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How Investments Play Into the Story of an Indian Aluminum Park
A Bahrain-based company, Midal Cables, announced its move to set up an aluminum conductor-and-rod manufacturing unit in the Indian state of Odisha. The total project will bring in about US $53 million in investment. The more important part of that story is the location of this new unit. Midal is keen on setting up this […]
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Legend International Holdings announces signing MOU with Alcoa of Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Legend International Holdings, Inc (Legend) LGDI +7.32% is pleased to announce it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alcoa of Australia Limited (“Alcoa”) to investigate a potential offtake agreement. The two companies have commenced preliminary discussions examining the viability of Legend supplying Alcoa with aluminium fluoride […]
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Icelandic farmer believes aluminium smelter killed his sheep
“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahreppur council leader. The farmer says he noticed last winter that an unusually high number of his sheep either died or had great difficulty feeding, DV reported. Closer inspection revealed that many of them had […]
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West Longview, WA: Alcoa plan for Reynolds cleanup completion coming next year
… The Pittsburgh-based company [ALCOA} is responsible for cleaning up the 416-acre site, which Reynolds contaminated for decades during aluminum smelting. Preliminary soil samples have indicated elevated levels of fluoride, cyanide and other hazardous materials, according to the state Department of Ecology, which oversees the study. The groundwater contains sulfate, fluoride and cyanide, agency officials […]
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Cleaned-up Reynolds Metals site in Troutdale sprouts promise
When the aluminum plant that Troutdale was built on finally died with a whimper in 2002, it was hard to hear over the din of east Multnomah County’s other troubles. The casthouse’s red-hot pots of molten Reynolds aluminum had already been going dark for years. Hundreds of pink-slipped workers drifted to other jobs, some on […]
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Global Fluorspar Market to Reach 5.2 Million Metric Tons by 2015
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Fluorspar markets. The global market for Fluorspar is forecast to reach 5.2 million metric tons by the year 2015. Aluminum fluoride markets are likely to spur demand for fluorspar in the coming few years. Demand for fluorspar in other areas such as aluminum smelters and […]
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UPDATE*: Bypass Under Way At Mozambique Smelter
*Adds information that bypass has begun. Story first moved Sep. 20, 2010 JOHANNESBURG, Nov 24 2010 (IPS) – Aluminium giant BHP Billiton’s Mozal smelter has begun bypassing its fume treatment centres, emitting potentially dangerous fumes into the air without treating them first – despite a pending court case on the matter. The company says it […]
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Mozambique: BHP Billiton plans six month bypass of smelter smokestack scrubbers
Maputo — Civil society groups are challenging a six-month authorisation granted aluminium giant BHP Billiton to emit potentially dangerous fumes from its Mozal smelter into the air without treating them first. In May, the government gave BHP Billiton’s Mozal smelter, located in the town of Matola, 17 kilometres from the capital, the go-ahead to bypass […]
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Hungarian sludge flood from the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka
Hungary yesterday declared a state of emergency in three of its 19 counties after the catastrophic release on Monday of at least 700,000 cubic metres of toxic sludge from a containment basin at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt aluminium plant near Ajka, around hundred kilometres southwest of Budapest. At least four people died and at least […]
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Boyne Smelters in Gladstone moves to reduce emissions
A central Queensland aluminium smelter has acknowledged it needs to substantially reduce its emissions to meet tough new environmental guidelines. Boyne Smelters Ltd (BSL) in Gladstone has been told it needs to reduce fluoride emissions by 20 per cent and particulate emissions by 30 per cent to meet new licensing requirements by the Department of […]
Australia Aluminum Industry
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