FAST Metals, the mining technology company recovering base and rare materials from red mud (bauxite tailings) and other iron-rich waste, has raised USD 4.3 million in pre-seed funding and announced its first commercial customer, Metalox Mineral Corporation. Under a strategic partnership, FAST...
Canadian climate technology company Enervoxa is planning to establish a commercial-scale rare earth processing plant in India that would recover critical minerals from red mud, the aluminium waste residue generated during alumina refining. The company is exploring partnerships with Vedanta...
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RIO Tinto Alcan will be fined between $30,000 and $50,000 after admitting it did not have the capacity to cope with a big flood at its red mud dam at Yarwun last year. Rio Tinto pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the breach of environmental obligations in Gladstone Magistrate's Court, with the...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in alumina industry tackling major environmental hazards. “The unique project of producing red mud powder has been commissioned in a fully mechanised and...
Siberians are ready to build furnaces and recycle the red mud remaining after the processing of bauxite. The new technology, they argue, will produce cheap iron, rare earth metals and silica foam, which enjoys popularity in Europe throughout various industries. The project was supported by the...
The Rare Earth Elements Pilot Project site, located on the grounds of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) in Kingston is complete and will be toured by Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell on Tuesday. Japan-based Nippon Light Metal (NLM) in collaboration with the JBI...
UC Rusal plans to invest RUR 367.9 million modernising gas treatment equipment at the Irkutsk aluminium smelter (IrkAZ). According to the emissions reduction plan, approved by the Ministry of natural resources of the Irkutsk region, between 2013 and 2015, seven electrostatic precipitators in the...
There have been fresh calls this week for an investigation to take place on the disposal of red bauxite on the banks of the Shannon, which comes from the Rusal Aughinish site. The Russian-owned company, which produces alumina, is two years into a project which sees the disposal of 1.2m tonnes of...
The former mayor of Limerick has said he has “serious concerns” about plans by Aughinish Alumina to extend the height of bauxite residue deposits to 100 feet on its lands adjacent to the Shannon Estuary. According to Fine Gael councillor Jim Long, the Russian-owned company, under terms agreed in...
MAL Hungarian Aluminium Ltd is to be dismantled by state-owned liquidator Nemzeti Reorganizációs Nonprofit by court order, the National Development Ministry said on Wednesday. The firm behind the lethal “red mud” toxic waste spill of October 2010 has been in an impossible financial position since...
On 5th Jan.,2012,Ministry of industry and information department published “the multipurpose use of bulk industrial solid waste’twelfth Five-Year’ ”,in which the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk industrial solid waste is requested to reach 50%.Red mud is the largest solid waste in aluminum...
The pilot plant being established to undertake the extraction of rare earth elements from the island’s bauxite waste (red mud), will have no negative impact on the environment, says Executive Director of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Dr. Paris Lyew-Ayee. The assurance has come following...
Nippon Light Metals has broken ground on its red mud pilot plant on the grounds of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) in Hope Gardens, St. Andrew. For the next three months the Japanese aluminium firm will be extracting rare earth elements from Jamaica’s red mud as the focus of its US$3 million...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. ("Orbite") and Veolia Environmental Services ("Veolia") signed an exclusive worldwide collaborative agreement for the treatment and recycling of red mud generated by industrial alumina production using the Bayer process. The terms of the partnership include the construction of...
Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the Caribbean island's top mining official said Tuesday. Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said...
A mechanical failure at a central Queensland alumina refinery has released an unknown amount of chemical waste into a residential area of Gladstone. Queensland Alumina's refinery in Gladstone is the largest in the world. The refining process creates the toxic by-product 'red mud', which is stored...
Orbite Aluminae Inc. has developed a hydrochloric acid technology using up-to-date advanced process and hardware solutions. One of the advantages of the technology helping in energy saving is using pressure leaching to avoid pre-calcination of ore. The technology was initially developed for local...
Operators have again delayed the opening of the Tan Rai alumina plant in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong for an undetermined period of time. Before this latest delay for the country’s first-ever alumina plant, the facility was supposed to go into operation on November 1. “The alumina...
The US$460-million Tan Rai alumina plant in Lam Dong Province will be put into operation on November 1 instead of this month as previously announced, the Tan Rai bauxite project management board has said. The delay, because of unsatisfactory preparation, was announced at yesterday’s meeting between...
The head of an alumina plant that caused a massive toxic spill in western Hungary in 2010 went on trial Monday along with 14 employees, accused of negligence. Ten people were killed and some 150 injured after a holding reservoir at the MAL alumina plant in Ajka burst its walls on October 4, 2010,...
