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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During the mid-2019, PT Borneo Alumina Indonesia (PT BAI) created a consortium, formed of three companies, for the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) towards the development and execution of a One Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA) smelter grade alumina refinery project and a 2×40,000 normal cubic...
The new filtration process has started working; speciality alumina producer Alteo is permitted to discharge waste-free water at sea. The eight buyers who are in the run will visit the plant site in France next week. The trade unions demand that they incorporate this new data in their offer, fearing...
According to a recent report, the Odisha Government has designated the hospital of Utkal Alumina International Limited, located at Doraguda village of Kashipur, Rayagada district, as the Covid Care Centre. Aditya Birla Group Company’s Utkal Hospital was earlier being used for institutional...
Navin Agarwal, Executive Vice Chairman, addressed employees at Vedanta’s alumina refinery in Lanjigarh on Saturday through a virtual townhall meeting. Vedanta Limited reaffirmed its commitment to an Atma Nirbhar Bharat. The entire leadership team of the refinery, employees and business partners...
The alumina price in China continued to remain flat over the week. The price on Monday, August 24, increased by RMB 17 per tonne to stand at RMB 2347 per tonne. The price did not show any movement on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The price stood higher at RMB 2360 per tonne on Friday, August 28....
An Iranian-flagged vessel loaded a cargo of 14,000 tonnes of alumina in Venezuela this month after delivering supplies for an Iranian supermarket in the South American nation, said three sources familiar with the matter. However, the customer of the cargo or the destination is still unknown....
A team of researchers from the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT), India affirms to have developed a technique for transforming fly ash waste into wealth. As per the research team’s claim, they have extracted commercially-useful minerals like alumina among others containing rare...
According to the latest data shared by the International Aluminium Institute, alumina production in North America rose month-on-month in July 2020 by 8,000 tonnes or 3.6 per cent to stand at 231,000 tonnes. In June, the output was 223,000 tonnes, growing by 13,000 tonnes or 6.19 per cent from...
In July 2020, China imported 417,263 tonnes of alumina, more than double the 200,000 tonnes in the year ago, according to Chinese customs data released on Tuesday, August 25. China’s total alumina imports since the beginning of the year has come in at 2.33 million tonnes, up by 341.2 per cent from...
West Europe produced 477,000 tonnes of alumina in July 2020, according to the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) data. That was a decrease of 2.45% from 489,000 tonnes in July 2019 and 0.12% from 478,000 tonnes in June 2020. Alumina production in the first seven months of 2020 stood at 3.319...
Global alumina production stood at 11.368 million tonnes in July, a slight decrease of 0.5% from 11.425 million tonnes in July 2019, according to the latest data showed by the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) on Wednesday, 26 August 2020. On a month-on-month comparison, the output increased...
Alumina (Imported) price has increased to RMB 2365 per tonne, representing a growth of RMB 65 per tonne after remaining unchanged at RMB 2300 per tonne since August 18. The average price is expected to move within a range of RMB 2350-2380 per tonne. Alumina price in other major China markets...
Alumina Limited reported a statutory net profit after tax of US$90.5 million for the half-year to 30 June 2020, down 57% year on year. Excluding significant items, the net profit after tax was US$87.5 million. The Company declared an interim, fully franked dividend of 2.8 US cents per share. The...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has risen by RMB 17 per tonne on Monday, August 24 2020, to stand at RMB 2347 per tonne. This marks the third consecutive hike in alumina price. The prices in all other major markets have also increased today, except South....
After remaining restrained at RMB 2,302 per tonne during August 19-20, the average alumina spot price has recorded an increase of RMB 16 per tonne today, on August 21, for the second consecutive day, to stand at RMB 2,330 per tonne according to the Shanghai Metals Market. In the central and north,...
On Wednesday, August 19, the Supreme Court ordered National Aluminium Company (NALCO) to ensure delivery of 30,000 tonnes of metallurgical-grade calcined alumina to Vedanta at Visakhapatnam on Free on Board (FOB) basis. The same will be for use in Vedanta’s SEZ unit at Jharsuguda in Orissa,...
As updated by Shanghai Metals Market, average spot alumina price in China has risen by RMB 12 per tonne on Thursday, 20 August 2020.The price now stands at RMB 2314 per tonne after remaining flat at RMB 2302 per tonne for the three days in a row. The prices in all other major markets have also...
Rusal Aughinish Alumina is the largest alumina refinery in Europe and the largest of the alumina facilities operated by UC RUSAL has declared the rise of pre-tax profits by over 30% to $54.60 million for 2019. The company has been done well following the revoke of US sanctions against its Russian...
