Alcoa strikes $3.1b cash-and-stock deal for South32’s key aluminium assets
Alcoa Corporation is acquiring South32’s key aluminium assets in a USD 3.1 billion deal in cash plus 17,008,960 Alcoa shares, expanding its upstream aluminium portfolio across Australia, Brazil and South Africa. The transaction will also give South32 and its shareholders an equity interest in the...
Rio Tinto adds Aurukun's 8 tpa bauxite opportunity to growing Cape York pipeline
The acquisition gives Rio Tinto control of a major undeveloped Cape York resource as it expands its existing Weipa operations and advances new mining areas. Rio Tinto is expanding its Cape York bauxite portfolio by acquiring the Aurukun bauxite project from Glencore and Mitsubishi, adding a...
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Emeco announces agreement to sell surplus mining equipment
The leading mining solution provider in Australia, Emeco has sealed a deal for dispersal services with a renowned industrial asset disposition and management company. By the agreement, Emeco teams with the auctioneer to get competitive marketing and sales solutions regarding dispersing heavy...
Ullrich Aluminium's acquisition for NZ$165 million puts Vulcan Steel on the path to a sustainable future
Vulcan Steel has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to acquire Ullrich Aluminium for NZ$165 million (A$148.63 million) to diversify into a metal that weighs just one-third as much as stainless steel. Vulcan gained 100 per cent of the aluminium distributor. Net debt of NZ$34 million...
Rio Tinto resolves tax dispute with Australian Taxation Office
Rio Tinto has acknowledged and managed disputes with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) over all the impending tax issues. This decree will put a cap on the duel over interests on singular loans utilised to settle payments for an intragroup dividend in 2015. This agreement also eases the tension...
SRG Global wins $80 million mining contract in Australia
The leading drill and blast contractor serving the mining industry, SRG Global has fastened a noteworthy new contract from its existing Tier 1 client valued at around $80 million. The existing SRG’s agreement with South32 gets an extension for another two years for works at the Worsley Alumina’s...
ABx subsidiary Alcore amplifies the construction of three reactors in Central Coast to produce aluminium fluoride
Alcore the brainchild of ABx Group has successfully authorised the construction of three laboratory reactors in its quest to yield a high-value essential material, aluminium fluoride used in aluminium smelting extracted from a smelter residue. These recently commissioned reactors are situated at a...
The Australian Aluminium Council welcomes ABx group, the third member of the bauxite exploration class
On July 19, the Australian Aluminium Council announced the joining of ABx Group (ABx) as its new council member. The businesses of bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting, and downstream processing are all represented in Australia by the Australian Aluminium Council. The Sunrise...
Rio Tinto announces a 4% Q-o-Q rise in bauxite production to 14.1 Mt in 2Q2022, attributing to strong operations at Weipa
Rio Tinto Group, an Anglo-Australian multinational metals and mining company, has announced the second quarter results of 2022, revealing a 4 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase and a 3 per cent year-on-year rise in bauxite production to 14.1 million tonnes. According to the mining group, total...
ADC revokes anti-dumping duties on aluminium profiles imported from Vietnam and Malaysia
According to the Department of Industry and Trade, the Australia Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) completed its final review of the anti-dumping tax period for aluminium profiles from Vietnam and Malaysia. The Australian Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) has decided not to continue charging antidumping...
Aloft Holdings may acquire Alcoa’s Portland Aluminium smelter in Australia
The Alcoa-owned Portland Aluminium smelter, Australia's second-largest aluminium producer, is in talks with Aloft Holdings, a Dutch company run by an Australian investment banker. According to our report, people familiar with the situation stated, that Aloft Holdings which was floated in November...
Boeing signs $140,000 purchase order with AML3D for 3D printed aluminium components
Australia-based AML3D has bagged a purchase order worth US$140,000 to develop and manufacture 3D printed aluminium components from the Boeing Company in St. Louis, Missouri. The former will provide Boeing with essential high-strength aluminium components and structural items usually installed as...
Metro Mining plans to elevate Bauxite Hill’s production capacity by 75%
The Australian exploration and mining company, Metro Mining has announced its plans to augment the annual bauxite production capacity at the Bauxite Hills Mine from 4 million to 7 million wet metric tonnes per annum (M WMT pa) in 2023. The Bauxite Hills Mine has been operating in Western Cape York...
China’s A00 aluminium ingot price augments by RMB110/t midweek closing at RMB19370/t; Australian alumina FOB price drops by US$3/t
A00 aluminium ingot price has further heightened by RMB 110 per tonne for the third consecutive day to come in at RMB 19,370 per tonne, as recorded by the Shanghai Metals Market on Wednesday, June 29. The average prices are expected to range between RMB 19,350 per tonne and RMB 19,390 per tonne,...
Alpha HPA temporarily closes its Gladstone facility for up-gradation
The Australian supplier of high purity aluminium products, Alpha HPA, wishes to make at least 10,000 tonnes of HPA each year and additional high purity components utilising its HPA refining technology and solvent extraction procedure. Though Alpha is working towards three orders in Brisbane...
The Australian Aluminium Council welcomes Metro Mining Limited as the newest member
Metro Mining Limited (Metro) has been registered as the latest member of the Australian Aluminium Council, representing Australia’s bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and downstream processing industries. Globally acknowledged Western Cape York bauxite region in Queensland houses...
ChemX registers entry at the final stage of its HPA micro facility in Western Australia
ChemX Materials, one of the world’s most innovative developers of High Purity Alumina (HPA), is passing through the final stage of integrated process commissioning of its HiPurA high purity alumina (HPA) micro plant in Western Australia. The HiPurA process developed by ChemX is supposed to produce...
HPA producer Altech signs final agreement for battery plant construction
Altech Chemicals has signed an agreement of contract with the German developer Kuttner GmbH aiming to constitute high purity alumina or ‘HPA’ coating pilot plant in Saxony, a German state. The glazing method by the company utilises graphite and silicone particles to condition anode materials,...
Green critics urge EPA to block South32’s Worsley bauxite and alumina project
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has been urged to reject South32's plans to expand its Worsley bauxite and alumina project in Western Australia’s (WA) South West which would clear more than 4000 hectares of native vegetation. The updated plan, which the EPA made available for public...
Fleet Space urges Konica Minolta to secure 3D printers using aluminium from US-based 3D Systems
Australian small satellite developing company and IoT services provider Fleet Space has approached Japan-based Konica Minolta to provide additive manufacturing units from 3D Systems, a Carolina-based technology company for the betterment of its onshore manufacturing ability. Konica Minolta 3D...
