Stoppage At Bécancour Smelter Dents Rio Tinto’s 2018 Aluminium Production By 3 Percent
Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto Group said earlier this week that it has cut aluminium production guidance for 2018 to...
Australia
After Eight-Year Journey, Altech Awarded Patent For Kaolin To High-Purity Alumina Process
Australian innovator Altech Chemicals Ltd. said yesterday that it has received a long-awaited patent for its unique process for producing high-purity alumina (HPA) from kaolin. Per Altech, the patent, which is for “A Method for the Preparation of Alumina,” covers the company’s...
ABx Announces Completion Of Design Phase In ALCORE Aluminium Fluoride Project
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) revealed yesterday that its wholly-owned subsidary ALCORE Limited recently completed the design phase of its Stage...
Rio Tinto’s Sale Of Aluminium Resources Brought Back To Life: Sources
According to sources professing knowledge of the situation, Rio Tinto Group’s sale of its aluminium assets has recently come back...
Events
Metro Mining Ships Record 822 Thousand Metric Tons Of Bauxite In September
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. updated investors on the progress of the Bauxite Hills Project last week, noting that the mine is operating at anticipated levels to date. Per the firm, September’s bauxite ore shipments totaled 822 thousand metric tons, bringing the mine’s total output since opening in April to 1.22 million wet metric tonnes. September’s […]
Management And Union Reach Accord At Alcoa’s Western Australia Operations, Ending Strike
A six-week-long strike will soon end at Alcoa’s Western Australia operations thanks to a new contract agreed to by the plants’ management and labor negotiators earlier this week. According to a statement by the Australia Workers’ Union (AWU), work is to resume Monday at the three alumina refineries and two bauxite mines in the state, […]
Labor And Management At Alcoa’s Western Australia Operations Meet Again To Discuss Contract Offer
Meetings between management and labor at Alcoa’s aluminium operations in Western Australia were scheduled for this week as the two sided continue to attempt to resolve the impasse that has prompted an over six-week-long strike. The meeting, which was to take place yesterday, was to discuss a newly-revised contract offer tendered by Alcoa. Both sides […]
Metro Mining Celebrates Shipment Of 1 Millionth Metric Ton Of Bauxite Since April
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. announced late last week the successful shipment of its one millionth metric ton of bauxite since beginning operations this spring. In a press release issued on Friday, Metro Mining revealed that the one millionth metric ton of bauxite ore was loaded onto a bulk carrier as part of a 60 thousand […]
Striking Workers At Alcoa’s Western Australia Bauxite And Alumina Operations Reject Contract Proposal
A proposal to end the strike at Alcoa Corporation’s bauxite and alumina operations in Western Australia was rejected by the plant’s trade union on Friday, allowing the month-long work stoppage to continue. The strike, which began on August 8, is the result of workers’ complaints regarding a new agreement that they say provides insufficient job […]
Zhongwang Fake Semis Prosecution May Slam The Door On Key Routes For U.S. Import Duty Avoidance
The global aluminium market has been watching the trials and travails of Chinese behemoth Zhongwang with intense interest for the past few weeks after the company and its founder Liu Zhongtian were brought up on criminal charges by the United States federal ...
Aluminium Prices Under Double Pressure: Trade Wars and Chinese Exports
Base metals prices tumbled to their lowest in several weeks at the start of August, after U.S. President Donald Trump ...
Dirty Metal – China’s Troublesome Tether Between Coal And Aluminium
The year 2019 has been a red-letter year for the aluminium sector in the People’s Republic of China. Despite trade ...
Is Rio Tinto’s ISAL smelter a bargain or a smart investment?
At least three companies (including Swiss commodity trader Glencore and German Trimet Aluminium) have expressed interest in buying Rio Tinto’s ...
