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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Rio Tinto said on Wednesday that it was producing alumina in Australia's Queensland state at lower rates following heavy rains and flooding caused by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald. Rio said production was temporarily suspended at its Yarwun alumina refinery due to record rainfall around the Gladstone...
Platts Australian alumina assessment at $338/mt FOB was unchanged from Friday despite news of production cuts in Queensland, Australia due to storms and flooding. Reports of the run cuts came during the Asian business day, but market participants mostly said they planned to wait and see what impact...
Alumina traders are struggling to find any available cargoes in the first quarter of 2013, as many producers sold forward much of their first-quarter material and will not be responding to enquiries until late March, when they will have material available for the second quarter. Metal Bulletin’s...
People in the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy are planning a rally on Wednesday to show resources giant Rio Tinto Ltd, that "they matter". With Rio's self-imposed deadline of January 31 for a report on the viability of their Gove alumina operations, people in the satellite town of...
National Aluminium Company ( Nalco), which has an exportable alumina surplus of nearly one million tonne per annum, stands to gain Rs 250 crore if it agrees to sell the intermediate product to its competitor - Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL). The business deal, though apparently lucrative, is not...
The Northern Territory outback town of Nhulunbuy is facing a devastating blow, as a government bid to save an alumina refinery may be too little too late. Nhulunbuy, a satellite town of the Gove alumina refinery and bauxite mine, has been waiting anxiously for news of whether mining giant Rio Tinto...
The Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) may miss its March-end deadline to start production at its plant as tribals have set development of the area as a precondition to allow bauxite mining in the area. Many official criteria also need to be fulfilled. The UAIL, a subsidiary of Kumar...
On 22nd Jan, Orbite Alumina announced that it successfully produced its first tonne of high-purity alumina (HPA) during the last week of December 2012 and early January 2013 as part of the initial commissioning and testing activities at its commercial-scale HPA production plant in Cap-Chat, Quebec....
Orbite Aluminae Inc. shares rose more than six per cent in heavy trading Tuesday on news that the Quebec company has produced its first tonne of high-purity alumina. The stock reached $2.82 in midday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, up from the previous close of $2.65, with more than 2...
Subject to closing of the planned Sapa joint venture between Hydro and Orkla, Executive Vice President of Extruded Products, Hans-Joachim Kock, has been appointed Head of Finance in Hydro's Bauxite & Alumina business area after Eivind Kallevik, who has recently been appointed CFO in Hydro. The...
Hindalco Industries, the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group, today said it has finalised arrangement for acquiring alumina refinery and bauxite mines in Brazil from its wholly-owned subsidiary Novelis as part of corporate reorganisation plan. "Hindalco Industries has finalised its...
Alumina Limited was downgraded by Goldman Sachs from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note issued on Thursday. Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. Analysts at Credit Suisse upgraded shares of Alumina Limited from a “neutral” rating...
Non-ferrous metals producer Hindalco Industries plans to start its 1.5 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery in Odisha by the end of March 2013, a company official said on Wednesday. The plant, in Odisha's Rayagada district, was scheduled to start operations in January, but has been...
Rio Tinto says it is too expensive to keep using heavy fuel oil as a power source and has threatened to shut its alumina refinery on the Gove peninsula, 600km east of Darwin. Rio's subsidiary Pacific Aluminium wants taxpayers to provide a $900 million gas pipeline over 600km from Katherine to Gove....
After its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh was shut due to lack of bauxite, now operations at Vedanta’s aluminium smelter in Odisha have been hit by shortage of alumina. Time and again, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has asked National Aluminium Company Limited ( Nalco), which has surplus alumina, to...
The Government and representatives of aluminum giant UC Rusal are to hold talks today, as the parties seek to sign off on an arrangement for alternative energy solutions for the reopening of the Alpart and Kirkvine alumina plants. UC Rusal closed Alpart and Kirkvine in 2009, amid the global...
China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) suggested to build an annual production of 4,000 thousand tons alumina refinery in Boffa has obtained permission from Guinea Government. This project was invested about 6 billion dollars totally, including a deepwater port and a power station. The project...
Alumina Limited was upgraded by equities research analysts at Credit Suisse from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday. A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on AWC. Analysts at JPMorgan Chase upgraded shares of Alumina...
