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...
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Rio Tinto Plans US$29 MM Addition Of Scrap Aluminium Recycling Facility At Arvida Plant In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week a US$29 million capex to build a new aluminium recycling plant at its Arvida facility in Quebec. The project will make Rio Tinto the first of North America’s primary aluminium producers to use...
Rio Tinto and Ford To Collaborate On Stronger Supply Of Low-Carbon Aluminium And Other Sustainable Materials
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group and American automaker Ford Motor Company have partnered to work together on developing more...
Rio Tinto Plans US$188 MM Capacity Boost To Alma Aluminium Smelter In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week it plans a US$188 million expansion of low-carbon aluminium billet production...
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Guinean Government Extends Deadline For Alumina Refinery Plans After None Are Submitted
The Guinean government has extended the deadline for bauxite firms to present plans for construction of in-country alumina refineries by another ten days last week, pushing back a deadline that lapsed at the end of last month. According to the country’s ruling junta, part of the rationale for the extension is a lack of interest […]
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 […]
Rio Tinto’s Quebec Plant Produces North America’s First High Purity Scandium Oxide
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group’s affiliate Rio Tinto Fer et Titane (RTFT) delivered the initial batch of high purity scandium oxide for commercial sale at the Sorel-Tracy plant in Quebec this week. The Sorel-Tracy plant will become the first plant in North America to produce scandium oxide, which is used as an alloy in […]
Rio Tinto Teams Up With Canadian Clean Tech Firm Geomega On Bauxite Residue Recycling Technology
Canadian clean technology firm Geomega Resources Inc. subsidiary Innord Inc. and Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group are partnering to develop a new method for handling bauxite ore residue (“red mud”) to bring to market recoverable iron compounds found within it. Per the agreement, Rio Tinto will provide C$1 million of the C$4 million needed […]
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 ...
