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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Cytec to present on new hydrate flocculant for the alumina industry at ISCOBA
Cytec Industries Inc. will participate at ISCOBA in Dubai, UAE taking place November 29 - December 1. Cytec will present Performance Evaluations of CYFLOC® HF Series New Dextran Based Hydrate Flocculant for The Alumina Industry. Renata Vinhas, Cytec Application Engineer, will discuss how Cytec’s...
Experts discuss bauxite-alumina technology improvements on 2nd day of IBAAS 2015
On 26th November, the 2nd day of the 4th IBAAS conference at Suzhou, about 35 papers in 3 parallel sessions were presented to showcase the developments in China and other countries. About 12 presentations were made in bauxite-alumina session, 10 on aluminium smelting and 13 on downstream...
Vedanta's cumulative loss on Odisha refinery crosses INR 4,000 cr
Diversified metals and mining major Vedanta Ltd has incurred a cumulative loss of INR 4299 core (till October end) on its one million tonne Lanjigarh alumina refinery since the beginning of commercial operations in August 2007. Though Vedanta recently de-rated capacity of the refinery by 50 per...
Vedanta seeks Indian government's help to tide over raw material crisis
Faced with acute raw material shortage for its refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, the Vedanta Group on Tuesday requested the Odisha Government to honour the MoU which assures supply of 150 million tonnes of bauxite for its processing facility in the State. Chief Operating Officer (COO) of...
Nalco's Damanjodi alumina refinery expansion plan forwarded to HLCA
The State Government on Friday, last week, approved five projects with an investment proposal of `635 crore in various sectors to create more employment opportunities at a time when the number of unemployed has crossed 10 lakh in Odisha. The five projects were accorded in-principle approval at the...
Uncertainty hovers around alumina refinery projects in AP
Uncertainty hovering around the State government’s stand on bauxite mining for a decade or so are sending wrong signals to the efforts to showcase Andhra Pradesh as an investment destination, say investors. The State signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jindal South West Aluminium...
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...
Emirates Global Aluminium sees Guinea feasibility study ready by Q1 2016
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) expects to complete a feasibility study for its bauxite mine and alumina refinery project in Guinea by the first quarter of next year, its chief executive said on Sunday, November 15. "We are already in, we just need (to know) how much we are going to budget, how...
Nalco to engage transaction advisor for merchant mining
Aluminium major National Aluminium Company (Nalco) would soon appoint a transaction advisor to decide the modalities of its proposed foray into merchant mining. "We have decided to foray into merchant mining to tap the huge potential offered by a mineral rich state like Odisha. Nalco is gong to...
Nalco to set up 1 mtpa refinery plant in Odisha
Aluminium major Nalco will set up a one million tonnes a year alumina refinery plant in Odisha as part of its expansion plan, union mines secretary Balvinder Kumar said on Monday. The company would set up the plant at Damanjodi in Koraput district with an investment of Rs.5,600 crore, he added. The...
Negotiations underway amongst top Chinese companies for purchase of Alpart
According to the industry sources, negotiations are ongoing for purchase of Alpart alumina plant at Nain, St Elizabeth by leading Chinese metals company, Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Company (JISCO) from Russian owners UC Rusal. The price of the 46-years old Alpart plant, established in 1969 is...
Nalco updates on its US$2.8bn venture in Iran or Oman
National Aluminium Company Ltd. (Nalco) was earlier reported to have planned to invest US$2.80 billion to build an integrated aluminium roject in either Iran or Oman. In a recent update, the company sources divulged that the proposed 5 lakh tonne-per-year smelter, which will also include a captive...
Orbite provides update on patents related to alumina refining technology
Orbite Technologies Inc. announced that it has received patent titled "Methods for Separating Iron Ions from Aluminum Ions" from IP Australia. The company has also been notified of the following: • Patent application No. 14/005,885 titled "Processes for Recovering Rare Earth Elements from...
Odisha pitches for Pottangi bauxite mines allocation for Nalco; fresh bid for Niyamgiri on cards
Indian aluminium major National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has inched closer in its bid to bag the Pottangi bauxite deposits with the Odisha government writing to the Union mines ministry to allocate the mines in favour of the central PSU. "We have already written to the Centre to allocate Pottangi...
Arabal participants to visit Ma’aden projects at Ras Al-Khair
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) will organize a tour of its integrated aluminium facility for attendees of the Arabal conference taking place 15 – 17 November at Dhahran International Exhibitions Center in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The tour is intended to familiarize attendees...
Norsk Hydro's Pará port facilities may close for clean-up, operations unaffected
Brazil’s Federal and State Public Attorneys in Pará and the State Public Defender has requested that the Brazilian federal court halt activities at the Vila do Conde port to clean up after a ship, carrying cattle, capsized in the port on October 6. Hydro’s operations at the nearby Albras and...
ANTAM and INALUM forms a JV to develop smelter grade alumina refinery
PT ANTAM Tbk and PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (INALUM) announced that they have agreed to set up a joint venture company to develop and operate Smelter Grade Alumina Refinery (SGAR). Construction of the SGAR in its proposed location in West Kalimanta, is to start in 2016; operations at the plant...
Odisha wants Niyamgiri gram sabha polls again to revive bauxite mining
To revive the beleaguered Niyamgiri bauxite mining project in south Odisha, the state government has written to the Union ministry of environment and forests, proposing that gram sabhas in the area be again polled for approval. The mining plan was scrapped two years earlier, after all 12 gram...
