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 net loss for the year 2014
Australia’s Alumina Limited reported a net loss of $US 98.3 million for the year 2014 ending in December while in 2013, the company had reported a profit of $US 500,000. Two major changes for the company in 2014 have been the sale of stakes in Jamaica’s Jamalco refinery and the closure of Point...
Orbite selected for $4.5M grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC)
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce today that it has been selected to receive up to $4.5M in non-dilutive funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to be applied towards Orbite's technology development, demonstration and commercialization related to the processing of...
Vietnam's Alumina output to jump in 2015 on new plant
Vietnam's alumina output will jump this year as a processing plant will become operational later in the year while the Tan Rai complex, the country's only operational facility, will raise output by 11 percent, the Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper reported, citing the investor of the projects....
Antam announces the commencement of the alumina plant in Tayan
Aneka Tambang, Indonesia’s state-controlled miner announced on Monday that the $490 million chemical-grade alumina plant in Tayan, West Kalimantan has started its commercial operations. Since mineral export was banned in the country, the company sought to diversify its operations and boost the...
Iran reports its ten-month aluminium production figures
In the first ten months of the current Iranian calendar year, that is from March 21, 2014 to January 20, 2015, the country produced 293,595 tons of ingots, adding 30,595 tons in the month of December, 2014. These figures show a rise of 893 tons when compared to the production output seen last year...
Jinjiang Group to build 2 million-tpy alumina using coal ash in Inner Mongolia
Jinjiang Group inked an agreement with the government of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, over 2 million-tpy alumina production from coal ash, a waste of byproduct from thermal power generation, cnmn website reported today. Thermal power plants in Hohhot generate up to over 10 million mt of alumina-rich...
China’s bauxite imports from Australia peak at 1.87 million tons in Dec. 2014
China’s bauxite imports from Australia peaked at 1.87 million tonnes in December 2014, underscoring the country’s role as top supplier after Indonesia banned exports. Rising alumina production in China and growing alumina consumption from aluminum smelters boosted demand for bauxite, SMM...
UC Rusal announces fourth quarter and full year 2014 operating results
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces its operating results for the fourth quarter and full year 2014. Key highlights • Total aluminium production amounted to 3,601 thousand tonnes in FY14 (-7% YoY) and 915 thousand tonnes in 4Q14 (+1% QoQ). • Share of value-added products...
China’s alumina imports surged again in December
China’s aluminium imports continue to surge, rising another 44% from the previous month and 83.7% from last year importing a total of 638,586 tonnes of alumina in December, according to the latest customs data. Australia, one of China’s biggest suppliers, alone contributed 399,121 tonnes in...
China demand for Malaysian bauxite to grow further
China’s demand for Malaysian bauxite is poised to grow further in the near term on increasing alumina production, Shanghai Metals Market predicts. Lubei Enterprise Group is scheduled to reopen its 500,000-tpy alumina project next month, and Weiqiao Pioneering Group may ramp up alumina production,...
Worsley refinery output rises by 3% in Q4 2014
The Worsley refinery located in Western Australia saw a 3% increase in alumina production in the fourth quarter of 2014 compared to the previous year while BHP Billiton, who owns 86% stakes in Worsley has had an overall 13% quarter-on-quarter rise in alumina output in the fourth quarter of 2014 to...
China alumina production to slow down on cash shortage Q1 2015
Cash shortages caused many new alumina projects to be shelved or delayed in 2014, and should continue to affect production in Q1 2015, Shanghai Metals Market foresees. China’s alumina output rose 8.2% from a year ago to 4.54 million tonnes in December 2014, SMM data showed. High margins inspired...
Alcoa’s good results likely to boost Alumina's performance
With US aluminium production giant returning to profit with the Q4 results, the price of aluminium has seen a boost which has benefitted the Australian based company named Alumina. Alumina is in fact directly affected by Alcoa’s results as the two of them jointly own Alcoa World Alumina and...
Orbite receives notice of allowance for first red mud monetization patent
Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued a notice of allowance for patent application No. 2,857,574, pertaining to Processes for Treating Red Mud. Orbite has paid the requisite fees and expects patent issuance within CIPO's usual...
China alumina output hits record high of 4.4 Mln tonnes in Nov. 2014
China’s alumina production hit record high of 4.4 million tonnes in November, SMM data showed. Strong alumina prices, high profit and strong demand from northeast China gave alumina refineries incentive to produce. Operating rates at Chinese alumina refineries rose 5 percentage points...
Chinese alumina imports dip by 40.9% in November year-on-year
The latest Chinese custom data reveals that the country’s month-on-month alumina imports in November have gone up by 63% to 443,326 tonnes although when compared to November 2013, the imports have fallen 40.9%. Brazil is one of the major suppliers, exporting 98,400 tonnes of alumina which is twice...
Refinery at Ma’aden-Alcoa joint venture produces first alumina from Saudi Bauxite
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) and lightweight metals leader Alcoa today announced that the alumina refinery at their joint venture aluminum complex in Saudi Arabia has successfully produced its first alumina from Saudi Arabian bauxite. The alumina refinery at Ras Al Khair is the first...
Hudson produces specialty grade calcined alumina using White Mountain Anorthosite
Hudson Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has produced calcined alumina suited to specialty non-metallurgical applications using the calcium feldspar anorthosite from its White Mountain Project in Greenland. Specialty grades of alumina (such as calcined, white fused and tabular alumina)...
