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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In June 2020, the alumina production (including metallurgical-grade alumina) in North America stood at 223,000 tonnes, up by 6.19 per cent month-on-month from 210,000 tonnes, according to the data released by the International Aluminium Institute. However, on a year-on-year basis, the production in...
Altech Chemicals Limited has released its quarterly reports ended June 2020 mentioning the recommencement of its high purity alumina site in Johor Bahru, Malaysia on June 3, 2020, following the lifting of the Malaysian government COVID-19 pandemic Movement Control Order (MCO). The quarterly reports...
The global alumina production in June 2020 decreased on a monthly basis by 2.83 per cent to stand at 10.98 million tonnes versus 11.3 million tonnes in May, found the International Aluminium Institute. On a year-on-year comparison, the production in June stood flat as the world alumina output...
The average spot alumina price in China has dropped by RMB 27 per tonne on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 to stand at RMB 2416 per tonne. Alumina prices declined across all major markets in China, except South. The prices of alumina in East, Central, and North China markets have declined by RMB 25 per...
According to the Shanghai Metals Market, the average alumina spot price has declined for the second consecutive day by RMB 24 per tonne to stand at RMB 2,443 per tonne, as of Tuesday, July 28. The price in the east China market has dropped the highest by RMB 40 per tonne to RMB 2,425 per tonne,...
The average spot alumina price in China is down by RMB 24 per tonne on Monday, 27 July 2020. Alumina price stands at RMB 2467 per tonne, after declining by RMB 4 per tonne on Friday. Alumina prices have decreased in Central and North markets in China. The prices of alumina in Central, and North...
The Shanghai Metals Market data shows that the average spot price of alumina has dropped by RMB 4 per tonne after remaining restrained for the last ten days. On Friday, July 24, the alumina price has come in at RMB 2,491 per tonne compared to RMB 2,495 per tonne during July 13-23, found SMM. In the...
Hydro announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Golar Power for the use of environmentally friendly natural gas at the Hydro Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil. The company aims to replace a major part of its current fuel oil consumption at the refinery with natural gas....
Despite the robust second-quarter earnings, Norsk Hydro analysed that it might face higher production costs going ahead in the third quarter of 2020. The overall production costs of alumina fell to a four-year low of $192 per tonne in Q2 2020, but in the third quarter, rising costs would likely add...
The Industrial Residue activation for continual cement production, project 'ReActiv' will create an ultra-modern and feasible value chain, clamping bauxite residue, the offshoot of the alumina production with the cement industry. The only calcined alumina producer of Romania, ALUM takes part as a...
The Noble Group has formed a treaty with the Jamaican Government to reorganise the assets and operations of alumina refinery Jamalco into a holding company that will raise equity capital on the stock market. The unnamed company is expected to list on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE. Noble Group...
According to the International Aluminium Institute data, the world alumina production in May 2020 stood at 11.1 million tonnes, up by 1.74 per cent from 10.91 million tonnes in April 2020. When compared to a year earlier, the output was found almost flat. In May 2019, global alumina production was...
Mining company South32 reported alumina production of 5.269 million tonnes in FY20, compared to 5.050 million tonnes in FY19, up 4 per cent year-on-year. In Q4 FY20, alumina production stood at 1.358 million tonnes, an increase of 6 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Brazil Alumina saleable production...
The alumina price in China continued to remain flat over the week. The average spot price started the week higher at RMB 2495 per tonne on Monday, July 13, up RMB 50 per tonne from Friday. Alumina price remained unchanged in the last four days of the week. Other raw materials like Bauxite...
Rio Tinto’s alumina production for the second quarter of 2020 was six per cent higher than the than the same period of 2019. This was due to higher production levels in the Pacific refineries with Yarwun delivering a half year production record. On a quarter-on-quarter comparison, output registered...
The research team of the University of Natural Sciences successfully implemented the project of manufacturing building materials from red mud arising in alumina production in the Central Highlands, creating economic efficiency and reducing pollution. Red mud is a waste generated from alumina...
According to the global export-import data, India’s alumina imports in CY2020 are estimated to stand at 2.27 million tonnes, down by 4.22 per cent from 2.37 million tonnes (approx.) in 2019. In 2018, India had imported 2.69 million tonnes, meaning the country’s alumina imports in 2019 stood down by...
Altech Chemicals Limited executed an option to purchase agreement for a ~10 hectare industrial site within the Schwarze Pumpe Industrial Park, municipality of Spreetal, Saxony, Germany. The company had received an official invitation from the State Government of Saxony in September 2019 to consider...
