
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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The major alumina asset of Rusal and one of the world’s leading energy-efficient refineries, Aughinish alumina stated that numerous developments are essential at their facility near Askeaton, Limerick County to pursue production until at least 2039. However, lacking these developments, the company...

Work on Alcoa Brasil's Filtro Prensa project began in August 2021 at the company's Poços de Caldas alumina refinery, which is fed by a captive adjacent bauxite mine. It is R$310 million (US$55 million) investment that will fully transform the waste disposal system at the Minas Gerais facility. The...

On 6 th January 2022, the Jamaican minister of transport and mining, Robert Montague, has officially inaugurated the UC Rusal owned Windalco’s $4-million project to restrain caustic sewage from impacting the environment. The programme of the bauxite and alumina production complex in Ewarton, St....

The alumina refineries in Queensland, Australia is all set in motion to enter full-scale trials with a new technology that might transpose the bauxite residue red mud to soil-like material competent of laying on plant life. As reported by the researchers who are developing the new system, stated...

On 31 st August 2021, the affected inhabitants restarted their protest against the construction of the second red mud pond by the state-owned aluminium producer NALCO near Denga Jani Guda under the Dasmantpur block. The protesters staged a dissent in front of the Koraput Collector’s office...

The Dengajaniguda village in Odisha under Dasamantpur block of Koraput district witnessed restlessness as local inhabitants obstructed the government revenue officials from pin-pointing land for Nalco’s red mud pond. It has been reported that since 11th June 2021, the villagers are geared up with...

Under Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission, city-based institute Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development Design Centre (JNARDDC) has innovated a distinct technology to extract Rare Earth Elements (REE) from aluminium waste (Red Mud), in an attempt to reduce India's import dependence on China for REE....

On 15 th March, Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, Vinacomin’s bauxite mining projects in the Central Highlands has been inspected by a delegation of the National Assembly The delegation inspected the mining site and production processes in Bao Lam district’s Lam Dong province,...

The Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards joined DADA Holdings Chairman and CEO David D’Addario and Enervoxa CEO Vandit Verma to publicise that the joint venture of DADA Holdings and Enervoxa ‘ElementUS’, will infuse an $800 million capital investment to extract rare earth elements at the Noranda...

On Thursday, January 7, a commercial court in France gave a green signal to Guinean logistics specialist United Mining Supply (UMS) to take over Alteo, a global leader in specialty alumina. The former was the last remaining bidder to take charge of Alteo’s production site near the southern city of...

The data analytics and consulting company, headquartered in London, GlobalData Plc in April’20 reported that bauxite miners generally been unaffected, with the major producing countries of Australia, Guinea and Brazil were yet to announce the closure of mines at that time and mines in China have...

A time at odds on the environmental aspect of the future of the Alteo alumina plant in Gardanne, the mayors of Bouc-Bel-Air and Gardanne in a joint press release on 5 th December’20 stated that they place their trust in the project to continue the activity of the mining industrialist United mining...

According to a recent report, LAlumina LLC is close to the process of employee retrenchment due to the continued economic challenge, as was announced months ago. The news came after former acting plant manager Peter Odgers said the process of laying off more than 300 employees is nearly completed....

New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC, through its subsidiary Noranda Alumina, has executed a Letter of Intent with Cemtech Materials Corporation to sell 60,000 tonnes of bauxite residue starting from the Q4 of 2020. This bauxite residue will be used in the cement production process as the raw material for...

On 4 th September’20, the French speciality alumina plant in Gardanne, Alteo started a new biological treatment station for its liquid effluents, designed and built by Veolia. Since the last phase of 2015, Alteo continued to invest in the purification of its liquid residues commonly called “red...

According to a recent report, Hindalco Industries Limited has taken a few significant steps to ward off incidents like industrial by-product bauxite residue spillage from the storage area that took place at Hindalco’s Muri alumina refinery in April 2019. The company has ensured the safety and...

The new filtration process has started working; speciality alumina producer Alteo is permitted to discharge waste-free water at sea. The eight buyers who are in the run will visit the plant site in France next week. The trade unions demand that they incorporate this new data in their offer, fearing...

Hindalco Industries Ltd., a global leader in Aluminium, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with UltraTech Cement Ltd., part of the same group and India’s largest manufacturer of cement and concrete, to deliver 1.2 million tonnes of red mud (also known as bauxite residue) annually to...