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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Improved margins reported by leading US aluminium/alumina producer Alcoa in the second quarter have given brokers a reason to expect a better performance from Alumina Ltd this year. Alcoa reported a surprise quarterly increase in the alumina division's earnings margin to US$47/t from US$44/t. Costs...
Dubai Aluminium (Dubal), the owner of the world's largest single-site primary aluminium smelter and Abu Dhabi state investment fund Mubadala have secured the full ownership of Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC). A leading producer of alumina in West Africa, GAC also mines for the raw material...
Global Alumina Corporation is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale by the Company of all of its interest in Guinea Alumina Corporation, Ltd. to DM GAV Limited, pursuant to the terms of the previously announced share purchase agreement entered into by the Company and DM GAV Limited....
ALUMINA'S buddy Alcoa is sticking to its forecast of 7 per cent growth in global aluminium demand this calendar year, in ?essentially balanced'' alumina and aluminium markets. This is despite lower prices for the finished metal and the general industry funk. In fact Alcoa's downstream operations...
Tehran has been importing high-grade refined alumina ore from European countries that are not included in EU’s sanctions but could be used in making armor parts and missile components. Although the latest US sanction effective this month include “raw or semi-finished metals,” Iran has acquired...
Cape Alumina's Pisolite Hills project has already been declared a Project of State Significance by the Queensland Government, with the project now delivering 'attractive financial returns'. Signficantly, the study forecasted that at full production it could produce at an FOB cash operating cost of...
China is ambitious to build an alumina refinery in Indonesia with an investment up to US$1 billion in two phases. The joint venture refinery began to be formed. To pave the mega investment, domestic company PT Harita Jayaraya teams up with China Hongqiao Group Ltd. to form a joint venture (JV),...
PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina Refinery, a joint venture between PT Harita Group and China Hongqiao, plans to build a smelting plant to process bauxite into aluminum in Ketapang, West Kalimantan. Harita's CEO, Lim Gunawan Hariyanto, said in Jakarta on Wednesday that construction of the smelting...
Global Alumina Corporation has announced the results of its annual and special meeting of shareholders held on July 2, 2013. A total of 126,007,004 common shares were represented at the meeting, representing 68.73% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company. All matters presented at...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) Tuesday said it has received about 35,000 tons of bauxite from Gujarat to re-start its alumina refinery in Odisha'sKalahandi district at lower capacity. "We have started getting bauxite from Gujarat. We will build a buffer stock of at least one and half lakh tones of...
Vedanta Aluminium is awaiting Odisha government’s report on long-term raw material supply to its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in the state before resuming operations at its unit, that has been lying closed for the past seven months, say company sources. The aluminium firm had closed its 1 million ton...
Data from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) show China’s alumina output from January to May grew faster than aluminum output. China produced 3.72 million mt of alumina in May, and 17.56 million mt during January-May, up 10.87% YoY. Aluminum output in May totaled 1.77 million...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. said Friday it has fixed the terms of a previously announced offering of units comprised of class A shares and warrants. The company said in a press release it has reached its financing objectives as it anticipates raising up to $50 million, at a price of 70 cents per unit....
A senior mining ministry official has spurred doubts on prospects for the reopening of the stalled Windalco Kirkvine alumina plant in Manchester, saying it is being scrapped for parts. Oral Rainford, a principal director in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, told an audience...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announced today that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, in connection with a “best efforts” marketed offering of class A shares and warrants of Orbite. The Corporation has retained Euro...
China Customs data show that China imported 196,000 mt of alumina from Australia in May, down 66.3% YoY. YTD imports through May totaled 1.54 million mt, down 16.1% YoY. The CIF price of Australian alumina remained high at USD 362.5/mt in May. The FOB price of Australian alumina fell from...
China’s alumina output hit 3.86 million mt during May, up 10.29% YoY, bringing capacity to 45.45 million mt/yr on an annualized basis, down 1.8%. The lower annualized capacity was mainly resulted from aluminum smelters’ production cuts which left some alumina markets in surplus and weak alumina...
The State Government has sought status report from the Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL) on 10 MoUs signed for projects in aluminium, cement, auto ancillaries and titanium. The projects of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), Aditya Alumina, RSB Metaltech, ASO Cement,...
