Preliminary Design Work Completed At Australian Bauxite’s ALCORE Ltd Plant
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) updated the market on the progress of its partially-owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited this week. ABx said...
Australia
Australian And Chinese Scientists Develop New Aluminium Ion Batteries
Researchers in Australia and the People’s Republic of China have taken the first step in developing the first-ever safe, efficient, and non-toxic aqueous aluminium radical battery. In an article in the Journal of American Chemistry, scientists from Flinders University and Zhejiang Sci-Tech...
Alumina Limited Comes To Alcoa’s Bauxite Operations Defense In Western Australia
Australia’s Alumina Limited is supporting Pittsburgh’s aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation’s bauxite mining project in Australia against a pushback in Western...
ASI Certifies Portland Aluminium Under Performance Standard V2
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) this week certified Alcoa’s smelting and casting operations at Portland, Australia under its Performance Standard...
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Australian Bauxite Limited Boosts Mineral Resource Estimate At Deep Leads – Rubble Mound To Over 20 MMT
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) updated its Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for Deep Leads – Rubble Mound project this week, raising it above 20 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE). The company said that the MRE increased by 50 percent since the last assessment. Infill assaying of the area raised resource thickness by ten […]
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter Strikes Deal With Meridian On Power Consumption
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) has reached a deal with local energy provider Meridian Energy to allow the firm greater leeway when the plant’s power demands rise. The new deal gives Meridian the right to require NZAS to cut its power demand by up to 50 megawatts in times of peak usage, power generation reduction, […]
Altech Launches New Low-Maintenance Sodium Alumina 1.0 MWh GridPack
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. and joint-venture partner Fraunhofer IKTS announced the launch of its 1.0 megawatt-hour GridPack design last week. Dubbed CERENERGY Sodium Alumina Solid State (SAS) 1.0 MWh GridPack (ABS1000), the battery pack is designed specifically with renewable energy and the grid storage market in mind. Altech says the solid-state sodium alumina Cerenergy […]
Australian Bauxite Reports New Testing In Tasmania Triples Estimated REE Resource
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) updated the market this week on the estimated volume of rare earth elements (REE) at its Deep Leads project in Tasmania, noting a 350 percent increase to 13.9 million metric tons. The firm said in a press release that the Mineral Resource Estimate covered only 16 percent of the area the […]
Alcoa Australia Slashes Production At Portland Aluminium To 75 Percent
Pittsburgh aluminium pioneer Alcoa Corporation announced last week that its joint venture Portland Aluminium is scaling back production to 75 percent, citing operational stability as the motive. The site’s nameplate capacity is 358 thousand metric tons per annum, but will be operating at around 268.5 thousand metric tons per annum once the cuts are complete. […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
