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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Aurukun needs bauxite mine to normalise the economy, says MP Billy Gordon
Independent Queensland MP Billy Gordon and indigenous leaders said Friday, last week, the Palaszczuk (39th Premier of Queensland, Australia) government needed to do more to ensure economic development of the troubled Cape York community of Aurukun. He stressed upon the need for opening the bauxite...
Altech’s Meckering mining lease granted
Altech Chemicals Limited announced that its kaolin mining lease (ML) application M70/1334 at Meckering, Western Australia has been granted by the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP). The ML is estimated to contain ~11 million tonnes of kaolin mineral resources, representing over 250 years of...
Metallica Minerals hopeful about starting bauxite production by H1 2017
Metallica Minerals is looking forward to starting bauxite production by the first half of 2017. Metallica CEO, Simon Siesarewich said in a recent interview that the company is likely to have the approvals in place over the wet season 2016/17. Since that is not the right time up around Weipa to be...
Queensland Alumina eager to explore possibilities of red mud dam project
Red mud, a byproduct of alumina refining from bauxite (the principal ore of aluminium) could be the key to creating a new industry in Gladstone that would lead to thousands of new jobs. Extracting iron ore from the waste product of aluminium to make steel is the latest idea from the group behind...
Bell Bay Aluminium heading back to peak production
Bell Bay Aluminium announced resumption of operations within four to five weeks. The general manager of the company says they are thrilled to be heading back to full production after months of power rationing. The prolonged Basslink outage and record low rainfall caused major industrial energy...
Gladstone's alumina refineries could get exemption: Labor
Australian Labor Party candidate Zac Beers voiced a strong opposition against senator Matt Canavan's comments yesterday that a Labor government would send Gladstone's aluminium industry offshore by saying Labor's policy was about creating and nurturing industries not wrecking them. Liberal senator...
Gladstone alumina industry may go offshore with government’s 50% renewable energy target: opposition
According to Senator Matt Canavan, Labor & Green government's 50 percent renewable energy target by 2030 would close the alumina refinery and smelter and send the industry off shore. The Liberal National Party senator said the only way Labor could achieve those targets would be to get the major...
Bauxite Hills EIS open for public comment
The environmental-impact statement (EIS) for the proposed Bauxite Hills project, in Cape York, has been opened for public comment after the Queensland government accepted the document. ASX-listed Metro Mining in April submitted the EIS to the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage...
Australian Bauxite hits payday for bauxite shipment
ASX-listed Australian Bauxite (ABx) is hoping to ship its second batch of bauxite from the Bald Hill mine, in Tasmania, within the next two months. The miner said on Tuesday that full payment had now been received for the maiden cargo of 5 557 t of cement-grade bauxite that left Tasmania in April...
NSW 'cash for cans' recycling scheme likely to dent soft beverage sales by 10%
A New South Wales government plan to reduce litter volume by imposing a small deposit on drinks could dent sales of soft drinks, fruit juice and bottled water by almost 10 per cent, observed market watchers. Under the container deposit scheme, which comes into effect in July 2017, commercial drink...
Altech sells high purity alumina exploration licence for $2 mln cash
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the execution of an agreement with Dana Shipping and Trading S.A. for the sale of exploration licence E70/3923 at Meckering, Western Australia for $2.0 million. The exploration licence is surplus to Altech’s feedstock requirements for its proposed Malaysian...
Aluminium demand to remain strong; Alumina Ltd
Alcoa's Australian partner Alumina Ltd says demand for aluminium is expected to remain strong and the company is well positioned as it looks to secure higher prices. Chief executive Peter Wasow said strong growth in demand for aluminium was expected to continue, and Alumina's Alcoa World Alumina...
Altech secures settlement for mining lease at Meckering
Altech Chemicals Limited announces that it has executed a settlement and option to purchase agreement for the freehold land that completely encompasses its mining lease application M70/1334 at Meckering, Western Australia. As reported previously, the landowners had objected to the application for...
Australia's specialised aluminium trailer builder readies to launch race car transporters
Graham Lusty Trailers (GLT) is now building customised race car transporters. The specialised aluminium trailer builder of Australia GLT has fabricated their first 6 car transporter for Steve McFadden. Aluminium and stainless steel is extensively used throughout the trailer. Where aluminium cannot...
Bauxite prospectors signs mine pact without ministry
An agreement between AU Capital Mining and Iron Mountain Mining was done outside the government’s normal process, without the input from the Ministry of Mines. Both are Australian companies and are eying bauxite prospecting at Nende, Temotu. It has been known from a reliable source that the Mines...
Global bauxite reserves were 27.5 bln tonnes as of Jan 2016, says report
According to a new market research publication on global bauxite mining trends and outlook to 2020, the world bauxite reserves stood at 27.5 billion tonnes (Bnt) as of January 2016. Guinea had the world’s largest reserves, with 7.4Bnt, accounting for 26.9 per cent of the global total, with most...
Bald Hill ships first cement-grade bauxite
ASX-listed Australian Bauxite (ABx) has shipped its first 5,557 tons of cement-grade bauxite from the Bald Hill mine, in Tasmania. The company told shareholders on Thursday that the customer sought a second, larger shipment of between 30 000 t and 40 000 t once the large stockpile warehouse at the...
Altech signs off take sales agreement with Mitsubishi for all HPA production
Altech Chemicals Limited has announced the execution of a 10 year off take sales arrangement (Agreement) with Mitsubishi Corporation’s Australian subsidiary, Mitsubishi Australia Ltd (Mitsubishi) for 100 per cent of the high purity alumina (HPA) production from the company’s proposed Malaysian HPA...
