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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Shares in Australia’s Alumina are soaring after its joint venture partner Alcoa signalled that the aluminium industry had turned around, with a jump in profit. The US aluminium giant Alcoa reported a 59 per cent rise in first quarter earnings. Alumina’s shares were up 6.25 cents, or 6.22 per cent,...
Engineering & construction giant L&T on Tuesday said its integrated alumina refinery and smelter project in the state is under suspension. L&T through a joint venture partnership with Dubai Aluminium Ltd in 2005 had proposed to invest $5515 million on a three million tonne per annum (mtpa) alumina...
A fire broke out in the cooling tower at Alcoa's Kwinana alumina refinery today causing up to $1 million damage. There were reports of an explosion and a plume of black smoke flowed from the refinery. Department of Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Allen Gale confirmed the blaze started a short...
The Banja Luka Stock Exchange on Monday suspended trading in the heavily indebted alumina plant Birac ad Zvornik, which is subject to bankruptcy proceedings, for 11 days, it said on its website. The government of Bosnia's autonomous Serb Republic ordered the tax authority at the weekend to launch...
The FOB price for Australian alumina has been dragged down by falling LME aluminum prices to USD 322/mt, down USD 6/mt or 1.83% from before the Chinese Qingming holiday. LME aluminum prices have dropped to USD 1,880/mt from USD 2,174/mt on February 25, 2013, a decrease of nearly 13.52%. Alumina...
On Thursday, the top TSX mover was Orbite Aluminae Inc. The stock lost 9.2% and was trading at $0.99 on volume of 3.6 million. On April 3, the alumina producer filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada. The...
Bosnia's Serb Republic government ordered the tax authority on Saturday to launch bankruptcy procedures at the region's indebted alumina plant, majority-owned by troubled Lithuanian lender Ukio Bankas . The decision follows a police investigation earlier this week into alleged tax evasion and...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., the Montreal- based company seeking to extract alumina and rare-earth metals without toxic residue, fell to the lowest in more than two years as equipment delays threaten production goals. Orbite dropped 22 percent to C$1.07 at 10:56 a.m. in Toronto, the lowest intraday price...
Montreal-based Orbite Aluminae Inc., developing an alumina project in Quebec’s Gaspé region, said on Wednesday that it is filing a short-form prospectus with provincial regulators to provide future financial flexibility in funding its diverse projects over the next 25 months. It plans to raise...
UC RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium producer, announces the next step in Aughinish alumina refinery's modernisation programme, which will include the shift of steam production from heavy oil to gas as its main energy source. The change of oil-fired boilers to gas-powered steam generators will...
Orbite owns and operates a facility in Cap-Chat, Québec, that was originally operated as a pilot plant up to and until March 2012. The 2,600 m2 pilot plant has since been converted into a full-scale 5,903 m2 high-purity production plant, designed to produce alumina at a purity level of 99.99%...
Alumina Limited lost 0.43% at $4.59 after trading over 602,000 ADRs. It is a leading Australian company listed on the ASX and the NYSE, and invests world-wide in bauxite mining, alumina refining and selected aluminium smelting operations through its 40% ownership of Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals,...
Global Alumina Corporation, a corporation participating in a joint venture to develop an alumina refinery, mine and associated infrastructure in the bauxite-rich region of the Republic of Guinea (the "Project"), announced its financial and operating results for the year ended December 31, 2012. For...
Orbite Aluminae Inc.is pleased to announce that the first commercial samples of high-purity alumina produced at its HPA plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec, and having a minimum purity of 4N (99.99%), began shipping this week to several customers in Europe, Asia and North America. Orbite has already received...
Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the nation’s biggest producer, reported a wider second-half loss because of falling prices and higher costs for alumina, which is used to produce the lightweight metal. The net loss was 4.98 billion yuan ($801 million) in the six months ended Dec. 31, from a loss of...
India's Nalco Monday confirmed it plans to invest in a 1 million mt/year alumina refinery in the state of Gujarat that is scheduled for completion in 2017. The project was officially announced last August by then Nalco chairman and managing director B.L. Bagra at the company's AGM. Bagra did not...
According to Shandong Nanshan Aluminum’s 2012 annual report, the company reported RMB 14.87 billion in operating revenues in 2012, up 11.57% YoY. However, its profits declined 28.72% YoY to RMB 985 million and net profits attributable to its parent company also dropped 32.39% YoY to RMB 691...
Global Alumina Corporation announced today a further update on its efforts to raise capital in order to, among other things, complete the previously-announced proposed acquisition from The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Pty Limited of its one-third interest in the Guinea Alumina joint venture...
