Half state owned Norwegian aluminum company Hydro is accused of serious environmental damage in Brazil. In addition to a leak of toxic mining debris that has contaminated several communities in Barcarena, the Norwegian giant Hydro is accused to have used a ...
Read More »Rio Tinto investing $250 million to extend life of Vaudreuil alumina refinery
SAGUENAY, Que. — Rio Tinto says it’s investing $250 million in its Vaudreuil alumina refinery in Quebec to extend the life of the operation past 2022. The company says work on the refinery, located in the Saguenay region of the ...
Read More »Rio Tinto and GMR partner to explore potential use for bauxite residue
Rio Tinto is partnering with Global Mineral Recovery, Incorporated, (GMR) of Worcester, MA, an innovator in processing fine particle industrial residue using environmentally friendly technology, to explore the potential to extract minerals from the bauxite residue produced by its Vaudreuil ...
Read More »ICSOBA 2017
The 35th International Conference and Exhibition of ICSOBA will be held in the Radisson Blu hotel in Hamburg, Germany from 2 to 5 October, 2017 in cooperation with TRIMET and DADCO. Objectives of the Conference are to: • Review ...
Read More »RUSAL produces first output of scandium oxide
The new product output commenced at the Urals aluminium smelter (“UAZ”) after the installation and launch of the pilot unit for the processing of scandium concentrate into scandium oxide. Experts at RUSAL Engineering and Technology Centre earlier developed the unique ...
Read More »Open Vacancy EU MSCA H2020 ETN Project
Applications are invited for the one PhD position (“Early Stage Researcher”) to be funded by the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network “REDMUD – European Training Network for Zero-Waste Valorisation of Bauxite Residue” within the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission. ...
Read More »Red mud farming and more
Get introduced to red mud farming and Kylie, and also get updated about other relevant to redmud items. Video: From early childhood to working in red mud Source: THE OBSERVER [jwplayer mediaid=”681″] KYLIE Parkhill is “one of the best mud farmers” ...
Read More »Yes we can!
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Read More »BRAVO – Bauxite Residue and Aluminium Valorisation Operations
BRAVO is a European Innovation Partnerships (EIP) Commitment, that is, is a joint undertaking by several partners, who commit to activities aimed at achieving the EIP’s objectives between 2014 and 2020. The ultimate aim of the EIP on Raw Materials is ...
Read More »Postdoc position on red mud research at the University of Guelph
Dear red mud interested readers, there is a post-doc position at the University of Guelph, Canada, in the group of Prof. Marcel Schlaf. Read below! “We are looking for a post-doc to work on our ongoing project on ...
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