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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GMG announces the production of their first graphene aluminium ion battery in cell format
On December 9, Australian based Graphene Manufacturing Group Ltd. (TSXV: GMG) (FSE: 0GF) ("GMG” or the "Company") announced that the pilot production and testing plant (“Battery Pilot Plant”) for its G+AI Batteries is now operational. GMG is a clean-tech firm located in Australia that manufactures...
China’s aluminium industry becomes highly reliant on foreign supply for bauxite
China's aluminium sector, the world's largest, is growing increasingly reliant on foreign supply of the ore needed to produce the metal, highlighting the country's long-term reliance on imported raw materials. Alumina, an intermediate substance created from bauxite ore, is used to make the...
Alcore begins construction of pilot plant to recover fluorine from aluminium smelter waste
The developer of high technology businesses, ABx Group’s 87% owned chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore starts off the construction of a pilot plant, which will focus to produce precursor chemicals used to recover fluorine from aluminium smelter waste termed as “excess bath”. The Sydney, Australia...
Portland aluminium smelter to become country’s first smelter to run on renewable energy
Alinta Energy, an Australian energy business, has announced intentions to develop a 1GW wind farm 10 kilometres off the coast of Portland, Victoria. The project would make the Portland aluminium smelter one of the country's first to run entirely on renewable energy. It will provide energy to the...
Metro Mining signs bauxite deal with Xiangsen Aluminium worth 5 million WMT for the next 3 years
Metro Mining Ltd. of Australia stated last week that it has enlarged and extended its 'Strategic Cooperation Agreement' with Xiamen Xiangsen Aluminium Limited (Xiangsen Aluminium) for the delivery of approximately 5 million wet metric tonnes of bauxite over the next three years. According to Metro,...
Aluminium balustrade producer Advance Metal Industries Australia set to expand its operation, secures NSW ‘Regional Job Creation Fund’ grant
The Coffs Harbour based company producing a large range of aluminium and glazed balustrades, Advance Metal Industries Australia (AMIA) is all set to expand its operations and accredits to the NSW Nationals in the state government’s Regional Job Creation Fund. Gurmesh Singh, the Nationals Member for...
Weston Aluminium plant fire may burn for days: Officials
Residents in Kurri Kurri, Hunter, are being advised to keep their windows and doors shut as firefighters work to put out a big industrial fire. The fire at the Weston Aluminium site began on Sunday morning and continued throughout the day and into the night, sending huge plumes of black smoke over...
AiRC-1000 sets a new standard for aluminium smelters with laser technology and robotic automation
Automation Innovation based in Victoria, Australia, has designed and engineered the new AiRC-1000. The system features robotic automation and a high-intensity laser to clean anode rods used in aluminium smelters. Aluminium is one of the world’s most abundant metals and is found naturally in...
Alpha HPA purchases 9.2 hectares site in Gladstone to build $300 million high purity alumina plant
Alpha HPA Limited has reportedly purchased a 9.2 hectares site Gladstone, Queensland, to develop a $300 million high purity alumina industrial plant. Premier of Queensland Annastacia Palaszczuk said the main objective behind building this plant is to create more jobs in varied industries and...
Alcoa to resume operations of redundant smelting capacity at Portland Aluminium
On 08 th November 2021, Alcoa Australia stated that it would resume functionalizing 35,000 tonnes per year of long retrenched capacity at its Portland aluminium smelter in Australia that will drive operations at the facility to around 95% of capacity amid supply shortage of the metal. Alcoa said...
Australian Bauxite Limited to build pilot plant to expand aluminium fluoride production
Australian Bauxite Limited is eyeing to expand aluminium fluoride production and thus, establishing a pilot plant on the mainland. The subsidiary, Alcore, initially aims at starting a commercial production at Bell Bay with a 10,000 tonnes per year capacity before ramping it up over time to 60,000...
HPA producing firm FYI Resources licensed to trade on US-based OTCQX market
The Australian listed resources company focused on developing an innovative and vertically integrated high quality, high-purity alumina for use in various high growth tech applications, FYI Resources Ltd has been licensed trade on the US-based OTCQX market. On 29 th October 2021, the HPA producing...
GMG assigns BOSCH to establish Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery manufacturing plant
The clean-technology company that has developed and proved its own proprietary production process to manufacture Graphene powder from readily available low-cost feedstock, Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has made public that BOSCH (Robert Bosch Australia) will design and deliver a Graphene...
Australia’s net zero carbon emission plan includes the use of low-emission aluminium technology, says PM
To meet a 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target, Australia is banking on existing technology and unproven innovations. Prime Minister Scott Morrison will carry the pledge to the UN's COP26 climate meeting in Glasgow, which begins on Sunday. Despite worldwide pressure to do more in the coming decade...
Rio Tinto’s bauxite production grows 2% Q-o-Q to 14 million tonnes; but alumina output drops 4% to 2 million tonnes
According to the third-quarter results of 2021 (ended on September 30) released by Rio Tinto, the company’s bauxite production stood at 13.967 million tonnes, up by 2 per cent quarter-on-quarter but down by 3 per cent on the year due to equipment reliability issues and overruns on planned shutdowns...
Rio Tinto remains serene while the energy crisis keeps local smelters afloat
Mining king Rio Tinto has signalled that they will be joining hands with the Queensland government to look for clean energy for their Boyne aluminium smelter, as Australian manufacturers are gaining a lot due to the crisis in global energy prices which is urging smelters in Europe and Asia to cut...
Alcoa, FYI Resources start-off alumina production trials at pilot plant
Alcoa and FYI Resources, the Australian listed resources company that aims at developing an innovative and vertically integrated high quality, high-purity alumina will commence the HPA trials at FYI’s pilot plant facility in Welshpool, Western Australia in October 2021. The trials are part of the...
King River appoints new CEO for its High Purity Metals Division’s upcoming alumina processing project
King River Resources Limited, an exploration mining company, has appointed a new CEO for its newly formed High Purity Metals Division as the company looks to lay the groundwork for building a processing plant for high purity alumina in Kwinana. Doug Flanagan, the newly appointed CEO, comes with an...
