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), […]

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 […]

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 […]

Australian Bauxite reports progress on aluminium fluoride

Tasmania’s bauxite miner is a step closer to selling high-value aluminium fluoride to Australiasian aluminium smelters. Australian Bauxite Limited, which mines near Campbell Town and has other Tasmanian and mainland deposits, said subsidiary ALCORE had proven it could chemically refine the company’s bauxite and its components into aluminium fluoride and several valuable co-products. “The ALCORE […]

Solvay Members Negotiate Improvements in New Contract

The 16 members of amalgamated Local 4294-03 at Solvay Fluorides, LLC’s Alorton, Ill., hydrogen fluoride plant ratified a new three-year agreement on July 19 that beat back concessions, improved wages, and created new health and safety language. Talks began July 9, and the old contract was set to expire Aug. 1. As bargaining grew near, […]

Spring Hope: Towns’ water susceptible to contamination

Spring Hope, Bailey and Middlesex received no violations in recent annual state-issued water reports, but seven of the 10 wells supplying water to the towns were listed as being highly susceptible to potential contamination. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources conducts yearly assessments of all drinking water sources across the state, listing all […]

Bauxite to leap over China’s aluminium smelting; While ABX plays downstream processing and PBX secures royalty

Bauxite, a natural product of weathering, is a major source of alumina production, which is further used to extract primary aluminium. Australia is the world’s top producer of bauxite and captures a significant share of the global bauxite supply chain. While the aluminium demand is supporting the bauxite demand, the Australian Department of Industry, Innovation […]

Disposal of SPL from aluminium industries

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ashok Kumar Patjoshi Vs Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 11/07/2019 regarding scientific disposal of Spent Pot Lining (SPL) which is produced by the smelting plants operated by the aluminum industries which contains high level of Cyanide and Fluoride which are […]

ABx’s ALCORE Begins Refining Bauxite Into Aluminium Fluoride

Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) updated the market on Wednesday as to progress on the ALCORE Limited project, noting that it has achieved the project’s third milestone on the road to commercial production of aluminium fluoride (AlF3). ABx says the project has begun chemical refining of bauxite ore into aluminium fluoride with the removal of silicon […]

Oct exports of anhydrous aluminium fluoride up 237% YoY

SHANGHAI, Nov 30 (SMM) – China exported some 11,154 mt of anhydrous aluminium fluoride in October, down 19% from September, but up 237% from October 2017, showed data from China Customs on Thursday November 29. In October, Russia remained China’s largest export destination for anhydrous aluminium fluoride, a raw material in aluminium smelting. Exports to Russia surged 102% […]