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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Orbite Aluminae today announced that it has prepared a series of detailed white papers covering the Company's technology and markets as well as competitive advantages. "Orbite is pleased to share these in-depth white papers with our investors, customers, and industry colleagues, as they lay the...
The developer of a potentially market-changing alumina-producing technology Orbite Aluminae on Thursday said it had found a way to produce high-quality smelter-grade alumina (HGA) at a cost of about 40% less than that produced through traditional methods. President and CEO Richard Boudreault told...
Canadian clean tech company Orbite Aluminae Inc. is pleased to announce that it has developed a patented technology that can treat red mud, the most significant waste product of the traditional Bayer process for aluminum production. The Company thus offers the only ecologically sound and...
Orbite Aluminae, Inc. C3Wednesday struck a tentative deal with India's Nalco that will see the gold and precious metals company test its technology on ore and red mud residue. Nalco, or National Aluminium Company Limited, was established in 1981 as a public sector enterprise of the government of...
Around 6,000 lawsuits have been filed against Norway-based aluminium firm Norsk Hydro in a Brazilian small-claims court in relation to a 2009 water spill at an alumina refinery, the firm said on Friday.A spill at Hydro's majority-owned Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil in 2009 has resulted in a...
About 67 hectares of farmland were submerged in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of Tuesday after a sludge dump of an aluminum company began leaking Saturday. Mud measuring over one meter in depth from the sludge dump of the Guangxi Huayin Aluminum Co., Ltd. entered the houses of...
Hungarian authorities are not keen on taking any risk after the red-mud disaster in 2010 caused by the MAL Hungarian Aluminium Producing and Trading Company. On Monday, they threatened to take the owners of the alumina plant responsible for a red-mud disaster in 2010 to court if they did not deal...
SCIENTISTS at the University of Glasgow are working to turn a toxic industrial waste product into a material which can be used to treat contaminated water. A team from the University’s School of Chemistry, in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, have found...
Vedanta Aluminium's Lanjigarh project in Odisha may become another Kudankulam, as environment activists belonging to foreign non-Government organisations (NGO) have suddenly surfaced to show their concern. Vedanta Aluminium's plan to expand its annual capacity from 1 million tonnes to 6 million...
UC RUSAL announced that the development of a new red mud recycling prototype facility is included to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science's Russian Science and Technology Complex Priority Research and Development Areas 2007 to 2013 program. The Ministry will invest RUB 150 million for the...
The red sludge spill that hit three West Hungarian towns in October 2010 can be attributed to the negligence of alumina factory Mal whose reservoir burst in the first place, and to the authorities in the second, the head of the parliamentary fact-finding committee told Parliament on Tuesday. The...
Russia: Russian aluminium giant UC RUSAL is aiming to launch a Euro 15 million alumina production waste recycling facility at its Urals Aluminium Smelter in October 2014. With only 10% of this waste currently recycled and the remainder stored in special disposal areas, this represents a major...
The imbroglio surrounding extension of red mud pond of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) in Lanjigarh seems to be getting murkier with each passing day. Even as 47 villagers of Rengopali who were arrested for protesting the work have been released, people of the village continue to protest. In the last...
Russian aluminum giant UC RUSAL plans to launch a 600 million ruble alumina production waste recycling facility at its Urals Aluminum Smelter in October 2014, RUSAL said Thursday. The facility is expected to process up to 200,000 tonnes of red mud annually. The recycling of alumina production waste...
More than six years after the V.I. Department of Planning and Natural Resources filed suit against eight industrial companies operating on the southern shore, a portion of the toxic red mud resulting from decades of alumina production will be cleaned up, officials said. The cost of the clean-up is...
Paratech Hungary has tested technology for converting toxic bauxite residue into harmless building materials at the plant of alumina maker MAL in Ajka (NW Hungary), managing director Gabor Finaczy told MTI. Paratech Hungary converted the bauxite residue, a red sludgy substance, with a mobile...
THE future of the $1.2 billion (€873m) alumina refinery at Aughinish Alumina has been secured until 2030 at least, with the company commissioning a 195-acre development that has the capacity to hold over 17 million tonnes of bauxite residue or "red mud". The owners of Europe’s largest alumina...
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...
