Mining news: smelter
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, December 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm -
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Ausmelt Ltd has won its seventh copper smelter contract in China. The Company will supply design services and core equipment for a copper smelter with a production capacity of 100,000 tonnes a year of cathode copper. The client is Xinjiang Wuxin Copper Co., Limited and the new smelter will be located in China’s Xinjiang Province…..more [...]
By Mineweb - Daily news headlines, November 20th, 2009 at 12:13 am -
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The European Commission’s ruling that Italy must end its preferential electricity tariffs to Alcoa is a “dark day for European heavy industry,” Alcoa’s CEO Klaus Kleinfeld said.
By admin, July 29th, 2009 at 1:03 am -
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Ausmelt has successfully completed provision of its Top Submerged Lance (TSL) smelting technology for the new nickel smelting plant built by Jinchuan Nonferrous Metals, China’s largest nickel producer, in the Gansu Province of China. At more than 1 Mt/y of concentrate feed, it is presently Ausmelt’s largest operating smelting plant and the first application of TSL [...]
By Mining News, July 18th, 2008 at 11:36 am -
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When it is completed, RTA CEO Dick Evans says the new Kitimat Works will be “the most modern smelter anywhere in the world”. That’s because it will be using what’s called AP39 technology - Sohar, for example, …
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, June 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am -
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Kazzinc New Metallurgy Project Awarded for Technical Excellence
Brisbane, Australia, June, 23, 2008: The 2008 annual PACE Zenith Awards were announced in Sydney last week. MIPAC was honoured to receive the Award for Technical Excellence in the Metal Products Category for its contribution to the Kazzinc New Metallurgy Project in Kazakhstan.
MIPAC’s role was to design and [...]
By Mining News, June 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am -
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Alcoa Inc is talking to anyone who can help secure a reliable supply of low-cost power for its Rockdale, Texas, aluminum smelter after temporarily idling half of the facility’s production on Thursday, an Alcoa …
By Mining News, June 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am -
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Ghana’s government has bought Alcoa’s 10 percent stake in the 200,000 tonne/year VALCO aluminium smelter for $2 million, the West African country’s presidency said in a statement on Friday.
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, June 20th, 2008 at 5:12 pm -
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Alcoa today announced it will temporarily idle half the production at its Rockdale, Texas aluminum smelter effective today as a result of ongoing supply issues with Luminant’s onsite power generating unit, …more at topix
By Mining News, June 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm -
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Copper processing charges may drop again this year because supplies to smelters are falling short of demand, strengthening the position of mining companies in annual talks, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, June 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm -
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BHP Billiton Ltd hopes to export more nickel concentrates to other processing plants over the next four months while its Australian nickel smelter and refinery is closed for repairs, the miner said on Friday….more at topix
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, June 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm -
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Global miner BHP Billiton Ltd said on Thursday it has brought forward the rebuilding of a furnace at its Kalgoorlie nickel smelter due to deterioration, forcing the shutdown of its Kwinana refinery…more at topix
By InfoMine - Mining Equipment and Supplier News, June 12th, 2008 at 5:22 pm -
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The Sohar aluminium smelter, in Sohar, Oman, has poured its first metal and is expected to reach full production, at an initial 360 000 t/y, in December, diversified miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday….more at topix