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Just add water: Alcoa proposes discharging cyanide [and fluoride] into Badin Lake
Badin Lake is a popular fishing and swimming destination. It is also a drinking water supply for the Badin, New London and Albemarle in Stanly County. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) To try to comply with state water quality requirements, the company has a creative, if dubious solution. A proposed deal between Alcoa and the NC […]
United States, North Carolina Aluminum Industry -
Alufluoride to commence operations at expanded Aluminium Fluoride plant
Expanded plant trails were taken from 29th November 2020 In a filing to the exchanges on Tuesday, Alufluoride Ltd intimated that its Visakhapatnam Aluminium Fluoride plant expansion works completed on November 28, 2020. And the expanded plant trails, according to the company, were taken from November 29, 2020. The company expects that the expanded plant […]
India Aluminum Industry -
Recycling of Spent Pot Lining First Cut from Aluminum Smelters by Utilizing the Two-Step Decomposition Characteristics of Dolomite
Abstract Spent Pot Lining First Cut (shortened to SPL-1cut) is a solid waste discharged from a primary aluminum electrolytic production process. SPL-1cut is classified as hazardous waste in China because it contains large amounts of soluble sodium fluoride and a tiny amount of cyanide. Most of SPL-1cut is carbon-about 65%-and its calorific value is 22.587 […]
China Aluminum Industry -
Alcore proves economics
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – An economic assessment of ASX-listed Australian Bauxite’s planned Alcore processing plant, has shown that it would land in the lowest cost quartile of global aluminium fluoride production. Australia’s aluminium smelters are currently entirely reliant on imported aluminium fluoride, with more than 26 000 t imported from China alone over the past 12 […]
Australia Aluminum Industry -
Thermal behaviors of fluoride during (co-)incinerations of spent potlining and red mud: Transformation, retention, leaching and thermodynamic modeling analyses
Highlights Inorganic fluoride behaviors of spent potlining co-incineration were quantified. Addition of red mud positively affected fluoride transformations. . 30% red mud reduced fluoride leaching rate and enhanced retention rate of bottom ash. 66.01% of the total fluoride of the bottom ash was found to be insoluble fluorine. SiO2 and Al2O3 positively affected NaF conversion […]
International Aluminum Industry -
Australian Bauxite nets key player for aluminium fluoride quest
Tasmania’s bauxite miner has announced a key appointment as it pushes towards producing lucrative aluminium fluoride through an innovative refining process. The Australian Bauxite Limited project is expected to lead to a production plant at Bell Bay, north-west of Launceston. That would provide about 50 direct jobs early on, increasing to about 78 when a […]
Australia Aluminum Industry -
Aluminium Association of India Seeks Reduction in Customs Duty on Input Materials
Indian aluminium industry has urged the government to reduce the basic customs duty on critical raw materials like aluminium fluoride, stating that high import duties are a huge disadvantage as they make Indian finished goods costlier and uncompetitive in the international markets. Aluminium Association of India said “To improve the cost structure of the Indian […]
India Aluminum Industry -
New aluminium fluoride factory to provide 100 jobs in Maan
Jordan Phosphate Mines Company Chairman Muhammad Thneibat and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alufluoride Limited of India Venkat Narayanan sign an agreement to establish a factory to produce aluminium fluoride in Jordan on Wednesday (Petra photo) AMMAN — The Jordan Chemicals Company, which is fully owned by the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), […]
Jordan Aluminum Industry -
Moose Jaw: No Fluoride, No Problem? Not According to Health Authorities
The Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant will receive a new fluoridation system if City Council approves a budget increase for the project worth $2.3 million. Moose Jaw residents have been without Saskatchewan Health Authority requirements for fluoridated water for “about a year” due to mechanical failures at the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant. The City’s […]
Canada Canada, Saskatchewan Aluminum Industry -
Testing shows pollution still too high at former N.C. smelting plant
Contamination levels of cyanide and fluoride at Alcoa’s Badin Works facility in Badin, North Carolina, are higher than a new permit allows. (© Nancy Pierce/Flight by Southwings) Residents of the community surrounding North Carolina’s Badin Lake celebrated in June when SELC negotiated a settlement requiring a former aluminum smelting operation, shuttered in the ‘90s, to […]
United States, North Carolina Aluminum Industry
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