Alcoa Corporation has set the price for a USD 2.6 billion senior notes offering to help finance the cash consideration for its proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina, and aluminium assets . Along with the cash on hand, this debt is expected to provide permanent funding for the...
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...
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Orbite Aluminae, a leading provider of clean technology and developer of alumina projects, today announced it recently received a notice of allowance for two patent applications in Russia and in China for its alumina extraction technology. This unique process is for extracting aluminum from...
BHP Billiton came out with its annual report recently showing that the record annual production at the Alumar refinery, Brazil, contributed to a 4% increase in total alumina production in FY2012. Metal production was lower as potline capacity at Hillside in South Africa was temporarily curtailed...
Orbite Aluminae today announced that, leveraging its patented processes for high-purity and smelter-grade alumina production, the Company has developed a purification technology to purify silica based on its hydrochloric acid leaching process. This development allows the Company to purify silica to...
Euro Pacific Canada analyst Luisa Moreno has initiated coverage on Orbite Aluminae Inc. which has developed a unique technology to produce alumina from clays, with a "buy" rating, the Globe & Mail reported. She believes the company will be able to start up a full-scale smelter-grade alumina plant...
In a major setback toVedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the Odisha Government on Tuesday expressed its inability to immediately supply bauxite to Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) after the company sought permission to shut down its refinery at Lanjigarh due to scarcity of raw material. After attending...
Orbite Aluminae today announced that it has prepared a series of detailed white papers covering the Company's technology and markets as well as competitive advantages. "Orbite is pleased to share these in-depth white papers with our investors, customers, and industry colleagues, as they lay the...
The government will make a purchase offer for Bakonyi Power Plant, which supplies troubled alumina maker MAL, the government spokesman’s office said on Wednesday. The government decided to make the offer after discussing the situation of MAL and the question of bills it owes Bakonyi Power Plant,...
Ormet Corp. plans to lay off 200 people at its alumina plant in Ascension Parish because of reduced demand caused by rising power rates in Ohio. The Advocate reports Ormet issued 60-day federal layoff notices last Tuesday for the Burnside plant, which produces the primary raw material used in...
Hundreds of tribals of Kashipur block in Odisha’s Rayagada district blocked the road leading to the mines of Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) on Friday, demanding fulfillment of their demands. The tribals, who blocked the road near Andrakancho under Baphlimali Surakhya Samiti (BSS), vowed...
If you go back to the 1960s in Gladstone the biggest employer was the Meatworks and it was a much different place to now. When the meatworks closed down, the entire complexion of the town changed dramatically with a new player in town, Kaiser Engineers and Constuctors who came to build the...
After Vedanta Aluminium Limited’s Lanjigarh alumina plant closure notice to the State Government, the save-Vedanta movement seems to be escalating further with hundreds of local people working at the alumina refinery meeting Kalahandi MP Bhakta Charan Das on Saturday and pleading for saving the...
Orbite Aluminae, the company that supplies clean technology and alternative techniques for the alumina manufacturing industry, is set to become the first manufacturer in North America to produce extremely high quality alumina of 5N or 99.999% purity. Orbite is planning to commence production of the...
Bosai will be the only company that owned three foreign bauxite private enterprises. It is learned that this group will invest in Indonesia to build alumina plant after the acquisition of Guyana and Ghana bauxite, which will also gain at least 0.1 billion tons of bauxite mining area. Bosai Minerals...
The global demand for high-quality aluminium trioxide or high-quality alumina (HPA) is expected to soar by a yearly compounded growth rate of 52% over three years to 2015, a report said on Thursday. HPA project developer Orbite Aluminae had commissioned consulting firm Secor to undertake a study to...
H.I.G. Europe (“H.I.G.”) today announced the closing of its acquisition of the Specialty Alumina business of listed global mining firm Rio Tinto Group. With effect from 1 August 2012, the new group will be renamed ALTEO. With turnover of nearly €300 million, ALTEO is the leading global integrated...
Tribals in Rayagada's Kashipur block have prepared an action plan that they will submit to Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL) and the district administration for development of villages affected by the factory. This plan will be the precondition to mining in their area. The action plan was...
U.S. aluminum producer Ormet Corp said it was cutting back operations at its Burnside alumina refinery in Louisiana, due to high power costs and low global prices that have also forced it to shutter part of its aluminium production. A small producer on the global scale, Ormet joins industry...
Orbite Aluminae, a leading provider of clean technology and developer of breakthrough alternative solutions for the alumina production industry, today announced that the Company will begin trading on the OTCQX International. Effective Monday, September 10, 2012, Orbite will trade on the OTCQX®...
