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’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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A00 aluminium ingot price registers an increase after five days of fall. Ingot price on Friday, 24 May 2019 increased from RMB14160 per tonne to RMB14230 per tonne. This marks a growth of RMB70 per tonne or 0.49 per cent. The average price is expected to range at RMB14210-14250 per tonne today....
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the A00 aluminium ingot price has extended downfall today, on May 21, to RMB 14,240 per tonne. This is the third consecutive decline since May 17. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 14,220 per tonne and RMB 14,260 per tonne. In Foshan, Tianjin...
The aluminium industry in South Africa is one of the driving forces of the country’s economy. Along with the economic impact and contribution to the fiscus, the industry generates significant foreign exchange revenues and provides an estimated 11,600 employees in the sector with decent jobs....
The global trade data suggest that the Netherlands will import 21% more alumina in 2019 than last year. The country’s import of alumina came in at 1193453 tonnes last year. Jamaica was the top supplier of alumina to the country in 2018, according to recent statistics. Jamaica’s export to the...
According to the latest media report, Supreme Court admits NALCO’s petition for hearing on alumina sales tender to domestic customers. It was earlier reported that Nalco urged the Supreme Court to challenge Odisha High Court for allowing Vedanta’s Jharsugda unit's participation in the tender...
A navratna CPSE National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has reportedly urged the Supreme Court to challenge Odisha High Court for allowing Vedanta’s Jharsugda unit's participation in the tender floated by Nalco for the sale of surplus alumina. Nalco pointed out that according to policy the...
As shown by the latest US Geological Survey latest release on Bauxite and Alumina in the Fourth Quarter 2018, imports of alumina by the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2018 dropped to 273,000 tonnes from 441,000 tonnes in third quarter of 2018. The volume was 38% less than those in the third quarter...
The Odisha High Court has reportedly granted permission to the mining giant Vedanta to participate in the tender floated by state-run navaratna company NALCO for sale of surplus alumina. This judgement from the Odisha High Court is expected to provide a major relief to Vedanta. The aluminium major...
According to the latest data from China Customs, China’s alumina exports in February came in at 3,443 tonnes, after declining 139,000 tonnes from January. This data represents that China’s alumina exports in January 2019 had pegged at 142,443 tonnes. {newsStudioGallery} China Customs data found...
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) has reportedly started shipping alumina from Kazakhstan into northwest China’s Xinjiang region. The news came after four people with knowledge of the matter said last week. However, purchases of alumina from Kazakhstan are a rare occurrence in China. According to...
GB Railfreight announced that they would be continuing their successful partnership with Liberty British Aluminium. Both the companies have agreed to extend their contract for the next three years. According to the extended contract, GBRf class 66 locomotives will bring alumina for Liberty British...
According to the global export-import data, India’s estimated aluminium imports from Australia and Vietnam in 2018 grew year-on-year in tandem with the rise of the country’s total alumina imports. In 2017, India had imported 1.50 million tonnes of alumina from Australia and 339,459 tonnes from...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, China produced 6.13 million tonnes of alumina (metallurgical grade) in January, an increase of 7.4% from a year ago. The average daily output stood at 198,000 tonnes, down 1,000 tonnes from 199,000 tonnes in December 2018. Gas installation issues at Chiping...
With seven refineries operating, Australia is the world’s second largest producer and exporter of alumina. It mostly produces smelter grade alumina for both the domestic and export markets and accounts for 22 per cent of the global production. Rio Tinto, Alcoa, South32 are some of the few...
Aluminium has been the most talked-about non-ferrous metal in the year 2018 for many reasons. New tariffs, sanctions, trade wars on one hand; and developments and expansions on the other across the entire value chain emerged as non-avoidable circumstances in the year gone by. To start with, the...
Being one of the world’s top aluminiumproducing countries, the United Arab Emirates’ import of alumina is expected to rise in 2019 after a year-on-year drop till last year. According to our third-party data, the UAE in 2016 had imported 1.67 million tonnes and from then on the volume dropped...
Vietnam, the emerging alumina producing hub on the shores of the South China Sea, has recorded an increase in its offshore alumina sales over the last three years. In fact, as suggested by the available international trade data, the alumina export by Vietnam has become more than double since 2015....
China exported 177,430 tonnes of alumina in December, down 37.9 per cent month-on-month. The country’s export of alumina was at 285,696 tonnes in November. The volume was up more than 3,700 per cent from December 2017. China’s total exports of alumina in 2018 stood at 1.46 million tonnes, according...
