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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The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has kept in abeyance its permission to Vedanta Aluminium for conduct of public hearing on the company's plan to expand the capacity of Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Kalahandi district from one million tonne to six million tonne after protests from...
Aluminum Corp. of China Zhongzhou Branch has produced more than 160 thousand tons of alumina in March, while 145.0 thousand tons of industrial alumina and 17.6 thousand tons of chemical alumina. It is learned that industrial alumina was produced by the 2nd alumina factory of the Branch, adopted...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that recently completed assays of clay samples from the Grande-Vallee Marin Sector support the correlation between and association of potentially high-value rare earth elements ("REE") and rare metal elements ("RM") with alumina. These samples were taken...
A British court adjourned a case involving metals magnate Victor Dahdaleh and former Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) chief executive Bruce Hall, who appeared on Monday to face corruption charges linked to the supply of alumina to Bahrain. Jordan-born Dahdaleh, a former donor to Britain's Labour party and...
The Utkal Alumina project, a 1.5 million tonne per annum (mtpa) alumina refinery plant being set up by AV Birla owned Hindalco Industries at Kashipur in south Odisha's Rayagada district, is set to go into production by December this year. “Around 85 per cent of the construction work for the Rs...
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) will gain a fully-franked dividend of $US26 million from its interest in the Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals joint venture. Alumina holds a 40 per cent interest in the venture, with the remaining 60 per cent interest held by Alcoa (ASX:AAI). Alcoa Incorporated (NYSE:AA),...
Alcoa says two of its alumina refineries in Western Australia have achieved record production and remain among its lowest-cost plants globally. Alcoa, which is closing and curtailing smelter capacity across its global operations in response to weak market conditions, has singled out Wagerup and...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. ("Orbite" or the "Company") (TSX:ORT) confirms its choice for hydrochloric acid ("HCl") recovery technology for its smelter grade alumina ("SGA") plant operations based on data from SMS Siemag and ThyssenKrupp supporting the hydrothermal process efficiency and recovery rates....
BELIEVE it or not, there's a silver (actually, aluminium) lining to Wall Street's 1.5 per cent nervy turn overnight and it comes from this year's second worst-performing main metal (behind only nickel). Kicking off the US quarterly earnings season, Pittsburgh plodder Alcoa reported earnings of...
Alumina Ltd : * Going forward, Alcoa world Alumina & chemicals will reduce annual Alumina production capacity in atlantic region by around 4% * Awac's production of Alumina for the first quarter was 4 million tonnes * Awac's results for Q1 continued to be impacted by lower aluminium and Alumina...
According to China Customs, China imported 440,000 mt of alumina in March, up 230.83% YoY. Total imports from January to March were 1.16 million mt, up 65.8% YoY. There are two reasons behind growing alumina imports in 1Q 2012. First, Western Australian alumina prices remained weak, and FOB prices...
Orbite Aluminae Inc., the Quebec junior miner that struck a preliminary collaboration deal with Russian aluminum giant United Co. Rusal, says a research report casting doubt on the economics of its alumina-making processes is error-riddled and that the analyst who wrote it is “mixed up.” “This...
Rio Tinto has received a binding offer for its specialty aluminas business from H.I.G. Aperiod of exclusivity has been agreed to with H.I.G. and Rio Tinto will respond to the binding offer following consultation with the relevant European works councils. The terms of the binding offer are...
Alcoa Inc (AA.N), the U.S. aluminum giant, plans to cut alumina production in the Atlantic region by 4 percent, becoming the first producer to take measures aimed at reducing oversupply that has lowered prices to around $300 per tonne. The move follows a slump in prices of alumina, an intermediate...
The alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) at Lanjigarh, Orissa has been conferred with RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Award 2012. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) started the Occupational Health and Safety Awards scheme in 1956, making it the largest and...
The government of Ukraine has seized the only alumina plant in the country from nominal owner Rusal the world's biggest aluminum producer but while Rusal is fighting to regain control of the smelter, the only impact this could have on the company's rivals is negative. The Zaporozhye Alumina and...
Employees at UC RUSAL's Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea have gone on strike, paralysing operations there, a union member and two other employees told Reuters, but the company said production losses would be "insignificant". Kabinet Barry, a spokesman for the worker's union, said their demands...
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