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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Alumina Limited reports record daily alumina production; Net profit after tax declined 57% in H12020
Alumina Limited reported a statutory net profit after tax of US$90.5 million for the half-year to 30 June 2020, down 57% year on year. Excluding significant items, the net profit after tax was US$87.5 million. The Company declared an interim, fully franked dividend of 2.8 US cents per share. The...
India should tap domestic aluminium potential and curb imports in line with self-reliant programme: FIMI
On Friday, August 21, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) said the country should check its aluminium imports and make use of “rich and almost inexhaustible” domestic resources instead, in line with the government’s self-reliant vision. The domestic aluminium consumption is expected to...
Supreme Court directs Nalco to supply 30,000 tonnes of alumina to Vedanta's Visakhapatnam unit
On Wednesday, August 19, the Supreme Court ordered National Aluminium Company (NALCO) to ensure delivery of 30,000 tonnes of metallurgical-grade calcined alumina to Vedanta at Visakhapatnam on Free on Board (FOB) basis. The same will be for use in Vedanta’s SEZ unit at Jharsuguda in Orissa,...
Rusal’s Aughinish Alumina in Ireland books profit after revoke of US sanctions
Rusal Aughinish Alumina is the largest alumina refinery in Europe and the largest of the alumina facilities operated by UC RUSAL has declared the rise of pre-tax profits by over 30% to $54.60 million for 2019. The company has been done well following the revoke of US sanctions against its Russian...
Alunorte’s alumina production plunge, a dividend for Nalco
The Indian state-run National Aluminium Company is expected to gain, as Hydro’s Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil will axe down production by 30-45% due to maintenance of the bauxite supply pipeline at Paragominas mine, as per market analysts. Norsk Hydro ASA, among the biggest aluminium...
Indonesia’s Alumina import pick-up reflects in 2017-18; remains stable during 2018-20
Indonesia’s state aluminium company PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (Inalum) expects to stop importing alumina by 2022 as it expected to complete the construction of alumina refinery, but the COVID-19 pandemic might cause delays in the planning. The country’s demand for the alumina has been supported...
"Alumina Ltd.” operates successfully amid COVID-19 pandemic: Radovan Višković, Prime Minister of Srpska
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Srpska, said on 13 th August’20 in Zvornik that the company "Alumina", regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic, is operating successfully. "The number of workers who worked before the pandemic and now is the same, there were no layoffs, production is slightly lower...
Canyon announces maiden JORC 2012 ore reserve at 51.1% alumina for Minim Martap Bauxite Project
According to a recent report, Canyon Resources Limited has announced a maiden JORC 2012 ore reserve for its Minim Martap Bauxite Project in Cameroon, West Africa. The reserve is estimated to have 97.3 million tonnes of ore at 51.1 per cent alumina and 2.3 per cent silica. This ore is based on the...
Shell completes its Port Allen Plant expansion to increase precipitated alumina powder production
According to a recent report, Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) has successfully completed the expansion of its Port Allen, Louisiana plant in the US, to double the production capacity of precipitated alumina powder. The project is part of the SC&T’s strategy to meet the growing demand for...
CeramTec: Ceramic multi-channel tubes made of Alumina in usage for liquid filtration in multiple industries
Premium grade industrial materials are crucial for economical filtration processes. CeramTec’s porous ceramic membrane tubes that are used for cross-flow membrane filtration amalgamates vital properties that support customers with upgraded functionality and eventually save cost on filtration units....
China’s alumina production rose 3.5% M-o-M to 5.91 million tonnes in July 2020
Shanghai Metals Market found China’s alumina production stood at 5.91 million tonnes in July 2020, including 5.7 million tonnes of metallurgical-grade alumina. The output increased by 3.50 per cent from 5.71 million tonnes in June 2020. China’s total alumina output in the first seven months of the...
Australian researchers evaluate the commercial sustainability of Solar Alumina Calcining
Australia’s industrial carbon emissions released by the alumina refineries counted to be around 27%, where fossils fuels are burned to heat the procedure. However, concentrated solar thermal (CST) could deliver up to half of the heat required. Australian researchers have for the first time...
Cita Mineral Investindo in Indonesia stays positive for its bauxite mining and alumina production growth for left-over 2020
PT Cita Mineral Investindo Tbk presumes that the performance of its bauxite and alumina business will pursue to grow for the left-over 2020, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company is yet to report its results for the first half of operational performance. During Q1 of 2020,...
Alumina production in North America grows by 6% M-o-M in June 2020; South America’s output lowers by 4%
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...
World alumina production in H1 2020 grows by merely 1% over the year, output in June drops 2.83% M-o-M
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...
Roll-out of National Coal Index powers the demand for National Mineral Index in India, Bauxite mining to foster
The introduction of “National Mineral Index” in India will support the mining sector to become a competitive and engaging uniform competition in auctions and active participation by small scale mining firms. The roll-out of the National Coal Index (NCI) has brought about a switch by bringing in...
Rusal’s bauxite production records a surge of 9% to 3.89 MT in Q2 2020, alumina output remains flat at 2 MT
Rusal in its Q2 2020 operating results, released on Monday July 27, revealed that the company’s bauxite production increased by 8.8 per cent quarter-on-quarter to stand at 3.89 million tonnes, primarily buoyed by the hike in output at Timan due to low comparison base of Q1 20, affected by seasonal...
Norsk Hydro: Higher production costs of alumina may affect company’s profit in Q3 2020
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...
