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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A central Queensland refinery has been fined more than $100,000 for releasing damaging aerosol spray last year. Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) pleaded guilty in the Gladstone Magistrates Court to allowing the release of caustic aerosol spray from its refinery in November 2012. The spray damaged...
Rio Tinto has revealed that its Gove alumina refinery in the Northern Territory will be closed by July next year, throwing more than 1,000 people out of work. The mining giant today briefed its 1,400 refinery workers on the timeline for the shutdown. In a statement, federal Industry Minister Ian...
The Federal Government is coming under increased pressure from the Northern Territory for offering a rescue package for Holden workers in southern states while doing little to help people hit by the looming closure of the Gove alumina refinery. Territory Labor MP Warren Snowdon says while he...
Utkal Alumina, a unit of the Aditya Birla Group has been promoting ’Maa Ganga Devi’, a self-help group (SHG). It helps village women in Kucheipadar and Dwimundi villages in Kashipur block , Rayagada district get training to start small businesses. They get a sum of Rs. 18,000 as initial working...
Almatis, a German company, has purchased a Burnside alumina refinery out of bankruptcy. Details of Almatis’ purchase of the refinery, which had been owned by Ormet Corp., were not disclosed. But in November, a U.S. bankruptcy court judge in Delaware approved Almatis’ $39 million bid to buy the...
Analysts predict that China's alumina output may reach 44.5 million tonnes in 2013, 18 percent higher than the last year; the capacity may reach 60 million tonnes, increased by 10%. According to the current situation, with the increase of domestic output, the import of alumina will decline. In the...
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says he expects Labor to be blamed by the government for an anticipated 2013/14 budget deficit of $50 billion. When the midyear financial review is released on Tuesday, it is being tipped that an extra $20 billion will have been added to Treasury's independent...
The alumina market which has been in structural overcapacity since 2007 will stay this way for the foreseeable future, Trafigura’s head of non-ferrous and bulk commodities Simon Collins said in the trading company’s first publically available report. A general lack of volatility restricted trading...
Alumina exports were up 26.3% year-on-year in November as a result of increased trade with Europe. Exports totalled 603,792 tonnes, compared with 478,056 tonnes in November 2012. Revenues for the month stood at $151.78 million, from $118.97 million a year ago. Norway acquired 163,938 tonnes,...
Senior union officials are in Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory to press Rio Tinto to clarify details about shutting down the Gove alumina refinery. Rio Tinto announced last month that it would be mothballing the refinery next year. Australian Manufacturing Workers Union national secretary Paul...
Vietnam’s alumina exports to China were expected to rise further in 2014 as new capacity comes on stream, Shanghai Metals Market has learned. July marked the first time that China ever imported alumina from Vietnam when inbound shipments of the raw material hit 14,944 tonnes. China imported another...
China’s alumina imports hit a yearly high in November on lower overseas prices and stocking demand from northwest China, Shanghai Metals Market has learned. Inbound shipments of the raw material climbed by 1.25% from a year ago to 550,000 tonnes last month, data from Chinese customs office showed....
Europe's highest court on Tuesday told a lower court to re-examine a long-running dispute between France, Italy and Ireland and EU competition regulators over whether millions of euros in state aid granted to the alumina sector was legal. The European Commission, the EU executive in charge of...
French scientists have managed to produce hydrogen by accelerating natural processes taking place in rocks deep below the Earth’s surface, possibly opening new avenues for hydrogen production. The team from the University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, used aluminium oxide to speed up the process...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announces that it has completed its previously disclosed public offering of units in the maximum contemplated amount of $16M. The Offering is supplemented by the previously announced binding subscription commitment for $40 million in additional units from Crede Capital Group,...
Rio Tinto say a photo of alumina dust escaping from its Yarwun wharf this week was nothing to worry about, stating the plume posed no threat to health or the environment. Rio Tinto say a photo of alumina dust escaping from its Yarwun wharf this week was nothing to worry about, claiming the plume...
Cape Alumina has officially announced it has abandoned its $1.2 billion Pisolite Hills mining project in far north Queensland's Cape York region but will push ahead with its nearby Bauxite Hills project. Last month, the State Government banned mining on the Pisolite Hills site, after declaring the...
The decision by mining giant Rio Tinto to close its Gove alumina refinery in the Northern Territory may face a legal challenge. Representatives of the Australian Workers Union met with Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles today to discuss the closure. The union claims Rio Tinto signed an agreement...
