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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Paulwell to make major bauxite announcement today
There are indications that a decision has been reached regarding the reopening of mining and refining operations at St Elizabeth-based alumina producers Alpart by UC RUSAL. In an advisory on Friday, the Mining Ministry says portfolio minister Phillip Paulwell is to provide an update of major...
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...
Saudi Arabia quickly emerges as a competitor in the aluminium industry
Saudi Arabia may have been late to build an aluminium industry compared with the other countries in the GCC, but it is now putting the finishing touches on an integrated production chain that surpasses anything else in the region. A $10.8bn aluminium complex is nearing completion at Ras al-Khair on...
RPPML successfully develops indigenous agitator for pre-desilication tanks in alumina refinery of NALCO, Damanjodi
RPPML has successfully developed indigenous critical agitator for pre-desilication tank size 8000 mm dia X 14000 mm ht. and supplied to NALCO, Damanjodi vide their development Order No. REF /MMP /5000000015 /217/4500005442 dated 09.02.2011, imposing stringent criteria for performance test and for...
UC RUSAL announces the 100% consolidation of WINDALCO
UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces that it has completed its transaction to obtain the remaining 7% of the property rights of West Indies Alumina Company (WINDALCO). As a result, RUSAL now owns 100% of the complex. The relevant agreement was reached and signed between RUSAL...
Saudi- Maaden increases investment in aluminium
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) is playing a key role by developing the mining sector as the third pillar of Saudi industry beyond oil and petrochemicals. Through its investments Maaden is turning the Kingdom into a major player in global markets for phosphate, aluminum, gold, copper and...
The Indonesia ban attracting upstream investments
The Indonesian constitutional court rejected the challenge raised by the mining companies regarding the country’s ban on raw materials export which was imposed in January. The ban on mineral ores imposed on 12th January was to channel investments in the direction of mineral processing in the...
Bauxite mining supporters come together to push their case
Breaking their silence over stiff opposition to bauxite mining, several technical and mining experts and investors for the first time met in the city recently to justify exploration of bauxite ore in parts of Eastern Ghats with eco-friendly technologies. Their presence in large number, including...
Sedgman wins Alcoa Kwinana contract
Sedgman has won the EPC contract for Alcoa's Kwinana filtration plant. The $59.8 million contract will see Sedgman EPC work as the main integrating contractor for the alumina refinery in WA. According to Sedgman "when complete the filtration plant will produce lower moisture content bauxite residue...
EGA plans to make investments worth $5 billion in upstream aluminium by 2020
UAE-based Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) is bullish about the global aluminium market and plans a capital expenditure of $5 billion by 2020, said the chief executive of the company. An official gave a review of the two smelters making up EGA – Dubal and Emal – and said the company was taking care...
BHP demerger progressing very, very well : Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr, the CEO-elect for the proposed new company ( Newco) said in a press conference on Monday that the progress of the BHP demerger is going “very, very well.” They are now at a stage of seeking approvals from Australia, South Africa and other jurisdictions at the same time engaging with...
Jamaica’s mining minister gives Rusal ultimatum to restart plant
The Mining Minister of Jamaica, Phillip Paulwell has given Rusal UC an ultimatum to restart the mothballed Alpart bauxite/alumina plant in Nain, St Elizabeth by December 31 or else there would be consequences. Last Wednesday, Paulwell addressing the audience at the Young Entrepreneurs meet telling...
Anrak Aluminium says may get govt approval for bauxite project
Anrak Aluminium is optimistic of securing government approval to mine bauxite in three to four months, a company official said on Wednesday, possibly ending a three-year wait. "We are hopeful of getting approval in three to four months," Hariharan Mahadevan, president of projects at Anrak, told an...
Russian firm set to build $1.5b mineral facilities
Russia’s investment and industrial group Vi Holding may pour around US$1.5 billion into building mineral processing facilities in Indonesia, a Russian minister says. The projects would comprise a $1 billion alumina refinery and a $500 million ferronickel smelter, Russian Industry and Trade Minister...
Bauxite Resources looks to establish a new alumina refinery in Western Australia
Global demand for bauxite seems to be on the rise again according to the head of a West Australian exploration company. Bauxite Resources executive director and CEO Peter Canterbury said global demand for aluminium is a positive for the mining sector in the south west of the state, despite a recent...
Russian-based Vi Holding to invest $500 million in Indonesian refinery
Russian Trade Minister, Denis Manturov, reported to Reuters on Tuesday that the Russian-based industrial group named Vi Holding will be investing $500 million in an alumina refinery in Indonesia, which can be built in the next three to four years. The highly debated mineral export ban in Indonesia...
Prima Resources updates on Bauxite Residue Reclamation for Gove Alumina Project
Prima Resources held a preliminary meeting in Darwin with Nhulunbuy Indigenous Group/Company regarding the future of the Bauxite Residue Storage Area and the Alumina Refinery at Gove currently owned by Rio Tinto. It was decided that discussions take place with the possibility of Rio Tinto returning...
GMDC acquires 100 hectares of land for alumina plant in Kutch
Mining major Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) has acquired land in excess of 100 hectares for the first phase of an alumina plant and aluminium smelter plant, which would be set up in joint venture with Navratna Public Sector Unit (PSU) National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) at...
