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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Rio Tinto Q2 aluminum production update
Bauxite production was 11% higher than the Q2 of 2010, notably at Weipa, driven by increased third party demand. Alumina production is gradually recovering from the abnormally heavy rains between December 2010 and April 2011 which primarily impacted Queensland Alumina’s production, affecting...
Rio Tinto Q2 aluminum production update
Bauxite production was 11% higher than the Q2 of 2010, notably at Weipa, driven by increased third party demand. Alumina production is gradually recovering from the abnormally heavy rains between December 2010 and April 2011 which primarily impacted Queensland Alumina’s production, affecting...
Orbite alumina process has global appeal
Exploration Orbite VSPA Inc. says its patented process to convert the Grande Vallée aluminous clays in the Gaspé Peninsula into alumina may have a much wider potential than expected. Orbite has already produced high-grade alumina - the intermediate material for smelting primary aluminum - in its...
BHP Billiton announces 2011 aluminum production result
BHP Billiton announced that the ongoing ramp up of the Alumar refinery of Brazil contributed to a seven per cent increase in total alumina production for the 2011 financial year. 9% increase in alumina production at Worsley of Australia for the quarter was associated with the processing of hydrate...
ALUMINA IS AMONG THE COMPANIES IN THE ALUMINUM INDUSTRY WITH THE SMALLEST SHORT INTEREST (AWC, CENX, NOR, AA, KALU)
Below are the top five companies in the Aluminum industry ranked by the lowest short interest ratio. A low short interest ratio may indicate that there are only a few people who are bearish on the stock. Alumina (NYSE:AWC - Snapshot Report) has a short interest ratio of 2.1 based on average daily...
Vietnam aims to start alumina production in September
Reuters reported that Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery. Mr Tran Duong Le deputy director of the complex's management board said that the...
Orbite Successfully Applies Its Alumina Extraction Process to Bauxite
Exploration Orbite VSPA (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) announces that it has successfully extracted alumina from samples of Guinean bauxite. Repeated internal laboratory tests and reviews by independent engineers have confirmed the potential of Orbite's process to extract alumina from bauxite. Orbite's...
Orbite Successfully Applies Its Alumina Extraction Process to Bauxite
Exploration Orbite VSPA (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) announces that it has successfully extracted alumina from samples of Guinean bauxite. Repeated internal laboratory tests and reviews by independent engineers have confirmed the potential of Orbite's process to extract alumina from bauxite. Orbite's...
Orbite Successfully Applies Its Alumina Extraction Process to Bauxite
Exploration Orbite VSPA (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) announces that it has successfully extracted alumina from samples of Guinean bauxite. Repeated internal laboratory tests and reviews by independent engineers have confirmed the potential of Orbite's process to extract alumina from bauxite. Orbite's...
China to Add 1 Mln Tonnes of Alumina Capacity -NDRC
China will add 1 million tonnes a year of alumina capacity, the state planning agency said in a statement, adding to its status as world's largest producer. The plan also includes a power plant and a bauxite mine, the ores refined into alumina, which is the main material for the production of...
China to Add 1 Mln Tonnes of Alumina Capacity -NDRC
China will add 1 million tonnes a year of alumina capacity, the state planning agency said in a statement, adding to its status as world's largest producer. The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina...
Vietnam to produce bauxite in September
Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. The country's first alumina plant in Lam Dong province is now...
Vietnam aims to start alumina production in September-report
Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery, the official Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday. The Tan Rai refinery is slated to produce...
ENRC completes Kazakhstan refinery expansion
U.K.-listed, Kazakhstan-focused Eurasian Natural Resources PLC (ENRC.LN) Monday said it has completed the expansion of its Kazakhstan alumina refinery on time and within its $305 million budget. The refinery has also successfully reached its target alumina production of 1.7 million metric tons a...
Orbite to advance Cap Chat pilot plant to commercial production
Montreal based Exploration Orbite has raised USD 57.5 million through a recently completed bought deal. Most of the net proceeds will be used to convert the company's Cap Chat pilot plant into a commercial facility producing ultra pure alumina. Orbite's major holding is its Grande Vallee property...
Pricing change happening in the alumina market
The emergence of China as the single biggest buyer of both raw materials was an underlying driver of the changes to pricing in both markets. But while the country continues to suck in huge amounts of iron ore to feed its ever expanding steel sector it seems to be moving towards self sufficiency in...
ALUMINIUM-Major market developments in June
PRODUCTION: June 23 - BHP Billiton , the world's largest mining group, said the estimated cost of expanding the Worsley alumina project in Western Australia had increased by more than half due to its complexity and inflationary pressures. BHP, which has an 86-percent interest in the project, said...
Alcoa Reveals Alumina Price Strength
Alcoa AA reported headline second-quarter income of $322 million, a 5% increase from the first quarter. Favorable from Alumina's AWC perspective is that alumina drove most of the gain for Alcoa, with headline segment income rising 31% to $186 million. Alcoa's alumina result has proved a reliable...
