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,a company whose shares are moving quickly, is trading 6.6% higher to $6.13. The Dow is up 0.5% to 11,864 and the S&P is currently up 0.8% to 1,248. In the past 52 weeks, shares of Alumina have traded between a low of $5.15 and a high of $11.46 and are now at $6.13, which is 19% above that...
Alcoa is yet to hear from the WA Government whether it has been granted a five-year approvals relief for the much-hyped $2.2 billion expansion of its Wagerup alumina refinery south of Perth. The original five-year environmental approval expired last month and even though Alcoa began applying for an...
The Russian owner of Aughinish Alumina is in talks with the Government about boosting production at the Shannon Estuary plant which is the Republic’s biggest manufacturing site. Rusal, the Russian group controlled by oligarch Mr Oleg Deripaska which owns the facility wants to grow production at the...
Orbite brilliantly completes its 2011 Drilling Program,signalling another Step Towards commercialization of its products. Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce the very successful completion of its 2011 drilling campaign on its aluminous clay deposit located 23 kilometres south of...
If and when Rio Tinto manages to sell all of the 13 assets it put up for sale on October 17, it will have divested itself of around 2 million tpy of primary aluminium production capacity,and given itself a substantially longer position in alumina than in aluminium. “Being long in bauxite and...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of an information and consultation centre in Grande-Vallee.The facility aims at keeping stakeholders and the general public in the Gaspe region updated on its project to develop its aluminous clay deposits and produce both high purity and...
A Perth-based exploration company says Australian scientists have verified the value of its resources in Western Australia's wheatbelt. Australian Minerals and Mining Group owns tenements of kaolin rock near Meckering and Hyden. Kaolin is traditionally used to manufacture paper and clay but Chinese...
THE future of the $1.2 billion (€873m) alumina refinery at Aughinish Alumina has been secured until 2030 at least, with the company commissioning a 195-acre development that has the capacity to hold over 17 million tonnes of bauxite residue or "red mud". The owners of Europe’s largest alumina...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that Mr. Richard Boudreault, CEO of Orbite, was invited to make a presentation at the 2011 Industrial Minerals conference on October 18 in Toronto.This conference brings together leaders from across North America that will discuss new developments in the...
Indian state-run National Aluminium Company has issued a LME-linked tender for export of 240,000 tonnes of alumina in 2012, a senior company official said on Tuesday. The last date for submission of bids is Nov. 8. The deliveries would be made in batches between January and December next year,...
The region's railway company has failed to end a strike by engine drivers. For the fourth time in just under a year, cargo and passenger traffic came to a standstill last week after engine drivers went on strike over the refusal by management at the indebted company to increase their pay. The...
Chongqing Bosai Minerals Group Co.,Ltd.will invest 1.2 billion dollars to build alumina project in Ghana,invest 0.5 billion dollars to build electrolytic aluminum project in Northern Europe and 0.1 billion dollars to expand Guyana aluminum ore available capacity. Ghana alumina project was invested...
China's alumina imports are set to jump further after more than doubling in September as higher domestic prices nearly erase the gap with London Metal Exchange prices.
The Cabinet, we have been told, has signed off on the sale of the Government's 45 per cent stake in the Jamalco alumina refinery, which will remove one of the sticking points in Jamaica's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the rehabilitation of its stalled standby agreement...
Alumina Ltd. said Friday that John Pizzey will succeed Don Morley as chairman when he retires Nov. 30. Pizzey joined the board as a non-executive director in 2007 and is chairman of the board's audit committee.
China's alumina imports more than doubled in September compared to August's multi-year low, as higher domestic prices narrowed the gap with London Metal Exchange prices. Alumina imports rebounded to 80,000 tonnes in September from 35,144 tonnes in August, reversing an eight-month slide.
Alumina engineering of Shandong Dongyue Energy,Feimei Aluminum has been put into production on October 8th,and annual production can reach 2400 thousand tons. This project investment was by Shandong Xinfa Group, costing 7 billion Yuan for reconstruction and expansion.This project started on March...
Galuminum Group Invest 20 billion Yuan to build large comprehensive aluminum processing & production base.It is learned that first-stage project of this base will invest 5 billion Yuan, and will be finished and put into production in next year. Galuminum Group possesses world's most complete...
