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 UAE Dubai Aluminium Group and Mubadala, an investment fund owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, announced on May 16, they will rise to 100% in the capital of Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC), by purchasing the shares of BHP Billiton and Global Alumina Corporation in society. Dubai Aluminium...
Global Alumina Corporation announced today that it has signed a share purchase agreement with DM GAV Limited, a company established and owned equally by Mubadala Development Company PJSC and Dubai Aluminium, to sell all of Global Alumina's interests in Guinea Alumina Corporation Limited to DM GAV....
Diversified conglomerate Vedanta Resources expects to restart its alumina refinery in Odisha'sLanjigarh by July and is hopeful of securing approvals for doing mining at Niyamgiri hills in the state by September. "Management expects that the mining approvals for mining and the statutory approvals...
Global Alumina Corporation announced today its financial and operating results for the three month period ended March 31, 2013. The text of the quarterly unaudited financial statements and management's discussion and analysis can be viewed or printed from the Company's SEDAR reference page at...
India's state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) has sold 30,000 tonnes of alumina at around $330 per tonne free on board (FOB) to a Singapore-based buyer, company sources said on Wednesday. The alumina will be shipped at the end of this month, said the sources at India's third-largest aluminium...
The Federal Government has approved the $1.4 billion South of Embley project near Weipa after years of wrangling. Environment Minister Tony Burke signed off on the project with 76 conditions relating mainly to the project's impact from shipping on the Great Barrier Reef. The original referral...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. announces that the Convertible Debentures issued in December 2012, will begin trading today. Convertible Debentures The Debentures will begin trading today at the market open on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol ORT.DB (see TSX Bulletin 2013 0468). On December 13,...
The Utkal Alumina International Limited, a unit of Hindalco Industries, plans to start trial production at its 1.5 million tonnes per annum alumina refinery in Odisha by the end of May, an official said Monday. The green field project at Doragurha near the district headquarters town of Rayagada,...
Pacific Aluminium, owners of the loss-making Gove refinery, have released details of the proposed 600 km Katherine to Gove pipeline, and has said that access to the pipeline would not be viable for local communities. The pipeline, which was announced in February as part of a plan to save the...
An alumina refinery project, delayed by almost 20 years due to local and environmental protests, is finally ready to start trial production. The plant, at Doraguha, near Kasipur in Odisha's Rayagada district, is owned by Utkal Alumina International Ltd, a subsidiary of Hindalco Industries, which is...
A mining company building a billion-dollar gas pipeline to the Gove alumina refinery says it will be not be economically viable for remote Arnhem Land communities to tap into the supply. Pacific Aluminium has released plans for the proposed route of its 600 kilometre pipeline from Katherine to...
Data from China Customs show that China imported 320,000 mt of alumina during April, up 14.3% YoY and 120,000 mt MoM. YTD imports through April totaled 1.36 million mt, down 5.6% YoY. SMM attributes the rebound in China’s alumina imports in April to falling Australian alumina prices. The FOB price...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., developing pilot-scale alumina production based on the Gaspé region’s clay deposits, is broadening its top management team. Glenn R. Kelly, who has led Quebec City’s CO2 Solutions Inc., a Quebec City developer of carbon capture technology, over the past four years, was named...
Construction of some new alumina capacities in China slowed against sluggish alumina prices and production cuts at aluminum smelters. One alumina producer in Henan told SMM that it will postpone the commissioning of newly-built 600,000 mt/yr alumina capacity to August from originally scheduled...
SMM data indicate that settlement prices for alumina long-term contracts in May are RMB 2,483/mt, 17% of the closing prices of SHFE three-month aluminum contracts. The price is RMB 25/mt lower than in April, and also down RMB 102/mt from January. Domestic alumina prices stabilized before and after...
State-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO), India's third-largest producer of aluminium, has issued a spot tender to export 30,000 tonnes of alumina, two company sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The last date of submission of bids is May 14 and delivery would be made at the end of this month, said...
The green field bauxite mining and refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate is ready for commissioning and will be operational by the end of this...
The Institute of Minerals and Material Technology has succeeded in extracting alumina from industrial waste fly ash and is all set to become the first laboratory in the country to develop the process into a commercially viable technology for the industries. The scientists at IMMT have extracted...
