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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Australian coal-based energy firm MetroCoal has increased its stake in Cape Alumina from 46.04% to 57.22%. As per the offer made on 18 March 2014, the company has purchased 27,136,354 shares of Cape Alumina for 0.6 cents per share. MetroCoal is seeking to review Capes operations and merge the...
ZOEY Ware and her young family have returned from the red dust of the Northern Territory. While Gladstone isn't a huge place, it is certainly a city in comparison to Gove in the north-eastern corner of Arnhem Land. With the announcement of the alumina refinery shutting down in the latter months of...
Alumina Limited notes Alcoa Inc’s (“Alcoa”) quarterly earnings release and attaches it for reference. Relevant market data to assist readers in understanding the market, operational and commercial matters of Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals (“AWAC”) are attached. Alumina Limited’s CEO Peter Wasow,...
Inbound shipments of alumina to China fell 18.91% to 376,900 tonnes in March due to production cuts at aluminum producers and falling prices, Shanghai Metals Market understands. In China, more than 1.32 million tonnes of aluminum capacity has been put offline by the week ending April 18, leaving...
“International Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Society (IBAAS) in association with CHALIECO, China and JNARRDC, India is organising an International mega event during November 27-29, 2014 in Visakhapatnam, India. The topic of this 3 days conference is “Technological Improvements & Market Developments...
GLADSTONE'S Queensland Alumina Ltd is set for a healthy future that is capable of producing alumina for the next 40 years at least as the business continues to improve efficiency, Despite an organisational restructure in 2012 which saw 130 positions cut from QAL, the plant's biggest setback was...
iAbrasive announced on Tuesday that in early April, most of brown-fused alumina and sub-white-fused alumina markets keep stable. The mainstream taxes of brown-fused alumina dumping furnace interval sand, stationary furnace interval sand and sub-white- fused alumina dumping furnace interval sand are...
National Aluminium Company’s [NALCO] alumina Refinery located at Damanjodi in Koraput district of Odisha has got ISO 50001:2011 ‘Energy Management System certification’ by M/s. DNV-GL of Netherland. The refinery has been accorded this certification based on its highly energy efficient measures...
UC RUSAL is set to complete a project to switch the Aughinish alumina refinery, Europe’s largest alumina producer, from heavy fuel oil to gas as its main energy source. The two steam generators designed to generate a total of 300 tonnes per hour of reliable, high-pressure superheated steam will...
Norton Abrasives, the world’s leading manufacturer of metal fabrication abrasives products for over 125 years, has introduced Gemini XXL, the fastest grinding 100% aluminum oxide depressed center wheels on the market. Providing 50% more life and metal removal than standard aluminum oxide wheels,...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., a cleantech company currently commercializing its high-purity alumina process, today provided a general update on its previously announced financing activities. The change in provincial government resulting from the April 7, 2014 elections in Québec, is not expected to have...
Alumina chief executive Peter Wasow said industry conditions remained difficult in the first quarter as oversupply continued to depress alumina prices, despite “robust” growth in global demand and a strong result for joint venture partner Alcoa’s alumina unit. Alcoa posted a 59 per cent increase in...
Economic ties between Iran and Russia are developing successfully, Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mehdi Karbasian said. "There are good potentials for boosting cooperation between Tehran and Moscow," he said. As an example of growing bilateral ties, Mehdi mentioned the signing of a...
Chinese alumina prices remained weak this week amid sluggish demand ahead of the long weekend. Alumina was offered around $319 per tonne fob Australia this week, compared with $317-318 per tonne last week, according to market participants. "The suspension of alumina loading at a Norsk Hydro...
The Pará State Environmental Secreteriate (SEMA) has reinstated Alunorte's environmental operational license for loading of alumina at its port, Vila do Conde, with effect as of 3. April 2014. This results in the resumption of loading of alumina with immediate effect. The resumption of alumina...
Is Alumina Ltd (AWC) about to shake investor apathy? China's aluminium production industry is becoming more rational and CIMB considers this will benefit the pricing of alumina. CIMB's analysis suggests there's now much less chance that alumina prices will ease over the medium term. The broker...
As Cape Alumina advises its shareholders to reject a 0.6c-a-share takeover offer, suitor MetroCoal warned on Wednesday that it would not increase its bidding price. Cape Alumina said the price was significantly lower than share prices prior to the offer being made, and that it failed to attribute...
Outotec has agreed with Orbite Aluminae Inc. on the delivery of a new calcination system for Orbite's high purity alumina production facility located in Cap-Chat, Québec. The contract value is below EUR 10 million and it has been booked in Outotec's 2014 first quarter order intake. Outotec's scope...
