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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Outlook 2017: Awaiting opportunities in the bauxite sector
<p>According to CRU, global alumina capacity is forecast to grow by 29.6% over the next ten years, reaching 179.6M tonnes by 2024. Metallurgical grade alumina capacity expansion, primarily in China will drive the growth in demand for bauxite. China's growing need for raw materials to feed its...
Yarwun's Rio Tinto alumina refinery production at record levels in 2016
<p>Rio Tinto’s fourth quarter report for 2016 shows that the workers at Yarwun's Rio Tinto refinery achieved alumina production at record levels. For the fourth quarter of 2016, the metals and minerals company produced 2,104,000 tonnes of alumina, five per cent higher than in 2015.<br /><br...
Odisha government revives hopes to Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery
<p>The Odisha government and state-owned Odisha Mining Corporation entered into a partnership on Wednesday, 11 January, that will provide bauxites to the Vedanta’s Lanjigarh alumina refinery, which is not operating to its full capacity.<br /><br />Lanjigarh alumina refinery will get bauxite...
Lift on ore export ban may affect Indonesia’s growing smelting industry
<p>Indonesia government has operated 32 mineral processing and refining corporations from 2012 to 2016 with the total sum of investment of USD20 billion in smelting industries.</p> <p>Deputy Chairman of Processing and Smelting Companies Association (AP3I), Jonathan Handoyo commented: “From...
EC directs Imerys to divest its La Bathie alumina operations
<p>Imerys S.A, the French multinational behemoth dealing in industrial mineral production and processing, will divest one of its newly purchased fused alumina operations in La Bathie in Savoie, France, reported sources familiar with the development. The move comes after the European Commission set...
Outlook 2017: Where is alumina headed after ending in a supply deficit in 2016?
<p>Alumina enters 2017 on a positive note. Its price advance last year was ahead of other commodities in the aluminium value chain, and the growing demand from China and Middle East aluminium makers suggests that those gains may be sustained this year as well.</p> <p>{newsStudioGallery}</p> <p><br...
Bosai Minerals resumes production at its South China alumina refinery
<p>China's leading mining, manufacturing and processing groups and export trading corporation Bosai Minerals Group (or Nanchuan Minerals) has restarted production at its alumina refinery plant in Xianfeng, reported Shanghai Metals Market.</p> <p>The refinery, which brought down its production...
China alumina production to rise supported by domestic demand
<p style="text-align: left;">As per preliminary production data released by Shanghai Metals Market in their latest survey report, China's alumina output in December rose 17.4 per cent year-over-year to total at 5471 thousand tonnes. This was higher by 4.28 per cent from the November output volume...
Integrated aluminium companies to benefit from rising alumina prices
<p>Alumina prices driven by growing Chinese demand and tight supply climbed significantly to touch US$351 per tonne in 2016- the highest in the last two years. The price graph picked up momentum from August onward with the upturn in all commodity prices. According to the commodities forecast,...
Noranda Alumina signs alumina supply agreement with Century Aluminum
<p>Noranda Alumina confirmed that the company has secured a long term agreement with the Century Aluminum to supply smelters in Hawesville and Sebree, Kentucky with smelter grade alumina.<br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"...
USA alumina export drops 38% YOY during third quarter 2016
<p>According to USGS’ recently published bauxite and alumina industry survey for the Third Quarter 2016, imports of alumina during the third quarter of 2016 were 315,000 tons. This records a 3% increase from those in the second quarter but 20% drop from the third quarter of 2015. The general...
Scarcity of alumina poses hurdles to the development of Iran’s aluminium industry
<p>Iran has about 350,000 tons of yearly aluminium output capacity and the country is endowed with potential for the development of a successful aluminium industry. The country has cheap power as it is endowed with immense natural gas reserves. Qualified yet cheap labour force, production...
India remains top importer of alumina from China
<p>China is one of the world’s top alumina producers and a leading supplier of alumina to the global primary aluminium industry. China has around 60 million tonnes of alumina capacity but produced around 47.3 million tonnes of the aluminium-making ingredient from January to October last year....
Alumina price touches two-year high at US$351/t in 2016
<p>Alumina prices, buoyed by the China factor, climbed significantly to touch US$351 per tonne in 2016- the highest in the last two years. The price escalation which started in January 2016, after a few months' initial volatility, picked up momentum from August onward. Since then, the commodity...
The UAE's total alumina imports is estimated to decline 12.4% YOY in 2016
<p>The United Arab Emirates has grown over the years from essentially an oil-based economy to the world's fourth largest aluminium producing country, thanks to Emirates Global Aluminium's (EGA) contribution as major aluminium manufacturer of the region. The industrial champion with two operating...
Rewind 2016: Top headlines of the global alumina industry
<p>2016 has been a reasonably good year for alumina. The commodity, unlike other components in the entire cyclical asset basket, witnessed a sustained demand push all through, thanks to a global deficit market and prices kept rising supported by supply concerns arising mainly out of China. There...
Nalco expects its alumina and aluminium output to rise in FY 2016/17
<p>National Aluminium Company (Nalco) expects its aluminium output to rise 3.5% by the end of FY 2016/17 in the face of growing domestic consumption and rising prices, as told by NALCO Chairman Tapan Kumar Chand to Reuters.<br /><br />The state owned company will end the fiscal year with an...
Environmental inspections trigger massive production cuts among China aluminium producers
<p>China government sent environmental protection teams to seven regions from November 24 to 30 to supervise environmental protection work, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Hubei, Chongqing, Shaanxi and Gansu. SMM conducted a survey to find out the impact of the inspections on smelter...
