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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Bauxite mining operations in Weipa could extinct newly found venomous snake, study says
The latest Australian-led research disclosed on Monday, July 16, that bauxite mining could threaten a new species of venomous snake, named Vermicella Parscauda, recently found in Weipa with extinction. Weipa is a reputed mining town on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast of the Cape York Peninsula, where...
Altech Chemicals signs agreement with EPC contractor SMS Group for stage 1 construction of HPA plant
Altech Chemicals Ltd has signed the final agreement to construct stage I of its high purity alumina (HPA) plant in Johor, Malaysia with its EPC contractor SMS Group GmbH (SMS) of Germany. The scope of work is valued at around $10 million and includes bulk earthworks, foundation piling and the...
Collerina to raise fund for its high purity alumina first process
Australia based company Collerina Cobalt Limited has declared that it is going to raise a fund of around A$ 4 million through a one-for-ten rights issue, priced at 8c each, for advancing high purity alumina (HPA) first process at its Collerina project in New South Wales. The issue price of 8c a...
Metro Mining announces production results for June Quarter
Metro Mining has announced detailed production and shipping results for the June Quarter. The company’s Bauxite Hills Mine in Queensland has experienced a steady ramp-up and is approaching the budgeted operating rates and achieving consistent results on a daily basis. Image Source:Metro Mining...
Aggreko completes power station upgradation project at $2.6 billion Rio Amrun bauxite project
Aggreko Australia Pacific has completed the project of upgradation of 20MW power station at Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite project in Far North Queensland. Aggreko had received $100 million contract to build and operate a power station at the company’s project in June las year. The new power station has...
Australian Bauxite estimates of Binjour Project Reserves double to 37 million tonnes
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) advised the global market yesterday that the reserves at the Binjour Project site are now estimated to total 37 million metric tons, 51 percent above previous estimates for the project. ABx says the results are gleaned from samples taken from over nine hundred drill...
Rio Tinto obtains infrastructure material for its $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project
Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest metals and mining corporations, has reported the receipt of vital infrastructure pieces for its US$2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. The infrastructure pieces include 550t stacker and 1700t reclaimer, which arrived after 16...
Australian Mines confirms partnership with Metalysis for aluminium-scandium alloy
With the aim to accelerate revenue generation and shareholder value at the flagship project Sconi in Queensland, the metals explorer Australian Mines (ASX: AUZ) confirms its partnership deal with UK-based technology company Metalysis. The company intends to commercialise the high-purity scandium...
Tomago Aluminium warns of operations cut due to power deficit
Tomago Aluminium, one of Australia’s biggest smelters near Newcastle, has notified on Friday, June 8, 2018, that it may have to curtail operations for a third time in a week due to power shortage across the national electricity market. The company said it was asked to halt each of three potlines...
Aluminium-bodied car Alpine A110 2018 confirms its pricing and specs
Renault Australia unveils the pricing for its new Alpine A110 which dons an all-aluminium construction. The order books of this new beauty are now open for the three variant ranges, starting at US$97,000 plus on road-costs for the entry-level Pure, US$103,500 for the up-specced Legende, and...
Metro’s first two bauxite shipments successfully arrive in China
Metro Mining happily announced a successful arrival of its first two shipments 123kt bauxite in China and confirmed the receipt of payment from off-take partner Xinfa Group. Xinfa Group, which has a 4-year off-take agreement with Metro, was responsible for handling the delivery of the shipment from...
Rio Tinto completes the sale of Winchester South for $200 million
Rio Tinto has completed the sale of its 75 per cent interest in the Winchester South coal development project in Queensland, Australia, to Whitehaven Coal Limited. Total consideration of $200 million is comprised of $150 million in cash received today and an unconditional cash payment of $50...
Alumina Limited to expand bauxite production on anticipating bauxite shortage in China
On anticipating the shortage of bauxite availability in China within the next three years, Alumina Limited would consider acquiring new bauxite assets. It would even consider ramping up the production capacities of its existing mines. Alumina and its joint venture partner Alcoa have exposure to...
AU Capital Mining’s licence to explore bauxite suspended
The Australian mining company, AU Capital Mining, co-owned by Pacific Bauxite, has had its exploration licence suspended in the Solomon Islands. Bradley Tovosia, Minister of Mines in Solomon Islands, said the exploration licence was suspended because the company had not had amicable relations with...
Romania aluminium powder and flakes import sees about 41% increase in 2018
The global aluminium powders, pastes, and flakes market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 5.03 per cent during the period 2018-2022, according to the latest report by ResearchAndMarkets.com. Russian Federation was the top supplier of aluminium powder and flakes to the country...
Australia Bauxite Ltd. to fund Stage 1 of its bauxite refining project ALCORE
After almost two months, Tasmanian miner, Australia Bauxite Ltd. has made a significant progress with its bauxite refining project ALCORE. In our previous news, we had reported that engineering and cost study for the first stage was finished, including the construction of an engineering validation...
Australia’s aluminium exports to continue declining in H1 2018; Japan tops the importer list
Australia's aluminium industry is a highly integrated sector of mining, refining, smelting and semi-fabrication centres. It has four major aluminium smelters- all operated by the biggest names in the global aluminium industry. Raw aluminium accounts for 19 per cent of the total exports of the...
Austal to invest in commercial shipbuilding expansion for large, high-speed aluminium vessel contracts
Just a few days after missing out on a role in the Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) project, Austal Limited took a great pleasure to announce the details of its capacity expansion plans at Henderson, Western Australia, and the Philippines on Monday, May 14, 2018. Started off in 2017, this expansion...
