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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Altech Chemicals Limited aiming to become the world’s leading supplier of HPA has announced that it has received a commitment letter from State Ministry for Economic, Labour and Transport, Saxony, Germany for a grant of €7,380,000. The grant would be available to Altech towards the support of total...
Hydro has announced the termination of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Golar Power and CELBA. The MoU, which was signed in July 2020, between Hydro’s alumina refinery Alunorte, Golar Power Brasil Participações and Centrais Elétricas Barcarena (CELBA) for the project to bring liquified...
Ghana is the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the Millenium Development Goal 1, which is the target of halving extreme poverty. Ghana has recently become a middle-income country. Ghana's economic freedom score is 59.4, making its economy the 104th freest in the 2020 Index. Ghana is...
Blockchain Foundry Inc., a leading North American blockchain development firm, has entered into an agreement with Alumina Partners (Ontario) Ltd., a subsidiary of Alumina Partners LLC, for a drawdown equity financing facility of up to C$4 million. It covers for a period of over a 24-month....
Austria is a well-developed market economy with a skilled labour force and a high standard of living. Its economy features a large service sector, a sound industrial sector, and a small, but highly developed agricultural sector. FocusEconomics panellists forecasted GDP will contract 6.6% in 2020,...
New Day Aluminum Holdings, and its parent company, DADA Holdings, are in discussions with several potential global partners on various strategic initiatives to materially expand its capabilities and further secure the long term sustainability of Noranda Alumina, its Louisiana-based alumina...
SRG Global Limited has received $100m contract with South32 Worsley Alumina to deliver specialist Refractory Services, including gunning and casting and installation of refractory products and anchors. The company will start its work this month for a duration of eight years. South32 has also...
The BUMN mining holding or Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID) is still working on several strategic projects even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, one of which is the Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR). This project is a collaboration between PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminum (Inalum) and PT Aneka...
Alumina production in North America continued to grow in August 2020, according to the latest data revealed by the International Aluminium Institute. From 231,000 tonnes in July, alumina output in North America increased by 7,000 tonnes or 3.03 per cent to stand at 238,000 tonnes in August. The...
West Europe’s alumina production stood 2.74 per cent higher year-on-year to 487,000 tonnes in August 2020. The output increased by 2.1 per cent from July’s production of 477,000 tonnes and 1.88 per cent from June’s production of 478,000 tonnes. In the first eight months of 2020, alumina output...
According to the latest data released by the International Aluminium Institute, world alumina production in August 2020 stood flat at 11.366 million tonnes, following a hike of 3.1 per cent from 11.029 million tonnes in June to 11.367 tonnes in July 2020. On a year-on-year basis, the output in...
Chevron, the American multinational energy corporation has signed an agreement to supply a supplementary 37PJ (962mn m³) of gas sourced from the three LNG projects located offshore Western Australia (WA) to Alcoa's alumina refineries in the southwest part of the state, adding to an existing...
Alpha HPA has reportedly manufactured a batch of 99.99% high purity alumina (HPA) coating pre-cursor material at its demonstration plant as part of its HPA First project that aims to produce 10,000 tonnes per annum HPA and related products. The material is meant for using in coating cathode and...
Rio Tinto has considerably progressed with its $75 million planned maintenance shutdown work at two of its alumina refineries in Gladstone, Queensland this year. Despite the COVID-19 restrictions, the mining giant conducted maintenance work at Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refinery by using...
Alcoa, the global leader in bauxite, alumina, and aluminium products on 23 rd September’20, announced the diversification of its Sustana™ product line with the inclusion of EcoSource™, the industry’s first low-carbon smelter-grade alumina brand. EcoSource is produced with no more than 0.6 tonnes of...
Altech Chemicals Limited has made public that it is in the final development stage of a high purity alumina (HPA) grade that is specifically designed for anode applications within lithium-ion batteries. This initiative is in reaction to lithium-ion battery anode development trends that Altech has...
Ukraine is a developing country and ranks 88th on the Human Development Index. As of 2020, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe alongside Moldova in terms of GDP per capita. Ukraine has a mixed economic system in which there is limited private freedom, combined with centralized economic...
Montenegro's economy is transitioning to a market system. Around 90% of Montenegrin state-owned companies have been privatized, including 100% of banking, telecommunications, and oil distribution. The major industrial sectors that support the economy of the nation are aluminium, steel, consumer...
