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...
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...
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According to the Shanghai Metals Market, many northern regions in China have issued output control policies for the 2020-21 heating season. In mid-November, Lvliang in Shanxi province issued the List of Heavy Pollution Weather Emergency Emission Reductions in 2020, including ten alumina refineries...
In October 2020, alumina production in South America stood at 926,000 tonnes, registering an increase of 24.63 per cent month-on-month following a slight dip in the previous month, showed the International Aluminium Institute (IAI). In September 2020, alumina production in South America came in at...
The National Industrial Development Center (NIDC), which shoulders the responsibility of transforming Saudi Arabia’s industrial sector by creating new industries to diversify the economy and meet vision 2030 ambitions, has associated with the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources. The...
The Chinese company engaged in alumina refinery project, PT Bintan Alumina Indonesia (BAI), will commence its operations in early 2021 in the Galang Batang Special Economic Zone (KEK), Bintan Regency, Riau Islands. Santoni, President Director of PT BAI stated that currently, BAI is the lone company...
In West Europe, alumina production in October 2020 stood at 448,000 tonnes, recording a hike of 15,000 tonnes or 3.46 per cent from 433,000 tonnes in September. The output in September 2020 was, however, down by 11.09 per cent month-on-month from 487,000 tonnes in August 2020. Thus, the total...
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) data shows the world alumina production in October 2020 stood at 11.450 million tonnes compared with 10.855 million tonnes in September 2020. This represents that production in October grew by 5.48 per cent month-on-month, following a drop of 4.81 per...
China’s average alumina spot price has recorded a dip of RMB 2 per tonne to close the week on Friday, November 27, at RMB 2,281 per tonne, according to the Shanghai Metals Market. The price has recorded a change today after remaining restrained for the last two consecutive days on November 25 & 26....
Ghana is home to three out of the four stages in producing aluminium. Only the alumina refining stage does not take place in Ghana. The rest, namely bauxite mining, aluminium smelter producing ingots and the casting of aluminium ingots into sheets, coils and profiles, take place here. The Ghana...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has increased by RMB 4 per tonne on Tuesday, 24 November 2020 to stand at RMB 2283 per tonne, after a decline of RMB1 per tonne since yesterday. Alumina price in Shanxi has risen by RMB 10 per tonne to stand at RMB 2280 per...
Vedanta Lanjigarh, India’s premier producer of metallurgical grade alumina, has begun the ‘Energy Conservation Project’ to promote clean lighting and clean cooking in the villages of Lanjigarh. Under the project, the company has already distributed solar lights to every household in Dengsargi...
Vedanta Limited announced Organizational changes last month, wherein it centralized the Procurement & Marketing functions across all it’s businesses into an integrated Group Commercial Organization. As part of these Organization changes, Vedanta appointed Deeptaman Mukherjee as the ‘Director, Group...
Alteo alumina refinery, the producer of world-class speciality alumina is still in the run, as two houses are standing deadlock towards presenting their plan at the Marseille Commercial Court on November 17 to take over the plant. The refinery based in Gardanne in the Bouches-du-Rhône has been in...
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has announced the launch of a roadmap to maximise the use of bauxite residue in cement and concrete products. The roadmap includes information that addresses concerns, prejudices, technical and legislative barriers to bauxite residue use. Katy Tsesmelis...
Hydro announced that its official sponsorship of the 38th edition of ICSOBA. The event, one of the largest Bauxite & Alumina trade events in the world, will take place online from November 16 to 18. The public can visit exhibition stands, download technical material, access virtual meeting rooms,...
The alumina production in Iran has recorded with a 4% rise during the first seven months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-October 21), compared to the same phase of time in the previous year. Iran Alumina Company in the north-eastern province of North Khosaran is the only alumina...
King River Resources Ltd, an Australian mining company has successfully trialled its new high purity alumina (HPA) process route using alternative aluminium chemical feedstocks. Metallurgical test work is currently underway on both this new precursor and the Speewah precursor to delivering a 4N HPA...
Chalco’s Huasheng alumina refinery at Fangchenggang Port in Guangxi has begun operations on its second production line, which will add 1 million tonnes per annum of alumina capacity to an already oversupplied market, said sources to Fastmarkets on Monday, November 9. “I heard their second operation...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, China’s alumina production in October 2020 came in at 6.16 million tonnes, including 5.95 million tonnes of metallurgical-grade alumina. This marked an increase of 4.23 per cent from 5.91 million tonnes of output in September 2020. The average daily output...
