Alurion Resources has started infill drilling and bulk-sample trenching at its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Bahia, Brazil, as the newly listed company advances the asset toward a targeted mid-2027 pre-feasibility study. The field programme marks a shift from defining the project’s resource...
Alcoa and the governments of Australia, Japan and the United States have begun construction of a gallium production plant at Alcoa’s Wagerup alumina refinery in Western Australia, targeting output equivalent to about 10 per cent of global gallium demand. The facility is expected to produce 100...
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In partnership with the alumina and aluminium producer Alcoa Corporation, governments and industrial representatives of Australia, Japan and the US have reached the final investment decision (FID) for a project to establish a gallium production facility at Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery in...
Canada and Japan are deepening their critical minerals alliance, seeking to reduce their dependence on Chinese supplies. At Canada's largest-ever trade mission to Tokyo and the Asia-Pacific region, companies from both countries signed commercial agreements worth over CAD 1 billion (USD 706.11...
China is marking its footprint as the world's leading processor of critical minerals, extending its influence well beyond mining into the refining stage, which highlights modern technologies. The country currently dominates refined production for 19 of the world's 20 key critical minerals,...
U.S. Critical Materials Corp. ("USCM") is featured in a new AL Circle interview spotlighting a largely untapped domestic resource: the defense-critical metals, including gallium, scandium, titanium, and rare earth elements, recoverable from red mud, the primary byproduct of aluminum refining. The...
Shares of Brazilian Rare Earths climbed 8.7 per cent after the company advanced plans to demerge its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project into a standalone ASX-listed entity, Alurion Resources Limited . The restructuring is designed to sharpen Brazilian Rare Earths’ focus on rare earth development...
Western Yilgarn said re-assaying work at its Cardea 1 project in Western Australia’s Darling Range has confirmed shallow gallium mineralisation across multiple target zones. The company believes the results strengthen the project’s potential as both a bauxite and critical minerals asset while also...
The USD 450 million partnership involves Atlantic Alumina Company and aims to maintain operations at the Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana while also building the country’s first large-scale gallium production circuit. The United States currently has no domestic gallium production and only one...
Brazilian Rare Earths Limited has announced plans to demerge its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Brazil into a new ASX-listed company, Alurion Resources Limited. The proposed move would establish Alurion as a standalone bauxite and critical minerals company with its own management team, board...
The Interministerial Committee for Strategic Investments of the Hellenic Republic has approved a new strategic investment by METLEN Energy & Metals in the ramp-up of gallium production capacity in Greece. It falls within the framework of METLEN's existing bauxite mining and alumina refining...
US Critical Materials Corp. and Columbia University have signed a two-year research agreement to study the recovery of critical metals from red mud, a waste product generated during aluminium refining. The project will focus on extracting gallium, scandium, titanium, and rare earth elements, which...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced about USD 5.4 million in funding for five projects to support a domestic supply of gallium, a key material used in defence and semiconductors. The US is currently fully dependent on imports for gallium and has not produced it domestically since 1987....
In 2025, the US alumina story begins with rising imports-but it quickly reveals a system under strain. US alumina imports surged to 1.77 million tonnes in 2025, up 32 per cent from 1.34 million tonnes in 2024, reversing a marginal 1 per cent dip from 1.36 million tonnes in 2023. It reads like a...
Pioneer Minerals, a US-based critical minerals explorer, has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mineral Technologies USA, a technology-based company that is into developing, producing and marketing a broad range of speciality minerals, mineral-based and synthetic...
Rio Tinto is undertaking a research and development project focused on extracting primary gallium from its alumina refining process in Quebec. This project received a conditional contribution approval from Natural Resources Canada as part of the Global Partnerships Initiative (GPI). This came to...
Gallium, an easy-to-melt critical mineral, has been emerging as a strategic resource in defence, semiconductor, and electric vehicle supply chains. At present, with the majority of gallium supply originating from China, the United States is motivated to accelerate efforts to diversify its sourcing....
Nearly ten years after announcing plans to extract gallium, National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) has yet to translate intent into execution. Back in 2016, the public sector aluminium producer had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) to jointly develop...
Evangelos Mytilineos, founder and CEO of Metlen Εnergy & Metals, posted on social media that the global industrial and energy company successfully produced 5 kilogrammes of gallium. It has marked a milestone in Europe’s critical minerals roadmap, since gallium, as a by-product of bauxite, plays a...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has backed METLEN Energy & Metals with EUR 90 million (USD 104.45 million) investments to support them to execute the modernisation of bauxite mining operations and gallium project. This investment is aimed at reducing the EU’s reliance on imported materials used...
