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...
China's domestic spot alumina prices continued their gradual downward trend last week, with sporadic discounted transactions emerging in the market, based on Mysteel's survey. The pressure was partly contributed by the persistent expectation of fresh supply coming online in southern China, leaving...
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In May 2021, alumina production in North America stood at 329,000 tonnes, reflecting a month-on-month increase of only 2,000 tonnes or 0.61 per cent, found the International Aluminium Institute. In April, alumina production in North America was 327,000 tonnes, 3.25 per cent less than 338,000 tonnes...
Indonesia’s first and largest smelter grade alumina producer, PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina Refinery management took seriously the issue of a strike that will be carried out by the PK-SBSI labour union and PT Well Harvest Winning Alumina Refinery’s FSBSPK regarding the issue of the structure of...
The Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second-largest metals and mining corporation Rio Tinto is examining the technical implications of using hydrogen as a form of renewable energy in place of natural gas to reduce emissions from refining alumina. The feasibility study amounting to...
The global frontrunner in sustainable minerals processing technologies, end-to-end solutions, and services, Metso Outotec has secured a contract for the engineering and delivery of bauxite grinding package to National Aluminium Company’s (NALCO) Damanjodi Alumina Refinery as part of NALCO’s fifth...
According to the International Aluminium Institute data, alumina production in East & Central Europe in May 2021 stood at 425,000 tonnes, reflecting a month-on-month increase of 26,000 tonnes or 6.52 per cent. In April, East & Central Europe produced 399,000 tonnes, which stood almost flat compared...
The Australian listed resources company, FYI Resources, which is focused on developing an innovative and vertically integrated high quality, high-purity alumina for use in various high growth tech applications has developed an independent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting...
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced last week that it welcomed Dadco Alumina and Chemicals Limited as a new Production and Transformation member. That brought the total number of ASI members to 175. Dadco is an international group active in the aluminium industry. It is a leading supplier of...
According to the International Aluminium Institute, world alumina production in May 2021 stood at 12.166 million tonnes. That was up by 3.86 per cent from 11.714 million tonnes in April 2021. However, the output in April was down by 1.82 per cent from 11.931 million tonnes in the previous month. On...
Hydro’s alumina refinery in Barcarena, Brazil which processes bauxite from its mine in Paragominas, also in Pará state has secured the license to operate the deposit called DRS2, after the installation phase and all commissioning tests are approved by environmental agencies. The DRS2 deposit area...
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) alumina refinery production is fed into Ma'aden’s Smelter. The Smelter’s annual production capacity is 780,000 tonnes per year of primary aluminium. The technology used in Ma’aden’s Smelter is AP Technology. The alumina refinery feedstock comes from large...
The global aluminium industry’s alumina segment remained heavily eventful this week. National Aluminium Company Limited, Government of India owned integrated and diversified mining, metal and power organisation has been obstructed by residents of a village in Odisha, when government staffs went for...
Alcoa Corporation has laid out a detailed plan of leveraging renewable energy to refine alumina in an attempt to cut 70 per cent of carbon emissions. Among Australia’s emissions-intensive exports, alumina and aluminium are the highest at risk for carbon border tariffs that the European Union is set...
A prefeasibility study (PFS) for high purity alumina (HPA) project in the Kwinana industrial area, West Australia, has found that ASX-listed King River Resources can be a significant producer of high-value purity alumina. The HPA project will use King River’s ARC process to produce the high purity...
Vedanta Limited’s Lanjigarh has started ‘Sashakti Suvidha Kendra’ to help local women sustain their livelihood due to the various challenges posed by the covid pandemic. G.G Pal, Dy. CEO – Alumina Business, inaugurated the initiative along with Javed Khan, Block Program Coordinator, Lanjigarh to...
Rio Tinto has teamed up with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to study using hydrogen in alumina refineries to cut carbon emissions. The project involves a feasibility study into using clean hydrogen to replace natural gas in the calcination process of refining at the Yarwun alumina...
The construction of the alumina refinery with a production capacity of 1 million tonnes per year in the Galang Batang Special Economic Zone has been accomplished, as confirmed by President Director of PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia (BAI), Santoni. The bauxite to alumina processing plant with 98%...
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has granted a trading halt to King River Resources ahead of the release of a pre-feasibility study (PFS) on its Kwinana High Purity Alumina project. As per our information, the trading halt will prevail in place till the commencement of regular trade on 17th...
The Dengajaniguda village in Odisha under Dasamantpur block of Koraput district witnessed restlessness as local inhabitants obstructed the government revenue officials from pin-pointing land for Nalco’s red mud pond. It has been reported that since 11th June 2021, the villagers are geared up with...
