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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Alcoa Corporation sees bauxite, alumina surplus for 2019
Alcoa said it expected the bauxite market to remain in surplus with global stockpile growth projected to continue in 2019, ranging between 7 million and 11 million tonnes, driven by China, which strategically holds bauxite due to uncertain sourcing within and outside of the country. The company...
LME aluminium declines on news that Hydro Alunorte may resume full production
The US dollar dipped to a three-month low as the latest minutes of US Federal Reserve's policy meeting hinted at less monetary tightening and as hopes grew after US-China trade talks. Base metals ended mostly higher last night. LME aluminium fell 0.3% and SHFE aluminium went up 0.19%. LME aluminium...
Chinese authorities express concerns about excessive production capacity of alumina: SMM
According to a report by Shanghai Metals Market, Chinese authorities had raised concerns about the possibility of excessive production capacity across the alumina industry in China at the end of last year. They had even cited the projects which were in the pipeline. The news came based on the...
Hydro Alunorte aims to produce at full capacity in weeks or months
Norsk Hydro aims to bring Alunorte alumina refinery back to full capacity within weeks or months, although the process still remains uncertain, Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg told Reuters. The alumina refinery has been operating at half capacity since March after state environmental...
China’s alumina production up 11.2% YoY in December
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China’s total alumina production in December came in at 6.18 million tonnes, a growth by 11.22% from a year ago. The average daily output stood at 199,000 tonnes, from 203,000 tonnes in November. In 2018, China's alumina production totalled 70.48 million tonnes,...
Guizhou Galuminium plans to expand alumina capacity to 800,000 tonnes; alumina price registers a drop in China
Galuminium in China's south-western province of Guizhou will expand its annual alumina capacity to 800,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2019. Shanghai Metals Market reported that Galuminium planned to commission its second alumina production line for phase-one project in Q4. The company’s...
Vedanta plans capex of $300 million for FY20
Vedanta Ltd has proposed to invest $250-300 million in the next fiscal for ramping up the alumina refinery capacity at Lanjigarh. The company has planned to expand the capacity to six million tonnes per annum from its current 1 million tonnes. Metals and mining giant Vedanta expects to recover the...
Operation halt at Alpart due to boiler breakdown creates concern over its future expansion plans
After 18 months since the dramatic restart of bauxite and alumina production at the JISCO (Jiquan Iron and Steel Company) Alpart faclity at Nain in St Elizabeth, operational concerns have cropped up in the refinery. Production in Alpart alumina refinery has stopped for the past seven days, and it...
800,000 tonnes of alumina capacity cut at Shanxi Huaxing due to environmental upgrade
According to Shanghai Metals Market, some 800,000 tonnes of alumina capacity got affected in Shanxi Huaxing, an alumina producer located in Shanxi province of China. This occurred as the company upgraded its generators to meet ultra-low emission standards from mid-December. The company told SMM...
Winter stockpiling keeps bauxite prices high in China; Maintenance at Chinalco to affect alumina output
According to Shanghai Metals Market, prices of bauxite remained high as of Tuesday, December 25, buoyed by winter stockpiling across alumina producers amidst growing bauxite supplies after the output resumption at some miners in Shanxi and Henan. As of December 25, bauxite with alumina/silica ratio...
China’s alumina exports in November lower 38% from the previous month despite growth in production
Despite an increase in alumina production in November, China’s alumina export stood down by 37.9 per cent from October, showed Shanghai Metals Market. China exported a total amount of 285,700 tonnes of alumina in November compared to 460,000 tonnes and above in October. According to SMM, China’s...
Alumina Industry Recap 2018: A year of supply disruptions and bullish price
Introduction: The year 2018 has seen some unprecedented developments in the global alumina and aluminium market scenario that has turned the market upside down making all previous forecasts redundant. The alumina market went through a topsy-turvy and volatile period with sharp rise and fall in...
US to remove sanctions from Rusal including Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick
The US Treasury announced on Wednesday, December 19, about its intention to remove sanctions against Oleg Deripaska-owned Rusal, which is the parent company of the Aughinish Alumina plant in Limerick. The Irish foreign ministry said in a statement that the Aughinish Alumina plant would be free from...
US import of alumina up 21% YoY in Q3 2018 on reopening of primary capacity by Alcoa and Century
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Third Quarter 2018, imports of alumina by the U.S. in the third quarter of 2018 stood at 441,000 tonnes, 21% more than the 364,000 tonnes imported in the third quarter of 2017. Quarter on quarter, the volume was 25% more than...
Nalco plans to invest INR 45000 crore in expansion projects
National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Nalco) has planned to invest INR 45,000 crore in brownfield and greenfield project expansion in the next few years, its Chairman and Managing Director Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand said. Nalco will invest around INR25,000 crore in brownfield expansions, which include...
Top five alumina refineries in the world by capacity
Alumina or aluminium oxide (Al2O3), the key raw material for producing aluminium is a white powder extracted from bauxite through Bayer process. Due to the exponential growth of the aluminium industry in last two decades and the significance of alumina in the upstream value chain, aluminium...
Brazilian expert study shows Hydro Alunorte can produce at full capacity
Brazilian expert study shows that there was no overflow from Alunorte’s residue deposit areas DRS1 and DRS2 in February 2018. The study also concludes that Alunorte, from a water management perspective, can produce at its nominal capacity of 6.3 million tonnes of alumina a year. Hydro announced...
Xinjiang reveals its plan to build US$ 831 million worth alumina refinery in Guinea
Engaged in processing aluminium primarily in China, the company named Xinjiang Joinworld Co. Ltd., reportedly revealed its plan of building an alumina refinery in Guinea. The news came when Xinjiang Joinworld announced its project plan worth US$ 831 million after a filing to the Shenzhen Stock...
