The ongoing geopolitical tensions, especially with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, are deemed to be creating an adverse impact on Jamaica's bauxite and alumina sector. As warned by the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), the country is now grappling with increased production costs and a feeding...
The global aluminium price is on a rising trend, reaching a four-year high, especially because of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. In March 2026, the aluminium price rose to USD 3,492 per tonne. In the upcoming African Mining Week (AMW) 2026, which is being scheduled for October 14-16 in...
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A group of Lindeners are calling for relief from a dust situation caused by the Bosai bauxite plant in the once-thriving mining town. Several residents, including Regional Councillor Judith Rogers, were present at the AFC’s weekly news conference on Wednesday in Georgetown. “The matter was raised...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) joined the international community in expressing solidarity with the victims of Somalia’s worst recorded drought in 60 years by pledging to donate US$ 250,000 (BD 94,250) to support wide range of relief efforts. Alba’s donation was in response to the fund raising...
Authorities are investigating the cause of a magnesium fire at the Tennessee Aluminum Processors plant in Mt. Pleasant. The Mt. Pleasant Fire Department arrived at the plant about 8:15 p.m. Thursday after receiving reports of a loud explosion, Chief Tim Smith said. Smith suspects the explosion and...
Emergency officials were responding to reports of several loud explosions and a fire at the Tennessee Aluminum Processors plant in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., WSMV-TV reported Thursday night.
Waste from aluminum recycling at Tennessee Aluminum Processors Inc. and Smelter Services Corp. in Mt. Pleasant is causing concern at a Murfreesboro landfill. On March 28, authorities at Middle Point Landfill, located off East Jefferson Pike in Murfreesboro, reported an area of “elevated...
Westwood Aluminum Castings Inc. expects to terminate all 87 of its employees by Friday, the Waukesha foundry said Tuesday in a notification to the state Department of Workforce Development.
The Regional Officer of Orissa State Pollution Control Board (OSPCB), Anupam Behera, has indicted aluminium major Hindalco for emission of fluoride from its Smelter Plant at Hirakud which resulted in crop damage in the villages of Nua Jamda, Dengimocha and Mohammadpur located in the vicinity of the...
Aluminum waste buried years ago at Middle Point Landfill has begun causing temperatures to rise in a closed section of the landfill. In late March, Allied Waste discovered steam and heat in the closed area and notified the state. “When we noticed the elevated temperatures in portions of the...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has served three enforcement notices on bauxite company, WINDALCO, over the discharge of industrial effluent into Old Johns Gully in Ewarton, St Catherine. The release of noxious substance, which caused the death of several fishes, prompted NEPA...
Officials at Middle Point Landfill today said they are managing elevated temperatures in a portion of the facility caused by the oxidation of aluminum waste buried there years ago. Certain waste material from the aluminum manufacturing and recycling process has become problematic for some...
Fire officials in Mount Airy are trying to determine what sparked a 2-alarm fire, Tuesday evening. The Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Company responded to Phase, Inc., a sheet metal fabrication shop in the 1600 block of Back Acre Circle in response to call call for service. Once the first crews arrived...
A power outage early Tuesday shut down Venezuela steelmaker Sidor and partially stopped operations at state-owned aluminum company Venalum, state media reported. A transformer failure at 3:35 a.m. led to the emergency stop at the plants, according to the Venezuelan News Agency.
When bauxite (raw aluminum ore) is processed into aluminum oxide, or alumina, it's first bathed in a solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) at very high temperatures. Aluminum compounds in the bauxite dissolve while other compounds remain behind: iron oxides, sand, clay, some titanium oxides and even...
When bauxite (raw aluminum ore) is processed into aluminum oxide, or alumina, it's first bathed in a solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) at very high temperatures. Aluminum compounds in the bauxite dissolve while other compounds remain behind: iron oxides, sand, clay, some titanium oxides and even...
About 2,000 pounds of molten aluminum spilled from a furnace early Wednesday morning at Hydro Aluminum in St. Augustine, according to a statement from the company.
Anger erupted inside and outside Vedanta's annual meeting on Wednesday as campaigners protested against the mining company's environmental and human rights record. Scores of people picketed the building where the gathering was being held in London and chanted slogans against the firm, which has...
The environmental cleanup of Hungary's worst industrial disaster - a flood of toxic sludge from a reservoir at an alumina plant last October - will cost close to HUF 15 billion, Csaba Szabó, the farm minister's commissioner for the project, said at a press conference in Kolontár on Tuesday.
As many as 60 Rio Tinto Alcan employees in Alma, Que. have been forced into early vacations or temporary layoffs as the metal giant tries to fix a problem with the formulation of produced aluminum. Equipment that's normally used to re-line aluminum pots has been diverted to fixing the problem,...
