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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Pacific Aluminium won't commit to the struggling Gove alumina refinery - claiming it now needs even more time to consider the NT Government's gas offer. The company's Canada-based chief executive Phillip Strachan flew into Darwin on Monday to hold crucial face-to-face talks with Chief Minister Adam...
Allen & Overy has advised CPI International Minerals (CPIIM), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Power Investment Corporation, on the conclusion of the mining convention for CPIIM’s world-scale alumina project in the Republic of Guinea. The convention, which was signed in Conakry, the capital, on 6...
Hungarian alumina maker MAL is laying off about 250 people as it ceases processing its own bauxite, liquidator Judit Kemerle Szego said yesterday. About 72% of the layoffs are skilled workers. The layoffs will take place by next May, she added. MAL earlier laid off 183 people at its bauxite mine in...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. wishes to update the market on its ongoing financing initiatives. Orbite management reconfirms that it is actively focused on completing an equity offering within the coming weeks. The financing initiative has progressed positively since the last update of August 14, 2013. "As...
Alumina exports remained practically flat year-on-year in August as a reduction in volumes sent to Norway was offset by increased trade with Canada. Exports totalled 480,625 tonnes, compared with 484,733 tonnes in August 2012. Revenues for the month totalled $121.34 million, from $120.99 million a...
Chief Minister Adam Giles has further reduced his offer of gas to power Rio Tinto's alumina refinery at Gove in the Northern Territory. Speaking at the South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference (SEAAOC) conference in Darwin, Mr Giles again justified reneging on the offer of 300 petajoules of...
Graphene can reinforce ceramics, simultaneously making them conductive – at least that's what Graphenea's most recent scientific work demonstrates. The team of researchers found that when a bit of graphene is added to the ceramic alumina, the material becomes up to 50% less likely to break under...
Finnish company Outotec has been awarded a contract by Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium in UAE to provide a license and design support for a potential new alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. The value of the contract has not been disclosed. The company said that Mubadala and Dubal had placed the order to...
Alumina prices dropped back to what sources said was a more representative level on Friday September 6, following a summer of higher prices supported by decent interest for the sporadic deals on offer over the past weeks. Metal Bulletin’s fob Australia alumina index fell to $312.88 per tonne from...
Outotec agreed to deliver a technology license for a potential alumina refinery in the United Arab Emirates. Outotec and Hatch, as an unincorporated joint venture, have been awarded a contract by Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) for the provision of a technology license as well as the basic and...
Government of Jamaica announced today the issuance of an aggregate principal amount of US$161,904,731 of its 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021. The 2021 Jamaica Notes were issued in connection with Jamaica's offer to exchange with Eligible Holders outstanding 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by...
China’s alumina imports during July totaled 234,200 mt, down 49.08% YoY. YTD imports through July were 1.88 million mt, also down 35.78% YoY, according to China Customs. China’s alumina imports in July were up from June levels, however, since falling Australian alumina prices stimulated Chinese...
After a failed bid to buy surplus alumina from National Aluminium Company (Nalco) to run its alumina smelting facility at Jharsuguda, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has sought the intervention of the Odisha government on the matter. With its aluminum smelter at risk, VAL wants the state government to...
National Aluminium Co (NALCO), based in Bhubaneswar, India, is planning to raise its alumina output by 19% and its alumina exports by 40% for this fiscal year, in a bid to increase dollar inflow into India’s weakening economy. With the recent decline in the value of the rupee, Asia’s third largest...
The driving forces of NT politics – development and dependence – have been amply displayed via the issue of gas supplies for the Gove alumina operation. The owners of Gove have previously thrice rejected the option to pipe gas directly to the facility. Yet six months ago the operation (now owned by...
The Government of Jamaica announced today the expiration of its offer to exchange with Eligible Holders (as defined below) outstanding 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by Clarendon Alumina Production Limited and guaranteed by Jamaica for 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by Jamaica. CAP...
It has been a divisive part of Kwinana since it opened its doors 50 years ago. This month the Alcoa Kwinana Refinery produced its 75,000,000th tonne of alumina, coinciding with last month’s 50th anniversary since the plant began operation. The refinery opened in 1963 and was the company’s first...
The Jamaican economy is expected to record growth ranging between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent over the July to September quarter according to Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Colin Bullock. He was addressing the PIOJ’s quarterly media briefing on Tuesday August 27 at the...
