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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Orbite Introduces White Paper Series on Alumina Production and Rare Metals Extraction
Orbite Aluminae today announced that it has prepared a series of detailed white papers covering the Company's technology and markets as well as competitive advantages. "Orbite is pleased to share these in-depth white papers with our investors, customers, and industry colleagues, as they lay the...
Ormet to lay off 200 jobs at Burnside Plant
Ormet Corp. plans to lay off 200 people at its alumina plant in Ascension Parish because of reduced demand caused by rising power rates in Ohio. The Advocate reports Ormet issued 60-day federal layoff notices last Tuesday for the Burnside plant, which produces the primary raw material used in...
Orbite Aluminae to produce 99.999% pure alumina by the beginning of 2013
Orbite Aluminae, the company that supplies clean technology and alternative techniques for the alumina manufacturing industry, is set to become the first manufacturer in North America to produce extremely high quality alumina of 5N or 99.999% purity. Orbite is planning to commence production of the...
Global demand for alumina expected to soar
The global demand for high-quality aluminium trioxide or high-quality alumina (HPA) is expected to soar by a yearly compounded growth rate of 52% over three years to 2015, a report said on Thursday. HPA project developer Orbite Aluminae had commissioned consulting firm Secor to undertake a study to...
H.I.G. Europe completes aquisition of Rio Tinto’s ALTEO Alumina Unit
H.I.G. Europe (“H.I.G.”) today announced the closing of its acquisition of the Specialty Alumina business of listed global mining firm Rio Tinto Group. With effect from 1 August 2012, the new group will be renamed ALTEO. With turnover of nearly €300 million, ALTEO is the leading global integrated...
Ormet to cut output at Burnside alumina refinery, Louisiana
U.S. aluminum producer Ormet Corp said it was cutting back operations at its Burnside alumina refinery in Louisiana, due to high power costs and low global prices that have also forced it to shutter part of its aluminium production. A small producer on the global scale, Ormet joins industry...
Orbite Aluminae Begins Trading in OTCQX International
Orbite Aluminae, a leading provider of clean technology and developer of breakthrough alternative solutions for the alumina production industry, today announced that the Company will begin trading on the OTCQX International. Effective Monday, September 10, 2012, Orbite will trade on the OTCQX®...
Noranda resumes Los Angeles alumina operations
Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. has resumed alumina production at its Gramercy, La., refinery after temporarily halting operations due to Hurricane Isaac and anticipates a return to full production in the second half of September. Noranda reduced operating levels on Aug. 28 ahead of the storm, a...
Orbite Aluminae ties up with Harper International for High Purity Alumina Processing Systems
Harper International, world leader in thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, announced a new project with Orbite Aluminae Inc. for two high temperature systems in series for conversion of aluminum chloride hexahydrate crystals to high purity alumina (HPA). Orbite conducted on-site...
Vietnam's first alumina plant to start operation in October
The US$460-million Tan Rai alumina plant in Lam Dong Province has almost been completed and the facility will be put into operation in October 2012, said the Lam Dong bauxite-alumina project management board. Tran Duong Le, the board’s deputy director, released the information at a meeting between...
Vedanta says alumina refinery closure won't hit aluminium output
Vedanta Aluminium's plan to shut its alumina refinery in eastern India will not hit its aluminium output because it aims to treble imports of the raw material, a company official said on Thursday. The company, part of billionaire Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Group, intends to implement a temporary...
Vedanta may close its Lanjigarh alumina refinery by Dec
Vedanta group may close its 1 MTPA alumina refinery in Odisha’s Lanjigarh by December first week as the company is facing severe shortage of bauxite, company sources said. “We are in the process of giving three month’s notice to the Department of Labour, Odisha, to close operations. It is a...
700 Thousand Tons Alumina of Zhaofeng Aluminum Will Realize Designed Capacity in Nov
Yangquan Coal Industry Zhaofeng Aluminum’s second phase 700 thousand/year alumina project raw material plant has put into test run on 25th, July, this marked Yangquan Coal Group’s aluminum and electricity industry chain will improve further, its alumina production capacity will reach 1100 thousand...
UC Rusal to present its latest research on alumina production at "Non-Ferrous Metals 2012"
UC RUSAL has become a sponsor of IV International Congress & Exhibition ''Non-Ferrous Metals-2012'', which will be held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on 5-7 September 2012. The Company will present its latest research on aluminium alloys and alumina production. The ''Non-Ferrous Metals-2012'' congress is...
Russia's Rusal to invest $100 million in Jamaica power plant
Russia's Rusal, the world's largest aluminium producer, will invest $100 million in a coal-fired electricity generating plant in Jamaica, hoping to reduce power costs at its operations in the Caribbean country. Jamaica's Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell announced the company's plan...
Orbite technology expected to revolutionise alumina
The developer of a potentially market-changing alumina-producing technology Orbite Aluminae on Thursday said it had found a way to produce high-quality smelter-grade alumina (HGA) at a cost of about 40% less than that produced through traditional methods. President and CEO Richard Boudreault told...
Alumina Ltd. ratings lowered to 'BBB-'
On Aug. 29, 2012, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its ratings on Australian mining company Alumina Ltd. (Alumina) to 'BBB-', from 'BBB'. The outlook is stable. They view that the current trading conditions in the alumina and aluminum industries are more challenging than at the beginning...
Rusal seeks Chinese partners to exploit alumina in Siberia
United Company Rusal Plc, the world’s biggest aluminum producer, is seeking Chinese partners to set up joint venture factories in Russia’s Siberia region, the Beijing-based Jinghua Times reported Monday. The Russian company, which accounting 9 percent of global alumina and aluminum output, just...
