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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Even after 20 years and investments of over Rs 5,000 crore, the 1.5-million-tonne alumina refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL), a subsidiary of the Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco, is yet to see the light of the day. As the company gears up to give a final push to complete the...
The company’s bid to continue the refinery operation by sourcing bauxite from other states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Chhatishgarh, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh was also thwarted by various logistic, regulatory and procedural issues. Even as Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has shut down its Lanjigarh...
Some 3-5 foreign investors are now studying to invest in alumina business in Indonesia with total investment expected to reach US$10 billion, equivalent Rp96 trillion, Investor Daily reported this morning. Panggah Susanto, general director of manufacture-based industry at the Industry Ministry,...
Chief Minister Terry Mills says a deal that could ensure the future of the Gove Alumina Refinery in the Northern Territory's Gulf country is expected tomorrow. The Government hopes converting the struggling refinery from expensive diesel fuel to natural gas will allow it to remain operational. It...
The price of alumina is expected to crest and stabilise at about $330/t by the end of the year, buoyed by strong demand from the construction and high-technology sectors, Quebec project developer Orbite Aluminae CEO Richard Boudreault believes. The alumina market is expected to expand by about 6% a...
Aluminium smelters in China, the world's top producer and consumer of the metal, have agreed on higher ratios of metal prices next year to value purchases of the raw material alumina, spurred by worries of tighter supply at home. Deals for 2013 alumina imports were set at about 16.1 to 16.3 percent...
Elemental mercury—emitted as vapour from some aluminium refineries operating the Bayer process—is recognised by many international governments as a health risk and research worldwide is focused on solutions for mercury adsorption and safe disposal. Research published in Chemical Engineering,...
Eight years ago, Kada Majhi, a tribal woman of Kinari, a village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha, eked out a living with paltry wages as a daily labourer. When Vedanta Aluminium started constructing a one-million-tonne-per-annum aluminium refinery at Lanjigarh, she, along with her husband and...
The Northern Territory Government hopes a decision will be made this week on a plan to help save a Rio Tinto alumina refinery on the Gove peninsula in remote north-east Arnhem Land. The Territory's Chief Minister says any closure of the refinery could devastate the nearby mining town of Nhulunbuy,...
If the aim of the latest alumina symposium in India organized by the International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminum Society was to provide a platform for the industry to highlight technological developments, new products and their market potential, it was not far off the mark. Company representatives...
Even as Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) today started the process of shutting down its Lanjigarh aluminium refinery, the Odisha government claimed the closure notice given by the company was “not in the proper format” as stipulated by the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act. “We have not received...
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, announced today that Dubai Aluminium Company Limited ("DUBAL") and MCD Industry Holding Company LLC...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of London-based Vedanta Resources, will shut its one-million-tonne (mt) alumina refinery from tomorrow. The company had issued a three-month advance notice in September to close the refinery from Wednesday, as it had no bauxite stock to run the plant beyond the...
Aluminium industry in the world is set to undergo a revolution. The industry can now hope for much cheaper and environment friendly technology. Orbite Aluminae Incorporated (OLI), a private company in Canada, has developed a new process of alumina production. Instead of using bauxite, the...
Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., the country’s biggest producer, is seeking to tap bauxite resources and build processing plants abroad after Indonesia, the largest supplier to China, curbed exports. The company plans to build an alumina facility with a capacity of 1 million metric tons a year in...
Vednata Aluminium Ltd (VAL), which had given a three-month advance notice to the Odisha government for closure of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery from December 5 citing unavailability of bauxite, may not relent on its decision as there is still no solution to the raw material problems. Though the...
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell, says he is confident that the Alpart bauxite and alumina plant at Nain, St Elizabeth, will re-open soon, as discussions with U C Rusal, the majority share-holders and operators of the plant, are going well. Addressing a Rural...
Tension prevailed at the Anrak alumina refinery plant area here on Wednesday after police authorities arrested a group of agitating farmers for trying to prevent lorries carrying raw materials from entering the plant. The police booked former Praja Rajyam party (PRP) leader Ruttala Errapatrudu, who...
