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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Canberra has countered calls for a drastic intervention in the domestic gas market to guarantee energy supplies to a Rio Tinto aluminium refinery amid estimates it could cost $2 billion to rescue the Northern Territory facility. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson moved against the proposals by...
Shares in Australian company Alumina have risen after aluminium giant and joint venture partner Alcoa beat sales expectations and forecast a rise in demand in 2013. Alcoa kicked off the US earnings season posting net income of $US242 million ($231.5m), compared to a $US193m net loss from the same...
India's state-run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) has finalised a long-term export contract for 270,000 tonnes of alumina for deliveries in 2013 at 16.53 percent of the LME aluminium price on a free-on-board (FOB) basis, company sources said on Monday. The Switzerland-based buyer, whose name was...
The fight to save nearly 1600 Rio Tinto aluminium jobs in the Northern Territory is dangerously close to being lost after the government admitted negotiations had stalled. Mining giant Rio Tinto's subsidiary Pacific Aluminium said on Monday that it was considering shutting its loss-making Gove...
China Hongqiao Group Limited (01378) announced to build a joint venture with Winning Investment, PT. Cita and PT. Danpac in Indonesia, held 60%, 10%, 25% and 5% of share respectively. The JV’s issued capital was 94bn IDR ( 75,000 thousand HKD). This joint venture will establish and manage alumina...
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) in collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP), recognize Orbite Aluminae Inc., based in Montreal, Quebec, as national winner of the 2012 Regional Awards for New Technology. Orbite Aluminae...
Bauxite mining company PT Cita Mineral Investindo Tbk (CITA) established a joint venture company with companies from China and Hong Kong to develop an alumina smelter in West Kalimantan. Yusak Lumba Pardede, Corporate Secretary of Cita Mineral, said the smelter will have capacity of two tons per...
Police authorities are beefing up their presence at Anrak alumina plant area to withstand protests scheduled to be held by Congress party activists at the site. Despite prohibitory orders being clamped in the plant area by police, Narsipatnam Congress MLA Bolem Muthyala Papa has decided to take out...
Vinacomin is officially organizing the business plan in 2013 between internal units. Expected general economic situation for 2013 is still difficult. So TKV offer flexible plan. Accordingly, for the commodities of coal, TKV has given 2 options. Consumption in 2013 is 43 million tons, or 41.5...
The government of Guinea on Friday cleared a project by state-owned China Power Investment Corp to invest nearly $6 billion in an alumina refinery in Boffa, some 120 km (75 miles) west of the capital, a statement from the government said. The project for the 4 million tonne per year refinery, which...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. has completed the previously announced brokered private placement of units for an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 and that the private placement was again oversubscribed. Each unit was priced at $5,000 and was comprised of 1,156 class "A" shares issued on a flow-through basis at...
The country’s largest aluminium maker Vedanta Aluminium is unlikely to start operations at its Lanjigarh unit in the near future as it is yet to secure bauxite supply to run the plant. “It is very difficult to give a timeline. Unless we get secured source of supply of raw material, we will not be...
Earlier this month, Vedanta Group was forced to shut its one million tonnes per annum alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha’s Kalahandi district due to unavailability of bauxite, 15 years after state-owned Orissa Mining Corporation signed over its rights to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills to...
Indian state-run National Aluminium Co (NALCO) has issued an LME-linked one-year tender for export of 270,000 tonnes of alumina for delivery in 2013, company sources said on Thursday. The last date for submission of bids is Jan 4. The deliveries would be made in batches between January and December...
With at least seven firms starting construction of mineral smelting plants in Indonesia this year, the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry is pressing on with its plan to completely ban the export of unprocessed minerals in 2014 as stipulated in the 2009 Mining Law, despite a challenge by...
India's largest aluminium maker, is considering layoffs within two months at its alumina refinery in Odisha as hopes of an immediate revival of the plant fade, the president of the company said. VAL, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources, has about 550 employees. It closed down the...
Orbite Aluminae of Montreal has begun commissioning its first high purity alumina (HPA) plant, located in Cap-Chat. Construction is mostly complete, plant pre-operating tests are progressing and many sections of the plant are being commissioned. Commercial production should be attained at the...
Mining company PT Aneka Tambang, known as Antam, has given the Japanese Sumitomo Corporation the task of working on the development of coal-fired power plants, which forms part of the company’s modernization work on its ferronickel factory in Pomalaa, Southeast Sulawesi. Antam is also in the...
