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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Australian federal government refuses to impose full ban on PE-core aluminium cladding
The Australian federal government has refused to ban the import, sale and use of aluminium composite panels with a flammable polyethylene (PE) core as recommended by a Senate inquiry commission. During a meeting of the Building Ministers’ Forum on Friday, governments partially agreed to halt the...
EGA signs agreement with Queensland University to research on use of bauxite residue to make soil
Emirates Global Aluminium has signed an agreement with The University of Queensland, Australia, to conduct a three-year research programme into turning a by-product of the alumina industry into soil.The ground-breaking research project with The University of Queensland’s School of Agriculture and...
Australia and Malaysia’s bauxite exports to China drop while Brazil exports grow MoM in Aug
China, the now largest aluminium market in the world accounting for about 50 per cent of the world’s total output, is a voracious consumer of bauxite. The Asian giant sources its aluminium ore from all the leading bauxite producing countries of the world with Guinea topping the list as the largest...
Alumina imports and exports in China were up in August 2017
China’s imports of alumina increased in the month of August. The country’s imports of alumina totalled 287,138 tonnes in August 2017, up 123 per cent year-on year. During January-August, imports were down at 1.95 million tonnes, according to the latest import-export data published by China General...
Bunbury Port set to export bauxite mined by Alcoa
The Southern Ports Authority in Western Australia announced last week (ending September 29) that it is set to export “some of Alcoa’s 2.5 million tonnes of bauxite” earmarked for sale over the next two years. Bunbury is the second port approved to ship bauxite for Alcoa already shipping the mineral...
TNG Limited to sell exploration licence application to Rio Tinto
Australian strategic metals company TNG Limited announced that the company signed an agreement for the sale of its wholly owned Melville Island exploration licence application (ELA) in the Northern Territory to Rio Tinto Exploration. ELA 28617 covers an area of 1,387km2 in the north-western part of...
Langs Building Supplies inaugurates new facility for aluminium window frame
Langs Building Supplies, a supplier of doors & aluminium windows joinery, timber & hardware, pre-nailed wall frames, has opened its second store for the manufacturing of aluminium window frame on the Sunshine Coast in southern Queensland, Australia. The $20 million Caloundra trade store will...
Nissan Casting Australia to produce die-cast aluminium parts for the new Nissan LEAF
Nissan Casting Australia (NCA) will produce die cast aluminium parts for the new Nissan LEAF, the next evolution of its zero-emission electric vehicle. Dandenong South in Victoria secured the contract because cheaper countries could struggle with the highly technical nature of the items, reported...
Northern Territory’s bauxite sales figure stands at $452 million during 2016-2017
According to the NT Mining Production summary, the Northern Territory registered its highest ever minerals sales worth $3.63 billion during the 2016-17 period. Minister for Primary Industry and Resources, Ken Vowles, said “So it is encouraging to see a 19 per cent increase in mining production...
Australian Bauxite Ltd completes shipment ahead of schedule
Australian Bauxite Limited announced the delivery of 30,000 tonne bauxite from its Bald Hill Bauxite mine, Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania. The customer will pay 90 per cent of the invoice value immediately and the remainder on proof of weight. “Because this delivery has been completed 3 weeks...
South Korea alumina imports estimated to grow in 2017
South Korea is the 9th largest importer in the world. The country’s imports of commodities increased at an annualized rate of 0.6%, from $408B in 2010 to $422B in 2015. South Korea imports large quantities of alumina to meet the domestic demand. Australia and Japan are the top suppliers of alumina...
North Melbourne TAFE facade features Symonite HD aluminium composite panels
The facade on the North Melbourne Institute of TAFE features Symonite HD aluminium composite panels in various metallic and solid colours. Located in Preston, Victoria, the North Melbourne TAFE facility was designed by Tectura Architects with the building and installation completed by Commercial...
Metro awards mining contract to SAB for Bauxite Hills Mine
Metro Mining Limited today announced that it awarded the mining contract to SAB Mining (SAB), a private Queensland mining services company, for the operation of the Bauxite Hills Mine in North Queensland. The company started the construction at the mine in July and expects to start mining...
Australian Bauxite shipment ahead of schedule
Australian Bauxite Limited’s shipment of up to 33,000 tonnes of cement grade bauxite to a repeat customer is expected to be fully delivered to the Bell Bay port by September 19. That would be two to three weeks ahead of schedule. The company, which mines at Bald Hill, near Campbell Town, said it...
Queensland Bauxite’s project gets environmental approval
The Queensland Department Heritage Protection (DEHP) has approved the environmental authority (EA) for Queensland Bauxite’s South Johnstone project at Camp Creek, taking it a step closer to production. The EA permit allows the company to conduct development work outlined by the mineral development...
Pacific Bauxite to raise capital for its bauxite project
Pacific Bauxite Limited, an Australian mineral explorer with a focus on bauxite exploration, mining and production, has identified three large high-grade bauxite reserves at the South West New Georgia Bauxite Project in the Solomon Islands for mining, reported by Proactive Investors. For this,...
Metallica sells Sconi project to Australian Mines to advance its Urquhart Bauxite project
Australian Mines has acquired the Sconi cobalt/nickel/scandium project from joint venture partner Metallica Minerals for $10 million in North Queensland. An Australian bauxite developer Metallica will use the cash to advance its Urquhart bauxite project. Metallica CEO Simon Slesarewich said, “With...
Rio Tinto completes divestment of Coal & Allied Industries Limited for $2.69 billion
Rio Tinto has completed the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary Coal & Allied Industries Limited to Yancoal Australia Limited. From today, Yancoal takes over management of Rio Tinto’s thermal coal business in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. Rio Tinto will receive total consideration of...
