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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The Failure of the Government to find a buyer for Clarendon Alumina Partners (CAP) has led to Jamaica telling the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it will not be divested by year end as was originally agreed. "We have had to adjust our strategy for the divestment of Clarendon Alumina Partners...
From Alumina to Woodside Petroleum, research house Morningstar has unveiled its nine top stock picks from the 230 companies it analyses from the Australian Securities Exchange. Morningstar’s best stock ideas are “our most-vetted, highest conviction ideas” at attractive prices, according to the...
International Company plans to invest about $4 billion in the construction of alumina production complex at Zardalek deposit in Batken province. The executive director of Matrass Mining Group international company in Kyrgyzstan Azad Mikhailov stated at the meeting with the Plenipotentiary...
The largest alumina refinery in Europe, RUSAL Aughinish, which is located on the Shannon Estuary, plunged into the red last year as it racked up pre-tax losses of $10.4m (€7.68m). The business recorded the loss as revenues at the refinery dipped by $24m, or 2.5pc, from $610.57m to $586m in the 12...
The local MP for the mining town of Nhulunbuy says locals are still worried about the region's future, despite a meeting yesterday where more gas was promised for a mining company to continue operating. Labor MP Lynne Walker who represents Nhulunbuy said a town meeting on Monday with Federal...
Votorantim Metais’ (VM) Alumina Rondon project, an alumina refinery located close to a bauxite mine in the north of Brazil, is expected to start operations in 2017, Carlos Gatti, the project’s operation manager told Metal Bulletin. VM is currently concluding feasibility studies and construction...
Federal industry minister Ian Macfarlane and NT chief minister Adam Giles will meet with Arnhem Land locals and businesses today over the fate of the Gove alumina refinery. The loss-making Pacific Aluminium plant, owned by Rio Tinto, could have its operations suspended, among four other options its...
Aluminium major NALCO has rejected a request to sell surplus alumina to bauxite starved Vedanta for its smelter at Jharsuguda, saying it was against the Navaratna PSU's policy to supply it in domestic market. "We are not in a position to provide alumina or bauxite to any other company inside the...
Chief Minister Adam Giles says the Northern Territory Government has done all it can to deliver gas supplies to Rio Tinto to ensure it keeps its Gove alumina refinery open. Mr Giles held private meetings with community and business leaders at Gove on Tuesday to discussing the future of the...
China’s alumina prices have stopped sliding on cost support after having trended down for the past two years due to oversupply, making imports attractive. Shanghai Metals Market (SMM)’s alumina prices have held between 2,260-2,550 yuan ($368-415) per tonne in the past month or so, comparing to...
China’s alumina imports fell 38.4% month-on-month in August, as record-high imports of bauxite tamed demand for alumina. “Policy influenced China’s alumina imports this year. [Buyers] are scrambling to import bauxite due to fears that Indonesia’s [impending] ban on raw material export will make...
China’s alumina output jumped to this year’s high in August after Shanxi Xinfa Chemical Industry Co. started putting on stream its 800,000-tpy production capacity. Production of alumina climbed by 13.7% year-on-year to 4 million tonnes last month, according to data obtained by Shanghai Metals...
Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles met Rio Tinto this week to outline gas supply options to keep its Gove alumina refinery open, as he called on the global miner to "back the Northern Territory". Mr Giles said that at the meeting on Monday he offered gas to the company, including supply...
Junior resources companies MetroCoal and Cape Alumina are expected to announce a deal today after both companies halted trading in their shares ahead of finalising a corporate merger. Cape Alumina has a market capitalisation of $13 million and Metrocoal is valued at $8m. "The trading halt is...
HUDSON RESOURCES INC. is pleased to announce that the Company has successfully produced alumina (aluminum oxide) from initial bench-scale testing on the calcium feldspar anorthosite from its White Mountain Project. The objective of the testwork, which has been undertaken at SGS Lakefield under the...
Police on Friday charged six Lithuanians with the embezzlement of 19.4 million Bosnian marka ($13.4 million) from Bosnia's alumina plant Birac Zvornik, which was forced into bankruptcy and taken over by the government. The ongoing investigation has revealed tax evasion and irregular spending by the...
Guinea's 2013 growth target could be undermined by a lack of alumina output in the first half of the year stemming from a prolonged shutdown of RUSAL's 630,000 tonne-per-year Friguia refinery, a finance ministry report said. Work at the refinery was suspended in April 2012 following a labour...
Aneka Tambang will commence commissioning of its chemical grade alumina (CGA) plant - Indonesia’s first - located in Tayan, West Kalimantan, in October. Construction of the Tayan CGA project began in June 2011 in order to process Aneka’s bauxite reserves to produce up to 300,000 tonnes of CGA per...
