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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Union Water Resources Minister to meet Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over issue of water for Utkal Alumina project from Hirakud reservoir. This was informed by the Finance Min P Chidambaram after the meeting of The Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI). Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said...
Iran has hiked purchases of alumina from China and India in the past two months as the country scrambles to shore up supply after the U.S. tightened sanctions on raw and semi-processed materials at the start of July. Western measures targeting Iran's disputed nuclear programme have hit many sectors...
In what would have been a win-win situation, Nalco could have channelled its surplus alumina to Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Aluminium, which is starved of the input to make aluminium, and in the process improved its earnings as well. But severe resistance from the state-owned company’s employees’ union,...
Mining companies have been cheering the fall of the dollar, none more so than Melbourne-based Alumina, which has disclosed a $US30 million ($33m) annual profit before tax price sensitivity to just a 1c move in the US exchange rate. For a firm that has been struggling to break-even at best of late,...
Alumina has narrowed its first-half loss as the company's aggressive cost cutting began to bear fruit, and a higher US currency helped to trim production costs. Alumina, a refiner of the white granular material used to make aluminum metal, said its net loss in the six months through June was US$2.4...
Pacific Aluminium is stalling on discussions about the future of the Gove alumina refinery and won't meet the Territory Government until at least mid-September. In parliament yesterday, Chief Minister Adam Giles said he had requested a meeting "as soon as possible" to discuss the Government's...
National Aluminium Co Ltd plans to raise its alumina exports by 40 per cent to 1.4 million tonnes this fiscal year, its production chief said, helping the country increase its dollar inflow amid a plunge in the rupee. Asia's third-largest economy is looking to boost exports and lower imports of...
"The fate of Nhulunbuy continues to hang in the balance as the Northern Territory government and opposition trade barbs over who is responsible for the escalation of the situation. Leader of the Labor opposition, Delia Lawrie, on Tuesday called for a censure motion of the government over the issue....
Alumina Limited was downgraded by equities research analysts at Bank of America Corp. to an “underperform” rating in a research note issued to investors on Monday, Stock Ratings Network reports. Alumina Limited traded down 3.79% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $3.55. 65,987 shares of the...
Aluminium contributes nearly 75% to company’s profit Hindalco Industries will be producing around 3 million tonnes of alumina and 1 million tonne of aluminium from 2014, as production from the company’s Mahan and Utkal Alumina will come on-stream. Mahan aluminium smelter, in Madhya Pradesh, is...
On July 31, 2013, The Government of Jamaica announced an offer to exchange with Eligible Holders of the 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by Clarendon Alumina Production Limited ("CAP") and guaranteed by Jamaica. Jamaica is offering to exchange any and all CAP Notes held by such Eligible...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. has confirmed that it plans an equity offering within the coming weeks. Wednesday's announcement came after the close of markets in which stock in the development stage ore producer plunged nine cents, or more than 18%, to 40.5 cents on heavy volume of more than 6.3 million...
Alcoa Australia was fined $27,500 in Perth Magistrates Court last week for allowing dust from its alumina refinery facility in Wagerup to escape from its boundary into the environment. The court was told dust from Alcoa’s residue disposal area crossed over the boundary of the site into the...
Hindalco Industries, the manufacturer of non-ferrous metals would save nearly Rs 150 crore of interest payment on annual basis following refinancing of Utkal alumina project, Managing Director, D Bhattacharya told CNBC-TV18. The Aditya Birla group company refinanced Rs 4700 crore loan from State...
Alcoa welcomes the Environment Minister's announcement today to amend the Wagerup refinery's environmental licence to increase the refinery's annual production limit from 2.6 to 2.65 million tonnes a year. This is not an expansion of the refinery. An increase in the production limit by 50,000...
The opposition has raised concerns about recent developments in Government's efforts to dispose of over US$400 million ($30 billion) in debt triggered by the 2004/05 alumina forward-sale agreement with global metals and energy trader Glencore International. Opposition spokesman on finance,...
China imported 230,000 mt of alumina in July, surging 156% MoM, but down 50% YoY. YTD imports through July totaled 1.88 million mt, a drop of 36% YoY, according to China Customs. Imported alumina lost its price appeal over domestic materials and supply of domestic alumina increased, leading Chinese...
In Q2 2013, Vale's bauxite extraction was 2.8% higher than in Q2 2012 and 6.0% higher than in Q1 2013 as a result of increased alumina production. Alumina production increased 8.5% against Q2 2012 which experienced processing issues and slightly decreased against Q1 2013. Internal consumption of...
