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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Alumina (NYSE:AWC) is one of today's worst performing low-priced stocks, down 6.7% to $2.92 on 1.2x average daily volume. Thus far today, Alumina has traded 412,000 shares, vs. average volume of 337,000 shares per day. The stock has underperformed the Dow (-6.7% to the Dow's -0.2%) and...
In any other town the word "bauxite" doesn't mean much. In Gladstone, pretty much everyone knows that bauxite is the red stuff that feeds the region's alumina refineries. Another term that has become synonymous with the Gladstone Region is Yarwun 2, the $2.4 billion expansion of Rio Tinto Alcan's...
Alumina Limited is reviewing a $US45 million pre-tax settlement charge booked by its joint venture partner Alcoa in relation to a Bahrain bribery case. The Australian-listed company, commenting today after Alcoa's quarterly earnings release, said that it was evaluating the basis for the $US45m...
More than three years on and a $4.3 billion project to build a bauxite mining and alumina refinery in Cameroon is still waiting for a mining permit, a company executive said on Friday. India's Hindalco, Dubai Aluminium Company (Dubal) and Hydromine Inc announced plans for their Cameroon Alumina Ltd...
UC RUSAL the world's largest aluminium producer, announces the development and realization of the technology of nepheline powder production from nepheline mud, which is expected to boost the consumption of recycled waste by several multiples of the current level. The expected annual economic...
Perth based bauxite explorer and developer Bauxite Resources Ltd is pleased to confirm the appointment of bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting industry leader Mr Bill Moss who will take up the role of General Manager with Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture on 2 October 2012. Mr. Moss...
RIO Tinto has completed construction on the $2.4 billion expansion of its Yarwun alumina refinery and has begun the process of ramping up to full production next year. "The Yarwun expansion project will more than double production at the refinery to 3.4 million tonnes of alumina per year, making...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is proud to announce it produced its first commercial samples of high-purity alumina (HPA) at purity levels of 99.999% (5N). This achievement follows the production of 99.99% (4N) purity HPA that that the Company previously achieved in 2011 while the market is transitioning to...
Owing to oversupply of alumina, Chinalco has decided to reduce alumina capacity of 1700 thousand tons, together with the key alumina enterprises of NanShan Group, Shandong Chiping Xinfa Group, Binzhou High and New Aluminum Power Co., Ltd and Bosai Group to appeal alumina enterprises conducted 10%...
Global Alumina Corporation announced today that its board of directors have determined the annual general meeting of the Company's shareholders will take place on September 6, 2012. The record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive notice of and vote at the annual general...
Orbite Aluminae's president and CEO describe plans to conquer part of the high purity and smelter grade alumina industries. Orbite has started construction on an expanded facility where it expects to start producing 1,000 tonnes a year of high purity alumina (HPA), along with rare earths, starting...
This report has firstly introduced Activated Alumina definition classification industry chain etc relation information. Then introduced Activated Alumina technology and manufacturing process. And then Summary statistics of Global and China major Activated Alumina 2009-2016 Activated Alumina...
Orbite Aluminae, Inc. C3Wednesday struck a tentative deal with India's Nalco that will see the gold and precious metals company test its technology on ore and red mud residue. Nalco, or National Aluminium Company Limited, was established in 1981 as a public sector enterprise of the government of...
Bio-Clean International, Inc. announced that the Company has entered into a Joint Venture agreement with Kyrgyz Alumina Inc., a Nevada Corporation. Under this agreement, the two corporations will form a new limited liability corporation which will seek to acquire mining interests, ore and mineral...
Two residents told federal officials at a public hearing Tuesday night they may intervene if a liquefied natural gas export terminal gets green-lighted for a permit. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had a public hearing to gather comments and answer questions about a project planned by...
Using a new process they describe as "reverse fossilization," scientists at Kyoto University's WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have succeeded in creating custom designed porous substances capable of low cost, high efficiency separation. The process takes place in the...
UBS AG downgraded BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) and Rio Tinto Ltd. (RIO)’s earnings estimates by 4 percent due to Australia’s mining and carbon taxes. BHP will pay $715 million in mining tax and A$300 million ($302 million) in carbon tax in the year ending June 30, 2013, UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock said in...
The Montreal company said its technology will ultimately revolutionized the way that alumina is produced, be it high-purity or smelter grade. Orbite Aluminae Inc. said it has begun construction of a high purity alumina plant in the Gaspe region of Quebec. The company said in a press release that...
