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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Nalco alumina refinery bags Business Excellence Star Recognition Award
The Alumina Refinery of National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has bagged the prestigious Business Excellence Star Recognition Award. Institute of Quality, CII has adjudged NALCO as the “Leader in Process Industries, for Excellence in Operations Management”. Appreciating the concerted efforts...
China makes breakthrough in bauxite flotation technology
China's Zhengzhou Mineral Utilization Research Institute has been awarded national intellectual property for its invention of inhibitor that effectively separates diaspore from silicon-containing substances. Diaspore is one of the three component minerals of the economically important aluminum ore...
China finds great potential in coal ash stockpiles for alumina extraction
There is great potential to extract alumina from coal ash in China, as the country boasts the world’s top generator of the material. China is expected to produce 620 million tonnes of coal ash, a byproduct of thermal power generation, in 2015, making it the world’s top producer, said Cui Yuansheng,...
Alcoa foresees 1 million mt global alumina deficit in 2016
Lightweight metals leader Alcoa reported progress on the company’s performance against three-year financial targets and its continuing transformation as it prepares to separate into two industry-leading, publicly-traded companies. The company delivered the update at its 2015 Investor Day event in...
China alumina imports down 6.80% MoM in September
China imported 372,000 million tonnes (mt) of alumina in September, down 6.80% MoM, but up 9.79% YoY, customs data showed. Despite falling import prices, import volumes did not grow significantly, due to rising port stocks and weaker demand from aluminum smelters. China imported 3.14 million mt of...
Researchers use alumina to develop nearly 'unbreakable' glass
In a revolutionary breakthrough, Japanese researchers have developed a new type of glass that is nearly unbreakable and is said to be as strong as steel. To make glass tougher, alumina- an oxide of aluminium and silicon dioxide- is used. However, in the past, when researchers tried building strong...
UC RUSAL posts alumina production growth in third quarter 2015
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, has announced its operating results for the third quarter 2015. Alumina production for the quarter ended September 30 totaled 1,870 thousand tonnes (+2.8% QoQ). Alumina production for the first nine months of the current financial year stood at 5,496...
Update: South32 reports 10 percent increase in alumina output in Q1
South32 has reported a 10 percent jump in first quarter alumina output after maintenance work was completed in Australia. Production in the three months to September 30 was 1.36 million metric tons, from 1.24 million tons a year earlier, when the assets were operated by BHP, the Perth-based company...
Norsk Hydro reports record bauxite production in Q3
Hydro's underlying earnings before financial items and tax declined to NOK 2,215 million in the third quarter from NOK 2,667 million in the second quarter of 2015. Weaker alumina and aluminium prices and premiums weighed on results, while strong rolled products sales and record bauxite production...
South32 lifts coal, alumina production
South32 has delivered modest lifts in first-quarter alumina and coal production, and says it’s progressing well with plans to strip further costs out of its business as the resources sector continues to grapple with downbeat operating conditions. The mining group (S32), which was spun off from BHP...
Alcoa’s alumina segment generates best profitability since 2007
Alcoa is the largest global bauxite and alumina producer, with a strong first quartile cost position in both businesses. Alcoa reports the earnings of its bauxite mining and alumina refining business under its Alumina segment. The segment supplies alumina to Alcoa’s Primary Metals segment as well...
UC Rusal to produce alumina from Siberian clay
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, develops acid technology for alumina production of non-bauxite raw materials. The technology will allow the production of alumina using domestic kaolin clay as a substitution to imported bauxites. The new technology will significantly boost RUSAL...
Alpart alumina refinery- technical and equipment auditor at work
A technical and equipment infrastructure review of the alumina refinery, Rusal Alpart Jamaica, is being conducted as part of pre-preparatory work for the plant’s scheduled reopening in December 2016. Audit representatives from UC Rusal's Moscow office, and elsewhere in Europe and Australia are...
Vedanta releases production updates for Q2 and H1 ended 30 Sept 2015
Vedanta Resources Plc., the diversified metals and minerals conglomerate, announced its production results for the second quarter and half year ended 30 September 2015 on Friday, October 10. The company reported stable volumes from the existing smelters; updated on cost reduction initiatives that...
China's nonferrous metal output up 9.4% In Jan-Aug
The output of the ten nonferrous metals gained 9.4% from a year earlier to 33.87 million tons in the first eight months of this year, according to the latest report released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). According to the statistics, the country's aluminium electrolytic...
Clarendon Alumina Production continues losing money
Clarendon Alumina Production Limited (CAP) advises that it has produced 2015 accounts but that these have not yet been laid before the annual general meeting or Parliament. It is unclear how the Government of Jamaica, and in particular, the otherwise progressive Ministry of Finance, does not have a...
Tabular alumina producer Aluchem to receive Business of the Year Award
Aluchem has been one of the steady employers of the Jackson area in the state of Mississippi for 20 years, making a once abandoned basic brick plant an important source of employment and tabular alumina production. As an acknowledgement of this entrepreneurial activity, Aluchem, located on Beaver...
Alcoa to scale up production at its Pinjarra alumina refinery
Alcoa has flagged a move to expand production at its Pinjarra refinery by up to 20 per cent, winning environmental approval to push the facility’s total alumina output to five million tonnes a year. The Environmental Protection Authority last month ticked off on an Alcoa application to amend...
