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 Aluminium Ltd, part of the London-based Vedanta group, is likely to operate its refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha, at full capacity from December, after a year marked by low utilisation and a shutdown. S.K. Roongta, Vice-Chairman and head of Vedanta group’s aluminium and power businesses, told...
The future of Rio Tinto Limited's (Melbourne, Australia) Gove alumina refinery is still far from certain, as all concerned parties continue negotiations to secure a supply of natural gas for the facility. The refinery and bauxite mine on the Gove Peninsula, 650 kilometres (400 miles) east of...
Orbite Aluminae announced today that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, in connection with a "best efforts" marketed offering of up to $16 million in Units comprised of Convertible Unsecured...
AMCOL International Corporation ACO announced today that it is furnishing more than 1.5 million square meters (16 million square feet) of its Resistex (R) geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) product to a new aluminum processing facility in Saudi Arabia. The 25.3 million contract includes supply of the...
BASF Corporation representatives joined local community leaders at the BASF Vidalia site to celebrate the completion of an expansion with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony. The project increases production capacity of activated alumina adsorbents and consolidates regional manufacturing activities...
Det Norske Veritas will collect data from the 11 metering stations next week (week 46), expecting start-up on Monday 11 November 2013. Nordic Mining's first reporting of results from the measuring will be published in week 47. The 11 metering stations are currently recording parameters like...
Century Aluminium kicked the tires at Ormet Corp’s alumina refinery in Burnside but decided against acquiring the facility. “We take a look at everything ... and we took a look at this one,” Michael A Bless, Century president and ceo, said during a conference call with analysts, noting that the...
Sapphire will surely be part of the rumored iOS phablet, the iPhone 6, as Apple announced that it has secured a steady and relatively affordable source of the sturdy coating material. A report from earlier this year suggested that future smartphones from Apple may use sapphire, a crystalline form...
China’s alumina output rose in September as new capacity came on stream, Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) has learned. China produced 3.95 million mt of alumina in September, an increase of 33.55% from a year ago and up 100,000 mt from August levels. YTD output through September totaled 33.17 million...
Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller meets Mr. Mark Hansen, head of Noble Group Metals Division and Mr Richard Elman, Chairman of Noble Group with Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining. Noble Resources Ltd which has entered into an agreement with Clarendon...
Two alumina refineries located in the Eastern Ghats mountains in India are not able to mine their nominated bauxite deposits as a result of forest and tribal issues, Dr Ashok Nandi, secretary of International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society said on Thursday October 31. Vedanta’s 1-million...
China’s bauxite imports are expected to remain stable but a future raw material for alumina could be coal ash, according to Sandy Kong, senior analyst at BGRIMM said. “Coal ash is forecast to be an important raw material in the future. Four tonnes of coal generates one tonne of coal ash,” she told...
Recently, WIKA Consortium with Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Jero Wacik and Minister of State Owned Enterprises Dahlan Iskan had inaugurated the largest Alumina Processing Plant in South East Asia located in Tayan Sub-district, Sanggau District, Monday (28/10). Capacity Production of...
Australia’s Alumina Ltd expects Saudi Arabia’s 1.8 million alumina refinery to start production in the fourth quarter of 2014, manager corporate strategy and development Andrew Wood told delegates at Metal Bulletin’s 3rd Asian bauxite and alumina conference. "Our joint venture with Ma’aden – 4...
Showa Denko K.K. and PT ANTAM of Indonesia, held a ceremony for the commencement of commissioning phase of a new chemical alumina plant in the Tayan District. West Kalimantan, Indonesia, on October 28 as a milestone of the construction project that started in April 2011. After going through the...
Metal Bulletin’s fob Australia alumina index settled at $320.92 per tonne on Friday October 25, from $321.22 previously, as spot activity ramped up with deals mainly into China. The majority of volume went at $322 per tonne, with one producer selling two large shipments into China at that level....
The acting Chief Executive of the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO), Mr Dan Achampong, has challenged the government to make VALCO process the country’s bauxite into alumina, to reduce the cost of aluminium. He said this will help create over two million jobs and also make the aluminium industry a...
Bankrupt US aluminum producer Ormet is in "advanced discussions" about selling its 540,000 mt/year alumina refinery in Burnside, Louisiana, which is currently idled, and a deal is expected soon, CEO Michael Tanchuk told Platts Thursday. Citing a confidentiality agreement, Tanchuk said in an...
