Rio Tinto To Collaborate With Canada Tech Firm Geomega On US$4 MM Bauxite Residue Project
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group announced this week a US$1.2 million investment in Quebec mining technology firm Geomega Resources...
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Guinean Government Seeks Bauxite Miners’ Plans For Domestic Alumina Refineries
The Guinean government last week asked companies operating bauxite mining operations to present plans for refining alumina within its borders by May of this year. The interim government that took power via coup in September has opted to take a harder line...
Rio Tinto Brings New US$8.4 MM Aluminium Remelt Furnace Online In Quebec
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group commissioned a new 22 thousand metric tons per annum remelt furnace at its Laterrière...
Australia Government Enacts Immediate Ban On Bauxite And Alumina To Russia
Last week the Australian government announced that it has banned with immediate effect the import of bauxite and alumina from...
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Rio Tinto To Sever Ties To Russian Businesses Due To Ukraine Invasion
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week it will sever all ties to businesses from the Russian Federation in light of that country’s invasion of Ukraine last month, joining a wide array of major firms that have announced their exodus from the country. Rio Tinto does not currently have any operations in either […]
Rio Tinto To Begin Removal Of Spent Pot Lining At Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter
Tiwai Point aluminium smelter’s majority stakeholder Rio Tinto Group says it will soon begin removing the hazardous spent pot lining from the site as part of its initiative to clean the site that has been used for aluminium production for half a century. The smelter has recently come under pressure to remove the hazardous substance […]
Rio Tinto To Install 16 New Low-Carbon Aluminium Smelting Pots At Quebec Smelter
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group will invest US$87 million at its Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean aluminium smelter to boost its low-carbon aluminium output. The investment will come in the form of sixteen new low-carbon aluminium smelting cells at the AP60 smelter. The sixteen new cells will boost the plant’s nameplate capacity by 26.5 thousand metric tons per […]
ELYSIS Zero-Carbon Aluminium Produced In Commercial-Sized Cells At Quebec Research Center
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group said this week that the zero-carbon aluminium offering ELYSIS has progressed to scaling up its production method to the size of small industrial cells of the size employed by the aluminium industry today. The low-carbon aluminium product, which is the result of a partnership between Rio Tinto and Alcoa, […]
Rio Tinto Extends 25-Year Bauxite R&D Partnership With Université Du Québec À Chicoutimi
Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Group and the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) renewed their longstanding partnership for an additional three years this week in order to continue research and development of methods for processing bauxite and bauxite tailings. The partnership began 25 years ago and has seen Rio Tinto invest over US$2 million […]
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 ...
