of the alumina and copper held by the operator, and to release and deliver...
The major projects benefiting from mining sector investment in Brazil's Pará state are Vale's Carajás Serra Sul S11D and Votorantim Metais'(VM) Alumina Rondon. That's according to Pará state's minerals industry association, Simineral. The association's president, José Fernando Gomes Júnior, told...
Odisha State Pollution Control Board will hold public hearing of the much-delayed project at Lanjigarh on July 30 The controversial project of Vedanta group to expand Sesa-Sterlite's Lanjigarh refinery is set to revive with Odisha deciding to undertake public hearing of the project later this...
Aluminum Corporation of China (CHALCO) said it entered into a joint venture agreement with Hangzhou Jinjiang Group Co., Ltd. to jointly establish Guizhou Huajin Aluminum Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of temporarily amounting to Rmb1 billion. CHALCO and Jinjiang Group will contribute Rmb 600...
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL has pledged 75% of its Irish alumina plant Aughinish Alumina against a credit from Glencore for alumina supplies in 2014-2016, as seen by PRIME economic news agency in a document that metal giant Norilsk Nickel has sent to its major shareholders on Wednesday. The...
