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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Alumina Limited‘s stock had its “underperform” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Credit Suisse in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, Stock Ratings Network.com reports. Shares of Alumina Limited traded down 1.01% during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting A$0.985. Alumina...
Falling Australian alumina prices have forced Chinese traders at ports to cut alumina prices, Shanghai Metals Market has learned. The low-end alumina quotation at Lianyungang has now fallen to RMB 2,560/mt, down RMB 20/mt on a weekly basis. China’s alumina imports began to drop in April. China...
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Alumina, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, might ask the Odisha state government for a alternative mining site after its proposed mining project in the Niyamgiri hills range suffered a fresh setback today. The seventh village, of the total 12, today rejected the...
The FOB price of West Australian alumina fell to USD 316.5/mt last week, down USD 2.5/mt on a weekly basis and the lowest level since last September. The price decline was due largely to falling LME aluminum prices and sagging demand from China. First, LME three-month aluminum contract prices fell...
The Northern Territory Government has reneged on a proposed deal to supply gas to Rio Tinto's Gove alumina refinery. Earlier this year, the Government offered 300 petajoules of gas over 10 years from its domestic supply source to save the refinery, operated by Rio subsidiary Pacific Aluminium. Rio...
China’s alumina output hit 3.83 million mt in June, up 8.66% YoY, and 21.38 million mt during H1, also up 12.18%, according to the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA). Commissioning of new capacity and completion of facility maintenance pushed China’s alumina output higher. Shanxi...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announces the issuance of an aggregate of 14,525,146 class A shares at a price of C$0.945 per share to Gastier MP Inc. and Vtek Consultants Inc., two of its suppliers, in full settlement of their respective outstanding claims. The shares are issued pursuant to settlement...
Utkal Alumina International Ltd, a unit of Hindalco Industries, plans to raise up to Rs 20 billion ($335.8 million) via sale of 10-year bonds, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The firm intends to sell floating rate bonds benchmarked to the SBI base rate, which stands at 9.70...
Four days after Dongria Kondhs of Serkapadi village rejected bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills, 33 of 36 villagers, including 23 women, of Kesarpadi in Rayagada district on Monday opposed mining in the hills, dealing another blow to Vedanta Aluminium's plans. Gram Sabhas will be held in 10 more...
Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) Chief Operating Officer Mukesh Kumar on Monday meets Chief Secretary JK Mohapatra. After the meeting Mr. Kumar said the VAL hoped to receive bauxite from the State Government to run its Lanjigarh refinery plant in Kalahandi district at full capacity. Kumar said, “We...
Hindalco Industries, through its subsidiary Utkal Alumina, has closed a Rp30 billion ($502 million) refinancing for its aluminium refinery project in Odisha, India. The financing, which was lead arranged by SBI and carries a tenor of 8 years, is to replace a Rp49.06 billion project financing, which...
ASX-listed Australia Minerals and Mining Group (AMMG) has launched a definitive feasibility study (DFS) of its South West alumina project, in Western Australia. “The DFS is the next stage of development for this project, as it will detail the design, construction, capital expenditure and operating...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today that it has filed a final short form prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, in connection with the "best efforts" marketed offering of class A shares and warrants of Orbite. As a result of today's Prospectus...
While China’s economic growth stabilises, the country’s demand for bauxite and fused alumina for refractory applications in steel production continues, and can be viewed as responsible for initiating several new projects in the bauxite-rich provinces of Henan, Guizhou, and Shanxi. Among these are...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Thursday restarted its 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha, about seven months after the company had shut down the unit due to scarcity of bauxite. "We have started operations of the alumina refinery. We have to limit its capacity...
Anticipating trouble from its workers union, the management of the state-owned Aluminium producer NALCO is deliberating whether it should supply a 'trial' amount of alumina to Vedanta Resources' refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha. NALCO had obtained an advance from its private sector rival for the trial...
China’s alumina imports totaled 90,000 mt in June, down 71% YoY and 55% MoM, the lowest level in 21 months. Imports amounted to 1.65 million mt in 1H, also down 33% YoY, data from China Customs showed. China’s imported alumina came primarily from Australia. The CIF price of Australian alumina...
Alumina prices in Guangxi fell to RMB 2,240-2,300/mt in early July, down almost RMB 100/mt from early-to-mid June. Persistently depressed aluminum prices are the major reason behind the decline in alumina prices. Oversupply in Guangxi also contributed to the fall in alumina prices in the region....
