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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Mining operations delayed at Metro’s Bauxite Hills Mine project
Bauxite mining operations, which was due to commence during the week beginning 2nd April, has been delayed by up to one week due to arrival of Tropical Cyclone Nora. However, the 2018 production target for the project remains unchanged, Metro Mining reported today. "Tropical Cyclone Nora is...
Rio Tinto hires UBS to explore Pacific Aluminium listing - sources
Rio Tinto has asked Swiss investment bank UBS to explore a possible public listing of its Pacific Aluminium smelting business on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), two industry sources said on Friday. The mining group has tried to sell the division many times without success, including in 2017,...
Altech advances final stage of project financing
Altech Chemicals Limited is pleased to provide an update on funding for its proposed Malaysian high purity alumina (HPA) plant and associated kaolin mine in Meckering, Western Australia (the Project). Senior Debt Package On 2 February 2018, the Company announced that it had executed a commitment...
Data shows upward pattern for Malaysia’s imports of aluminium wire in last three years
Malaysia imported MYR 73.2 billion worth of products around the world in January 2018, an increase of 11.6 per cent year-on-year. Imports of aluminium wire by Malaysia have been growing with each passing year. The automotive and construction sector is driving the market for aluminium wire...
Australia exempted from US aluminium, steel import tariff
The U.S. President Donald Trump has granted Australia an exemption from its new tariffs following discussions with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Turnbull said Australia will not join an international protest against the U.S. over aluminium and steel tariffs. "Spoke to PM of Australia....
China's alumina imports, exports down sharply in January
China’s alumina imports in January dropped 72 per cent from the same period previous year. China imported 73,624 tonnes of alumina from the global market, according to China's customs data. Source: www.metal.com (Unit: tonnes) China’s alumina imports from Indonesia were up 4.74 per cent YoY in...
China bauxite import drops 1.75% MoM in Jan; Guinea marches ahead as top supplier
Due to ongoing winter-heating season and resultant aluminium smelting cuts, bauxite demand in China domestic market has declined marginally. As a result, bauxite imports dropped in January to 7,037,633 tonnes from 7,163,056 tonnes in December last year. China’s total bauxite import for the...
Bauxite import by China climbs 53% YoY in January
China imported 7 million tonnes of bauxite from the global market in January, an increase of 53 per cent year on year, revealed data released by the General Customs Administration of China. Guinea and Australia continued to be the biggest suppliers of bauxite to China. Image Source: Shanghai Metals...
Altech lodges new provisional patent application for high purity alumina technology
Altech Chemicals Limited has lodged a new provisional patent application with the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia). This incorporates the finished product high purity alumina technology developed by it for its HPA project. The new patent application incorporates various refinements made to...
Altech receives manufacturing licence approval for alumina plant
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the approval of a manufacturing license from the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) for its 4,500 tonnes high purity alumina (HPA) plant at Johor, Malaysia. The approval represents another important milestone for the development of alumina...
Australia’s alumina import volume shows increase in 2017
Australia bought USD 221.4 billion worth of goods from around the world in 2017. Australia being one of the top producers and exporters of alumina, imports substantial amount of alumina to feed its smelters. The country's alumina import is estimated to decline in 2018. Australia imports huge amount...
Australian Hill End soon to release maiden resource estimate of its high purity alumina project
According to an independent news source, Hill End Gold Limited of Australia is close to releasing a maiden estimate of resource for its high-purity alumina project at Yendon, in the Central Highlands of Victoria. The ASX-listed mineral exploration company is 100 per cent stakeholder of the Pure...
Gränges signs LOI with Scandium International for scandium aluminium alloys
Gränges AB, a manufacturer of rolled aluminium for aluminium heat exchangers, announced signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Scandium International Mining Corporation for testing scandium aluminium alloys in heat exchanger applications. Gränges will test alloy in R&I Centre in Finspång to...
Australia bauxite export readies for a competitive year ahead
Australian bauxite export market is pegged at around US$30 million in 2018. After reaching an estimated 24 million tonnes in 2017, total bauxite export from the country is expected to total at 21 million tonnes this year. An earlier Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DIIS) report had...
Australian Bauxite boasts solid financials, says all projects are on schedule
The bauxite exploration and development company Australian Bauxite (ABx) has announced its quarterly highlights for the period ending December 31, 2017. The company said it was able to complete all its sales despatches successfully as scheduled and even loaded and shipped a combined 35,000 tonnes...
SCY signs LOI with OHM & Häner for testing scandium alloys in casting applications
Scandium International Mining Corp. (SCY) announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Ohm & Häner Metallwerk GmbH & Co. GK to test scandium alloys in casting applications. Ohm & Häner Metallwerk, based in Olpe, Germany, is a manufacturer of sand cast and gravity die cast parts. It...
Rio Tinto's Amrun bauxite project expected to support further capacity expansion and technological innovation
Rio Tinto's $US1.9 billion ($2.4 billion) Amrun bauxite project is now 75 per cent complete and the Amrun team is soon expected to award some more contracts associated with the project. Amrun project will produce 22.8 million tonnes of bauxite annually starting in mid-2019. According to Rio's...
Mercantile announces increase in bid consideration and extension of offer period for BOU takeover bid
With reference to the Off Market Takeover Bid for 50% of the issued ordinary shares in Bauxite Resources Limited, Mercantile OFM Pty Ltd has lodged a revised notice with ASIC on 19 January increasing the offer. Mercantile has increased the Offer from 9.0 cents cash to 11.0 cents cash for one of...
