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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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...
Exploration Orbite VSPA Inc. says its patented process to convert the Grande Vallée aluminous clays in the Gaspé Peninsula into alumina may have a much wider potential than expected. Orbite has already produced high-grade alumina - the intermediate material for smelting primary aluminum - in its...
Exploration Orbite VSPA (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) announces that it has successfully extracted alumina from samples of Guinean bauxite. Repeated internal laboratory tests and reviews by independent engineers have confirmed the potential of Orbite's process to extract alumina from bauxite. Orbite's...
In what appears to be technological break, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the Indian arm of London based Vedanta Resources Ltd, is recovering import-substitute Vanadium from effluent red-mud from its alumina refinery project at Lajigarh minting gold from its mud-to-money (MTM) programme. The...
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
THE LARGEST aluminium refinery in Europe, Rusal Aughinish on the Shannon estuary, returned to profit last year after sustaining combined pre-tax losses of $63.6 million (€43.7 million) in 2009 and 2008. A spokesman for the company confirmed yesterday that its 2010 accounts are expected to show a...
Last Wednesday, India Real Time wrote that villagers in Lanjigarh in the eastern state of Orissa were complaining that toxic waste was leaking from a pond belonging to Vedanta Aluminium Ltd.’s local alumina refinery into a nearby river. The company, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC,...
Last Wednesday, India Real Time wrote that villagers in Lanjigarh in the eastern state of Orissa were complaining that toxic waste was leaking from a pond belonging to Vedanta Aluminium Ltd.’s local alumina refinery into a nearby river. The company, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC,...
...Reports from Lanjigarh say a crack in the western part of the red mud pond of Vedanta Alumina refinery has leaked into nearby water bodies and hence into the Vamsadhara river. This happened following a thunder burst on April 5...
...A record fine amounting to over HUF 10 billion will be imposed on alumina producer MAL Zrt for the red sludge disaster the company caused in October, 2010, state secretary of environmental protection Zoltán Illés told wire agency MTI...
...The Hungarian metals plant responsible for a massive spill of toxic red sludge which killed 10 people last year has switched to a safer technology to process its caustic waste, officials said Monday...
...GREENPEACE WANTS the EU to force Hungary to take action over toxic waste the environmental group says is still leaking from an alumina plant that caused a deadly disaster last October...
...Hungary's bauxite processing technology is quite different from that in Viet Nam. Hundreds of tonnes of red sludge spilled from a broken dam at a plant in Hungary that processes bauxite to produce aluminium. Viet Nam has learnt from Hungary's breakdown...
...Cracks in a reservoir which burst last week, flooding several towns in western Hungary with red sludge and killing at least seven people, have not continued to widen, officials have said...
...The immediate flood threat to residents of three western Hungarian counties triggered by millions of gallons of red mud, a caustic aluminum industry byproduct, is over, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said on Tuesday afternoon...
...The reservoir of an alumina plant in western Hungary burst on Monday, flooding several towns with towering waves of red sludge...
