Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter Begins Negotiations For Power Contract Beyond Planned 2024 Closing
New Zealand Aluminium Smelter (NZAS) said this week it has opened negotiations with local power companies on solutions for extending...
Australia
Rio Tinto Receives Multiple Offers For Wind, Solar Power Project For Australian Alumina And Aluminium Operations
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said last week that it has received many offers to build wind and solar farms in Australia intended to sustainably power its various alumina and aluminium operations there. Rio Tinto is actively soliciting offers to build...
ALCORE Commissions Trio Of New Lab Reactors For Production Of Aluminium Fluoride
Australian Bauxite Limited’s (ABx) subsidiary ALCORE Limited announced this week the commissioning of a trio of laboratory reactors at its...
Metro Mining To Boost Output At Bauxite Hills By 3.0 MM Wet Metric Tons
Australia’s Metro Mining Ltd. said this week that its board of directors has approved a capacity increase at Bauxite Hills...
Events
Australian Bauxite Reports Substantial Vein Of High-Grade Rare Earth Elements In Tasmania
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) said this week that the first results of test drills for rare earth elements (REE) at Deep Leads returned a substantial deposit of same. Per the firm, the first drill at the site in northern Tasmania showed a 33-foot-thick deposit of high-grade REE at between 13 and 16 feet of depth. […]
Rio Tinto Seeking Proposals For Renewable Energy Sources For Queensland Aluminium And Alumina Assets
Anglo-Australian mining titan Rio Tinto Group announced this week that it is soliciting proposals for wind and solar power projects for its operations in Queensland. Rio Tinto said it has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) to that end and is looking for sustainable energy alternatives for its three operations there, namely the Boyne aluminium […]
Rusal Sues Rio Tinto For Return Of 20 Percent Share Of Queensland Alumina
Russian Federation aluminium titan UC Rusal is suing Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group to receive back its 20-percent share of Queensland Alumina Ltd. that the latter firm took from Rusal in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. According to documents reviewed by Reuters, Rusal is pushing back against Rio Tinto’s […]
South32 Increases Its Share In Mozal Aluminium To 63.7 Percent
Australian metals miner South32 announced this week that it has purchased an additional 16.6 percent of Mozal Aluminium from MCA Metals Holding GmbH for about US$200 million. Per the firm, South32’s ownership of Mozal Aluminium now totals 63.7 percent, giving it an equity share of production of 281 thousand metric tons for the current fiscal […]
Australian Bauxite Says Test Results Promising For Ionic Adsorption Clay At Deep Leads Project
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) said this week that it has confirmed via testing the presence of ionic adsorption clay (IAC) at its Deep Leads project. The firm said in a statement that a dozen desorption tests on samples of rare earth elements (REE) at Deep Leads in Northern Tasmania yielded positive test results for IAC, […]
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 ...
