85% recycled aluminium: Recorp raises the bar for sustainable beverage cans
Aluminium cans are under the spotlight among consumers and beverage manufacturers looking for more recyclable packaging, with the material already holding a strong circularity position against plastic and glass. Recorp tunes it further with ReCan85, an aluminium beverage can containing 85 per cent...
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...
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Rio Tinto reports 8% QoQ rise in bauxite production in Q1 2019
Rio Tinto announced first quarter 2019 production results. Bauxite production stood at 12.8 million tonnes in Q1 2019, up one per cent from the same period of 2018. “Increased production capacity following the expansion of Amrun in Queensland was partly offset by weather events throughout the...
Bald Hill mine produces and stockpiles 31,600 tonnes of bauxite at Bell Bay port ahead of schedule
Australian Bauxite Limited had produced 31,600 tonnes of bauxite from its Bald Hill mine as reported on Monday 9 April. With this, the company has achieved the target of 30,000 to 33,000 of cement-grade bauxite 3 weeks before the contract date of 1 May 2019. Production still continues at the Bald...
Metro Mining Ltd. restarts bauxite mining with strong anticipation of an increase in demand
As the wet season in Australia from November 2018 to April 2019 comes to an end, Metro Mining Limited has reportedly geared up and resumed bauxite mining at the Bauxite Hills Project in Far North Queensland. The company this year expects to be able to build on the success of its first operation...
A00 aluminium ingot price records a rise in all individual markets; Australian alumina FOB price down 0.25%
Shanghai Metals Market data shows that A00 aluminium ingot price had a rise on April 10 to RMB13830 per tonne. This was up RMB50 per tonne from yesterday. Spot aluminium contract is likely to be traded at discount of RMB20 per tonne to premiums of RMB20 per tonne. The average price is expected to...
US import of alumina drops 38% QoQ in Q4 2018; total import for 2018 up 28% from 2017
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...
Australian Bauxite executes MoU with Tianshan Aluminium for the sale of bauxite
Australian Bauxite Limited has announced that the company has executed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tianshan Aluminium for the supply of 0.5 to 1.5 million tonnes of bauxite per year from Binjour Project, Queensland. Australian Bauxite’s Marketing Partner, Rawmin Mining and Industries...
Metro Mining to present expansion plans of Bauxite Hills Mine at Proactive CEO Sessions
Metro Mining Ltd’s Managing Director Simon Finnis will talk expansion plans of Bauxite Hills Mine project with investors at the Proactive CEO Sessions in Sydney on Monday, April 8 and Melbourne on Tuesday, April 9. Simon Finnis will discuss how Metro Mining is transitioning to owner operator status...
QRC concerned over a proposed legislation to amend the bauxite royalty rates in Queensland
The Queensland Parliament has reaffirmed a royalty decision on bauxite in the parliament. But the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) has raised concerns over thelegislation to amend the royalty rates on bauxite exports. The Parliament maintained the existing minimum royalty rate on bauxite for...
Rio Tinto and BHP Group resume operations at some of their facilities after cyclone
Miners Rio Tinto and BHP Group said today, on March 26, that they resumed operations at some facilities that were stopped because of the cyclone-hit at Australia’s northern coastline over the weekend. In response to the Bureau of Meteorology report, Rio had suspended its Weipa bauxite operations...
China’s bauxite import up about 14% to stand at a record 9.41 million tonnes in February 2019
According to the latest data from China Customs, China’s imports of bauxite increased about 14% to stand at 9.41 million tonnes in February from 8.27 million tonnes in January. This is one of the record numbers as far as month bauxite import is concerned. Bauxite imports from Australia, Indonesia...
Rio Tinto suspends its Weipa bauxite operations after cyclone Trevor made a landfall
Gas and iron ore operations on Australia’s west coast are likely to be affected by an approaching cyclone just as a severe storm in the nation’s northeast dumps heavy rain on Rio Tinto Group’s biggest bauxite mine. The tropical cyclone Veronica is taking place at 545 kilometers (339 miles) north of...
Rio Tinto is in talks with Apple for the next phase of an agreement for its carbon-free aluminium project
Rio Tinto’s Chief Executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques said that Rio Tinto is in talks with Apple to move into the next phase of an agreement for a low-carbon aluminium smelting project. He said this during the inauguration of Rio’s new Amrun bauxite mine in northern Australia. The world’s top miner is...
A00 aluminium ingot price increases RMB70/t; Australian alumina FOB price up 2.05%
According to Shanghai Metals Market, A00 aluminium ingot price rose from RMB13610 per tonne to RMB13680 per tonne as of Tuesday, 12 March 2019, representing an increase of RMB70 per tonne or 0.51 per cent. The price is expected to range between RMB13660 per tonne and RMB 13700 per tonne, with spot...
Metro Mining takes MBA and honours degree graduate Fiona Murdoch on board
Metro Mining has reportedly appointed MBA and honours degree graduate Fiona Murdoch to its board. Murdoch is delighted to be joining the board and looking forward to contributing skills to ensure that Metro maximises all available opportunities, said herself according to the report. Giving her...
Rio Tinto completes commissioning of $1.9 billion Amrun bauxite mine
Rio Tinto has completed commissioning of the Amrun bauxite mine in Queensland, Australia. The company said that the mine and associated processing and port facilities will replace production from Rio Tinto’s depleting East Weipa mine. Rio Tinto will increase annual bauxite export capacity by around...
Australia’s aluminium powder and flakes export in terms of volume to grow YoY, while value to remain flat
The global aluminium powder and flakes market in terms of value is estimated to grow to US$1060 million by 2024 from US$910 million in 2019, growing at a CAGR of 2.5 per cent. The key players in the industry, such as Australia, are expected to cash on the opportunities that abound the market during...
Metro Mining Limited's expansion plans on track to meet 3.5 million wmt bauxite production during 2019
Metro Mining Limited plans to expand bauxite production its Bauxite Hills project in Far North Queensland by 17% to 3.5 million wet metric tonnes (wmt) during 2019, a news report from proactiveinvestors AUSTRALIA says. In its half-yearly report for the period ending December 31, 2018, the company...
Salamander Bay Recycling ready with its first aluminium hair foil load for transportation
Salamander Bay Recycling in the past one year collected aluminium hair foils from hairdressers across Port Stephens and the wider Hunter region, and this week it had the first load ready for transportation to Liberty OneSteel Recycling at Hexham. Salamander Bay Recycling general manager Gerard...
