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 Files a Positive Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report For Its First Planned Metallurgical Grade Alumina Plant
Orbite Aluminae CA:ORT +5.65% ("Orbite") has filed the previously announced detailed Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) prepared by the engineering consultant firm GENIVAR Inc. and the filing of a NI 43-101 compliant report about the first plant of the aluminous project in Grande-Vallee. The...
Guinea Bauxite and Cocoa Production Increased in 10 Months
Bauxite production in Guinea, the world’s biggest exporter of the ore, rose 5.7 percent to 14.3 million metric tons in the year through October, according to the country’s Finance Ministry. Cocoa also climbed. Output of alumina increased to 509,410 tons compared with 483,450 tons in the same period...
Ultra High Purity Alumina Plant
The Jacob's report noted that the HPA plant will be an "open loop" without recycled HCL reagent. Jacob's estimates the HCL reagent component represents 75% cost of HPA initially. However, this will be replaced with the startup of the SGA plant that will be alumina feed stock for the HPA plant in...
Caustic soda demand to fall on more aluminium cuts – US Alcoa
Global demand for caustic soda will drop because customers will likely cut alumina and aluminium production in the coming weeks, executives at US-based metal producer Alcoa said on Wednesday. The Alcoa executives are in Houston this week to ask caustic soda producers to give them some relief from...
China smelters seen cutting term alumina imports in 2012
Chinese aluminium smelters will reduce term imports of alumina even further in 2012 from last year's lower volumes due to cheaper supplies of the raw material at home, industry sources said on Wednesday. Top domestic alumina producer, Aluminum Corp of China Limited (Chalco) , has agreed to supply...
Alcoa's surprising optimism lifts Alumina
ALUMINA shares were boosted yesterday when US aluminium giant Alcoa gave a buoyant outlook for aluminium markets and confirmed it was not looking at closing any Australian smelters. In kicking off the US reporting season, Alcoa logged a fourth-quarter loss of $US191 million ($185m) -- its first...
Better outlook bolsters Alumina shares
ALUMINA has managed to avoid more share price savagery despite Alcoa, its partner in the AWAC global alumina alliance, confirming that the collapse in aluminium prices had resulted in a loss in the December quarter. Shares in the ASX-listed Alumina bounced 7.5¢ higher to $1.17 yesterday in response...
Production cuts of aluminum
Canada produces 2 9 million tons of aluminum per year of which 2.6 million tons are produced in quebec.. Even if production is cut by 20 %, Quebec will need Alumina to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina which equates to + or - circa 4 million tons of alumina. Considering that Alumina can be...
Alumina Limited : Alcoa 2011 4th Quarter Results
Alumina Limited notes Alcoa Inc's fourth quarter 2011 earnings announcement. Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals' results for the quarter were impacted by lower aluminium and alumina prices and ongoing cost pressures. Alumina Limited CEO, John Bevan, commented, "The impact of the difficult market...
Alcoa to cut production by mid-year, Jamaican impact unclear
Alcoa said Thursday that it would cut production capacity worldwide but there is yet no indication that Jamaica is to be affected. The American company plans to "close down or curtail" 531,000 metric tonnes of smelting capacity, which includes shutting down one plant in Tennessee and idling two of...
Multi-Fuel Cogeneration at Australia's Worsley Alumina Refinery on Track for Completion
Researched by Industrial Info Resources Australia (Perth, Australia) -- BHP Billiton Limited BHP -1.27% (Melbourne, Australia) and its subsidiary Worsley Alumina Pty Limited are continuing with construction on the $2.2 billion Worsley Alumina Refinery expansion near Collie, in Western Australia....
Local aluminium avoids price-slide fallout
AUSTRALIAN operations held in joint venture by Alcoa and Melbourne's Alumina are expected to escape the savage cutbacks that Alcoa has told the US market it needs to make in response to the collapse in aluminium prices. The Alcoa-managed AWAC joint venture - owned 60 per cent by Alcoa and 40 per...
Alumina Alcoa production cuts
US company Alcoa will cut production by an undisclosed amount at the Alcoa World Alumina & Chemicals refining joint venture part owned by Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC). Speaking with The Australian Financial Review, Alumina chief executive John Bevan, had said that production cuts were likely if low...
Alumina shares fall as Alcoa shutdowns smelting capacity
ALUMINA shares fell after Alcoa said this morning it would permanently close or idle 12 per cent of its aluminium smelting capacity, following a year in which economic uncertainty slammed prices for the industrial metal. The top US aluminium producer said in a statement it would close or curtail...
Vedanta's Orissa alumina refinery facing bauxite shortage
The one million tonne per annum capacity refinery at Lanjigarh, some 600 km from here, has been running at about 50 percent of its capacity since it was commissioned in August 2007. There are multiple reasons for this, Kumar said. "Several mines in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have stopped operations...
The Main Parts of Alumina Project of Guizhou Galuminum was Completed
The main parts of alumina project of Guizhou Galuminum Co., Ltd and dissolving out process monomer trial run was held at Guiyang City, the yearly production of the alumina project was 800 thousand tons. It is learned that this project invested 22 billion yuan totally with 1600 thousand tons...
UC RUSAL Nikolaev Alumina Refinery Hits Record Production In 2011
UC RUSAL's, the world's largest aluminium producer, Nikolaev alumina refinery has delivered a record annual production level of 1.6 million tonnes of alumina during 2011. The output increase in 2011 was also made possible through implementation of RUSAL's Production System, raising equipment...
United Company RUSAL : UC RUSAL Nikolaev alumina refinery reached record production level
These record levels were reached following a USD350 million CAPEX programme that has been undertaken at the refinery since 2000, resulting in significant upgrades to the refinery's facilities. In particular, the lime burning kiln has been reconstructed with its conversion to heating gas, fifth...
