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...
Ireland withholds Aughinish Alumina meeting notes amid Russia export review
Ireland’s Department of Enterprise has withheld the release records of discussions between its secretary general and Aughinish Alumina management, citing “highly confidential information” shared by the company. The decision comes as scrutiny intensifies over the Limerick refinery’s alumina exports...
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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,...
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...
A cyclone may hit Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine in Australia
A cyclone is expected to hit the north coast of Australia’s Queensland state Weipa on Tuesday and affect Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine while disrupting shipping, reported the weather bureau. The Port of Weipa, which handles Rio’s bauxite mine as well as general cargo, remained shut for the third...
27 Jamaican engineers complete JISCO-hosted training in Bayer process technology and refinery operations
According to a report, twenty-seven of the fifty-two young Jamaican engineers who were selected for further study and training in China last March by JISCO Alpart successfully completed the segment of the course and returned to the island on December 24. The batch of 27 was trained in the Bayer...
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...
Deborah O’Toole Buys 8,000 Shares of Alumina Limited (AWC) Stock
Alumina Limited (ASX:AWC) insider Deborah O’Toole purchased 8,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, December 19th. The stock was bought at an average cost of A$2.25 ($1.60) per share, with a total value of A$18,000.00 ($12,765.96). ASX AWC opened at A$2.26 ($1.60) on...
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...
Noranda alumina commissions last phase of the CGA expansion in its Gramercy refinery
Noranda Alumina updates through a press release that it continues to expand the chemical grade alumina (CGA) capabilities of its Gramercy refinery in Louisiana. It has commissioned a new hydrate dryer and dense phase pneumatic conveying system during the final phase of a CGA expansion project...
Vedanta to restrain its alumina imports to 500,000 tonnes by FY21
According to a report, Vedanta Limited is aiming to curb its alumina imports to 500,000 tonnes a year by the financial year 2021. Per the record, the company imports more than two million tonnes of alumina to power its smelters at Jharsuguda and Korba because of having no sufficient captive bauxite...
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...
Rio Tinto’s first bauxite shipment arrives in Gladstone
The first shipment of bauxite from Rio Tinto’s $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project in Queensland has arrived at the Port of Gladstone. More than 80,000 tonnes of bauxite were loaded onto the vessel RTM Weipa for departure from the Western Cape York Peninsula on December 3, achieved six weeks ahead...
Alcoa secures three new gas supply contracts for Western Australia alumina refineries
Alcoa of Australia has reportedly acquired three new gas supply agreements. All three agreements, together, will supply close to 25 per cent of the company’s requirements in Western Australia from 2020. The agreements with BHP, Woodside, and Chevron, coupled with other gas supply contracts,...
EGA completes commissioning of the calcination section of its Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced the completion of commissioning process of the calcination section of its alumina refinery at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. This involved a carefully-planned process of testing equipment and systems in a new plant before start-up. This makes the calcination...
Xinjiang reveals its plan to build US$ 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...
Vedanta to ramp up downstream capacity by 25% to combat import and boost revenue
Looking at the surge in imports, metals and mining conglomerate Vedanta Ltd has strategized a plan to raise its downstream products output by 25 per cent in the October-March period. As U.S. has restricted import of aluminium and aluminium products from China, the country has redirected its exports...
Rio Tinto loads first shipment of bauxite from Amrun mine
Rio Tinto has loaded first shipment of bauxite from its US$1.9 billion Amrun project in Queensland, six weeks ahead of schedule. More than 80,000 tonnes of bauxite are expected to arrive at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun alumina refinery in Gladstone next week. Rio Tinto Aluminium chief executive Alf Barrios...
