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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Vedanta Resources has put on hold a five-fold expansion plan of its Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha even as it is mulling sourcing bauxite from other sources away from Niyamgiri Hills to feed existing and future operations. “With regard to the expansion project at Lanjigarh, the company’s fresh...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today it has filled a key position at its Cap-Chat HPA production plant with the hiring of Mr. Bruno Bibeau as Plant Manager. In a career spanning over 30 years, Mr. Bibeau has developed a deep expertise and successful track record in technical operations and plant...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. said Tuesday its high-purity alumina (HPA) project at Cap-Chat in the Gaspé region is well on track for commercial production early next year. On Monday, Montreal-based Orbite announced that Claude Lamoureux, retired head of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is the new board...
Outotec has agreed with Alumina do Norte do Brasil S.A. (Alunorte) on the delivery of a complete filtration plant for Alunorte's new red mud dry storage process at their alumina refinery in Brazil. Approximately EUR 50 million will be booked into Outotec's 2014 second quarter order intake....
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today the filing of its first quarter financial results ended March 31, 2014 and provided an update on the construction of its HPA facility. First Quarter Highlights (All dollar amounts are in Canadian dollars unless stated otherwise.) • Advanced its high purity...
The National Aluminium Company (Nalco), which plans to add fifth stream to its alumina refinery at Damanjodi in Koraput district, is awaiting Government approval for Potangi bauxite mines. “If we get Potangi deposits, we will be able to expand our refinery capacity by one million tonne at Damanjodi...
Orbite Aluminae Inc.today announced changes to the composition of its Board of Directors, whereby Claude Lamoureux, independent member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr. Glenn Kelly, the Company’s President and...
Alumina's primary source of income is in the form of dividends received from its investment in AWAC. The past few years have been anything but pleasant for shareholders in Alumina. In 2008 the company earned A$202 million, however in the years since then the returns have been US$300,000, US$36.7...
ALUMINA is expected to avoid becoming the first of the big-name resources companies to suffer a second strike from shareholders on its remuneration report at today’s annual meeting in Melbourne. Last year, Alumina suffered a no vote of slightly more than 50 per cent, prompting an overhaul of its...
ASX-listed MetroCoal’s takeover offer for fellow-listed Cape Alumina closed on Tuesday, with the company gaining a 57.22% shareholding in the takeover target. MetroCoal launched its takeover of Cape Alumina in March, offering shareholders 0.6c a share in cash. The offer was accepted by some of Cape...
National Aluminium Company (NALCO) has invited expression of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environment-friendly technology for a gallium plant it is planning to set up in Odisha. The aluminium major has plans to set up a 10 tonnes per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant at its Alumina Refinery in...
Publicly listed diversified mining company Aneka Tambang (Antam) reported that its first-quarter sales dropped by nearly 35 percent year-on-year (y-o-y). However, Antam’s bauxite production rose by 186 percent y-o-y to 115,340 wmt, as the company has been aggressively boosting the commodity’s...
The State Environmental Council (COEMA), an agency linked to the State of Pará Department of the Environment (SEMA), northern Brazil, approved, on Wednesday, April 23, the granting of the Preliminary License (PL) to the Alumina Rondon project, a Votorantim Metais development to be built in the city...
Chinese alumina prices based on term contract fell by 50 yuan a ton to 2,250 a ton, a pricing data report by Shangai Metals Market said. The fall in price is mainly due to weak aluminum prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange which further is related to alumina prices, says SMM. Chinese alumina...
AMMG updates on its South West HPA (High Purity Alumina) Project, Western Australia HPA Optimisation Test Work Underway • AMMG engaged specialist consulting engineers to conduct ‘optimisation test work’ on the process flowsheet developed by AMMG; • Test work aims to identify areas of potential...
Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Group owned Hindalco Industries, is looking at alumina production of one million tonne in 2014-15 from its refinery at Kashipur in south Odisha's Rayagada district. The refinery commenced operation six months back and it...
Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) expected its instructive output of metallurgic aluminum oxide to be 13.02 million tonnes and the instructive output of alumina to be 3.21 million tonnes in 2014. In accordance with Chalco’s production target for 2014, it intended to raise funds through issue...
After weeks of declines, Chinese alumina prices seemed to be stabilising this week with supply and demand approaching a balance. On the local spot market, alumina prices were at 2,180-2,520 yuan ($353-408) per tonne on Thursday April 24, compared with 2,200-2,520 yuan per tonne on Thursday April...
