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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Cape Alumina could have a significant transaction to reveal with the company that granted a trading halt this morning by the ASX. Cape Alumina said the halt was required pending 'negotiations for a number of significant transactions which are currently underway between the company and a third...
Guinea will maintain its 4.8 percent growth forecast for 2012, 0.9 percent higher than the previous year, despite a sharp fall in gold, diamond and alumina production, a report by the finance ministry showed on Tuesday. The mineral-rich West African nation, which relies on mining for about 80...
Operators have again delayed the opening of the Tan Rai alumina plant in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong for an undetermined period of time. Before this latest delay for the country’s first-ever alumina plant, the facility was supposed to go into operation on November 1. “The alumina...
Orbite Aluminae on Tuesday said it had entered into an agreement with US chemicals consultant M&K for the engineering and construction of a separation plant capable of producing gallium oxide at a purity of 4N (99.99%) and scandium oxide at a purity of 2N or greater (99%+) from the acid recovery...
Operations at Rio Tinto's alumina facilities at Gove in the Northern Territory could be temporarily suspended. The ABC understands the mine operator, Pacific Aluminium, called a meeting with workers today to announce it is conducting a strategic review into the bauxite mine and refinery. The...
Rio Tinto Alcan's Yarwun refinery expansion project opens More than 600 employees, Gladstone community representatives and local Indigenous leaders joined with Rio Tinto Alcan and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman today to launch the $2.5 billion Yarwun alumina refinery expansion in Gladstone....
Vedanta Resources VED.LN -1.66% PLC has resumed operations at its alumina refinery in the eastern Indian state of Orissa where production was suspended for more than a week due to a shortage of bauxite, a raw material. "We have started operations at the plant on Monday after we received bauxite...
Operations at Rio Tinto's alumina facilities at Gove in the Northern Territory could be temporarily suspended. The ABC understands the mine operator, Pacific Aluminium, called a meeting with workers today to announce it is conducting a strategic review into the bauxite mine and refinery. The...
The current state of Australia's natural gas markets is squeezing out investment opportunities for the Australian alumina refining industry - an industry that includes some of the country's largest users of natural gas. Responding to the release of the National Institute of Economic and Industry...
According to SMM's survey, alumina prices at port were between RMB 2,650-2,670/mt despite rising imported alumina prices in September. This is because increasing supply of alumina at port has curbed the big increase in prices. Traders told SMM that imported alumina at Lianyungang port were quoted...
Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese said "We have delivered another strong set of production results in the third quarter, including record quarterly Pilbara iron ore production. Copper, bauxite, alumina, and titanium dioxide production were all higher than in the same quarter of 2011. "As we...
China’s imports of alumina climbed in September to the highest in almost three years, to meet the country’s expanding aluminium smelting capacity. Inbound shipments of alumina stood at 480,000 tonnes last month, the highest monthly volume since January 2010, according to preliminary customs data...
Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) confirmed jobs will be cut at its plant in Gladstone. Low global prices and the high Australian dollar have been blamed for the job losses at the 40 year old refinery. In a statement announcing the cuts, QAL chairman Armando Torres took a swipe at 'new taxes' for...
Reuters reported that China's aluminium smelters are expected to step up imports of spot alumina next year to skirt more expensive term deals. Industry sources said in a move that could boost spot prices of the raw material in Asia. Chinese smelters have received term alumina offers for 2013 at...
More than 100 former construction workers will reunite this weekend at Gladstone in central Queensland, to celebrate 45 years since the construction of the world's largest alumina refinery. It took three years and thousands of workers to build Queensland Alumina Limited's (QAL) refinery in...
Melbourne-based Alumina Ltd has secured an agreement limiting its exposure to Alcoa's $US85 million ($83m) cash settlement of a US civil bribery and fraud lawsuit from state-controlled Aluminium Bahrain (Alba). The Alcoa settlement was without admitting any liability and includes a long-term...
The Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL), which will soon close down its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, has also decided to discontinue operation of its 75 mw captive power plant there. The VAL on Wednesday informed this to the local executive engineer of the power distribution company,...
Alumina received no dividends from its joint venture partner Alcoa in the three months to September after the US company posted a third quarter loss of $US143 million ($A140.96 million). Melbourne-based Alumina's only earning asset is its 40 per cent stake in Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals...
