Rio Tinto Begins Scandium Oxide Production At Quebec Plant
Anglo-Australian metals mining giant Rio Tinto Group said last week it is beginning to produce high-quality scandium oxide for use...
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Mitilineos Developing New Methods For Scandium Production From Bauxite
Greek energy company Mitilineos announced last week its plan to enhance the use of its more economical method for extracting rare earth elements like scandium from bauxite ore. Mitilineos will be developing the new methods for scandium extraction from bauxite ore as...
Rio Tinto Inks Agreement To Provide Amaero With Specialty Aluminium-Scandium Alloy For 3D Printing
Anglo-Australian metals titan Rio Tinto Group has agreed to provide additive metal manufacturer Amaero with its first batch of specialty...
Rio Tinto Develops Method For Production Of Aluminium-Strengthening Scandium From Titanium Oxide Refining Waste
Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto said last week it has identified a process to extract scandium from mining waste for...
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Rusal Mulling Industrial-Scale Production of Scandium Oxide from Red Mud
With the results of a successful pilot program in hand, Russian Federation aluminium behemoth U. C. Rusal revealed yesterday that plans are in the works to build a scandium oxide (Sc2O3) production unit at Urals Aluminium Smelter (UAZ). Rusal says the results from a series of test programs over the past several years proving up […]
Rusal Produces First Batch of Scandium Oxide
Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal announced yesterday that it had for the first time produced scandium oxide at a concentration exceeding 99%. According to the firm, the achievement occurred at its smelter in the Ural mountains known as UAZ. Rusal previously installed and launched a pilot unit that was designed to process scandium concentrate into […]
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 ...
