Impact Minerals plans staged 4,000-tpa HPA production in US
A NewPro study supports a staged 2,000-to-4,000-tonne-per-year high-purity alumina plant on the US Gulf Coast, with a post-tax NPV of about USD373 million and a 42.3 per cent IRR. Impact Minerals is advancing plans for a modular high-purity alumina (HPA) plant in the US after an independent scoping...
Alcoa files SEC registration for $5.6b South32 alumina, aluminium and bauxite asset deal
Alcoa has moved its proposed acquisition of South32's bauxite, alumina and aluminium interests forward with a US SEC filing, with the transaction carrying an implied enterprise value of up to USD 5.6 billion. Alcoa Corporation has filed a Form S-4 registration statement with the US Securities and...
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Yunnan Wenshan's alumina plant in full production
An 800,000-tpy alumina plant at Yunnan Aluminium Co.’s subsidiary company achieved full production. The plant at Yunnan Wenshan Aluminium Co. produced 190,000 tonnes of alumina in the third quarter, the parent company told Shenzhen Stock Exchange today. Yunnan Wenshan commenced construction of the...
BHP’s aluminium and alumina output up in September quarter
BHP Billiton’s aluminium output in the September quarter rose 15% year-on-year boosted by strong performance at its South African smelters with record production at Hillside. In the three months ended September 30, 2013, BHP’s aluminium output was 310,000 tonnes, unchanged from output in the June...
Vedanta Aluminium aims to triple capacity despite alumina shortage
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd will triple its capacity by 2015 to 2.3 million tonnes to cater for an expected surge in demand in India, its managing director said, even though its inability to source enough alumina at home has forced it to import the raw material. The company, a unit of London-listed...
New Smelter to boost revenue at Antam in near future
State mining company Aneka Tambang, commonly known as Antam, says it expects to gain an additional $150 million in revenue from its alumina smelter plant slated to open later this month in Tayan, West Kalimantan, the company’s chief said on Thursday. Antam’s smelter will be able to process up to...
Vedanta moves Project Monitoring Group for Lanjigarh refinery expansion
Mining conglomerate Vedanta Group has approached Prime Minister's Project Monitoring Group, which was established to fast track stalled large investment projects, seeking environment clearance for expansion of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha to 6 million tonnes. The Project Monitoring...
Nalco Australia introduces new foam control technology for alumina processing
Nalco Australia has released its new FoamGuard antifoam technology, which it says provides improvements in operating and cost efficiencies, as well as benefits for plant and operator safety. Available for either hot-end or cold-end applications, and developed to prevent the formation and...
China's Shandong Nanshan to set up $5 bln aluminium complex in Indonesia
China's Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Co Ltd plans a $5 billion integrated aluminium plant on the Indonesian island of Bintan, company Chairman Song Jianbo said on Wednesday. "(It) will be completed within 3 years. We will use local bauxite to make up alumina and then we will use the alumina to make...
Nalco's alumina exports marked a 50% rise in the first half
State-run National Aluminium Co's alumina exports in the first half of the current fiscal vaulted 50 per cent from a year ago, mainly on account of the capacity expansion undertaken by the company. In the six months to September, Nalco exported 638,000 tonnes of alumina compared with 425,000 tonnes...
Middle East will produce 5m tonnes of aluminium in 2015
The Middle East will produce 5 million tonnes of primary aluminium by 2015, compared with 3.7 million tonnes in 2012, according to the Gulf Aluminium Council (GAC). The region will produce 1.8 million tonnes of value-added aluminium products, compared with 1.2 million tonnes in 2012, Mahmood...
Vedanta continues its technological innovations despite loss at Lanjigarh
Vedanta Aluminium's (VAL) Rs 5,000-crore alumina refinery at Lanjigarh faces trouble over the denial of bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills but that hasn't stopped its technological innovations. The company plans to implement zero-based costing - a method to identify and implement every cost-saving...
Utkal Alumina unable to transport alumina due to pending rail link permission
The Hindalco group company, Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), which started alumina production from its plant in south Odisha about four months ago, is unable to transport the material to its end use plants pending permission from the railway authorities to operate the rail link. “About...
Non-ferrous metal production/manufacturing facility being created in northern Kazakhstan
The clusters of non-ferrous metallurgy and transport machine building are being created in northern Kazakhstan, akim (governor) of Pavlodar oblast (province), Yerlan Aryn said on Friday. "We will build a cluster of non-ferrous metals on the basis of the Pavlodar aluminium and electrolysis plants,"...
China’s bauxite imports surged in August 2013: SMM
China’s bauxite imports surged in August amid fears that the Indonesian government may impose an outright ban on the exports of unprocessed ores, including bauxite, in 2014. China imported 6.98 million mt of bauxite in August, a 241.55% increase YoY. YTD imports through August totaled 46.12 million...
NALCO may invest $811 million to boost its alumina refining capacity
National Aluminium Co. (NALCO), India’s biggest state-owned producer, may invest INR 50 billion ($811 million) to boost its alumina refining capacity and revive earnings that are forecast to slide to a three-year low. The company will enhance its annual ability to process alumina by 43 percent to...
Aneka Tambang explores CGA alumina market in Tayan
PT Aneka Tambang (Persero) Tbk (ANTM), a state-owned enterprise in the mining sector, is exploring the marketing of Chemical Grade Alumina (CGA) plant located in Tayan, Sanggau District, West Kalimantan. The factory processing bauxite into CGA will start a commissioning at the end of October. Tri...
Alumina Limited tops the list of nine best stock picks by Research house Morningstar
From Alumina to Woodside Petroleum, research house Morningstar has unveiled its nine top stock picks from the 230 companies it analyses from the Australian Securities Exchange. Morningstar’s best stock ideas are “our most-vetted, highest conviction ideas” at attractive prices, according to the...
International company to invest on alumina production complex in Batken
International Company plans to invest about $4 billion in the construction of alumina production complex at Zardalek deposit in Batken province. The executive director of Matrass Mining Group international company in Kyrgyzstan Azad Mikhailov stated at the meeting with the Plenipotentiary...
RUSAL Aughinish refinery records losses
The largest alumina refinery in Europe, RUSAL Aughinish, which is located on the Shannon Estuary, plunged into the red last year as it racked up pre-tax losses of $10.4m (€7.68m). The business recorded the loss as revenues at the refinery dipped by $24m, or 2.5pc, from $610.57m to $586m in the 12...
