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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Odisha government has called Vedanta Aluminium for a meeting tomorrow on supply of bauxite to the company's closed alumina refinery in the state amidst several representations by local people to reopen the plant. The meeting has been called by a high-level ministerial committee, which was set up...
India's state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) has sold 30,000 tonnes of alumina at about $357 a tonne free on board, company sources said on Saturday. Alumina will be shipped next month to a buyer in Hong Kong. NALCO, whose tenders serve as an international benchmark, last sold the same...
Shares in Alumina have hit their highest level in nearly 12 months after a large Chinese investor took a $452 million stake in the under pressure aluminium producer. CITIC will buy more than 366 million new Alumina shares, which will equate to just over 13 per cent of Alumina's total share base,...
The outback town of Nhulunbuy is celebrating after global miner Rio Tinto Ltd promised to keep open its loss-making alumina refinery. Rio subsidiary Pacific Aluminium says it will keep open the giant Gove refinery, following a deal with the Northern Territory government to convert the diesel-fed...
Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) said it will keep a loss making alumina refinery in Australia's remote Northern Territory open as it finalizes a deal with the local government to supply cheaper natural gas to the operation for the next decade. Rio Tinto had been due to decide on the future of the Gove refinery...
Australia’s Northern Territory government committed to supply gas to Rio Tinto Group’s Gove alumina refinery after the world’s second-biggest mining company said it may shut the plant due to high fuel oil costs. “The Northern Territory government has now guaranteed a gas supply for the Gove...
Wagerup refinery brought some extra shine to Alcoa on Australia’s 50th anniversary celebrations last week. The refinery has produced 50 million tonnes of alumina since it opened along with the Willowdale bauxite mine on April 11, 1984. This is equivalent to the alumi-nium components in more than...
The Northern Territory cabinet to decide on Monday whether the government should release gas to Rio Tinto Ltd in a bid to save an outback town. In a statement from London on Thursday, NT Chief Minister Terry Mills said he was continuing negotiations with Rio Tinto managing director Sam Walsh as he...
Guinea expects production at aluminium producer Rusal's Fria refinery to restart "within months", thanks to conditions set as part of a deal signed with the Russian group late last year, a senior official said. The 630,000 tonne per year plant has been shut since last April following a labour...
Rio Tinto's loss-making aluminium refinery in Arnhem Land should be shuttered, according to an internal review, with the expected loss of up to 1500 jobs and devastating effects on the regional economy. An investment review committee recommended Rio immediately move to mothball the refinery on the...
In the beginning of Feb.,Australian alumina prices are on the increase. The price was quoted at 346$ per metric ton now, almost 4% prior to the ending of Jan.It is forcasted that the increase of Australian alumina price will great give rise to China’s imported alumina average price, which is...
Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd (Chalco) confirms lower alumina production by 1.7 million tons following Indonesian bauxite export ban. “As the downturn of the aluminum market continued, the prices of aluminum decreased by 7% as compared with the corresponding period of the preceeding uear. The...
An internal review has recommended Rio Tinto close down its aluminium refinery in the Northern Territory over the next six to 12 months. The Australian reports an investment review committee has recommended Rio immediately mothball the refinery near Gove, which will result in the loss of around...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. ("Orbite") and Veolia Environmental Services ("Veolia") signed an exclusive worldwide collaborative agreement for the treatment and recycling of red mud generated by industrial alumina production using the Bayer process. The terms of the partnership include the construction of...
MINING giant Rio Tinto has extended its deadline for the Northern Territory government to find a supply of gas to power the company's loss-making aluminium refinery in Arnhem Land, the NT's largest private enterprise. Chief Minister Terry Mills will now make a last-minute dash to Europe in a bid to...
Last-ditch efforts are underway to persuade Rio Tinto to maintain production at its Gove alumina refinery in Australia after talks with potential gas suppliers to reduce costs ended without a resolution. Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific Aluminium has said if it can't run the 2.5 million tonnes-per-year...
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Clarendon Alumina Production Limited's (CAP) foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at 'B-'. Fitch has also affirmed CAP's USD200 million 8.5% unsecured notes due November 2021 at 'B-/RR4'. The notes continue to be supported by an explicit unconditional...
The loss-making Gove peninsula aluminium refinery and bauxite mine in Nhulunbuy, in the Northern Territory’s Arnhem Land, will have its fate decided today. Around 800 people staged a rally to display their concern at the possible closure of the plant, operated by Rio Tinto subsidiary Pacific...
