March 16, 2011

Industry Celebrates 125 Years of Commercial Aluminum Production

One hundred and twenty-five years ago this month, Charles Martin Hall discovered a method by which to produce aluminum commercially—transforming it from a precious metal to an everyday material. It…

March 13, 2011

Orbite produces first ton of alumina

Exploration Orbite (TSX VENTURE:ORT.A) is pleased to announce that it has successfully produced its first ton of high purity alumina and has done so ahead of schedule and on budget.…

March 11, 2011

AMG enters into tantalum supply agreements

AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group N.V. (“AMG,” EURONEXT AMSTERDAM: “AMG”) through its Advanced Materials Division, entered into supply agreements with traditional customers for […]

March 5, 2011

Aluminum’s band of resistance is between $2,400 and $2,600

Business Line believes the band of resistance for aluminum, which closed at US$2,567.5 per tonne on the LME spot on Friday, is […]

February 18, 2011

Rusal Trails Alcoa With Owner’s $12.8 Billion Snub to Investors

Bloomberg News reports: United Co. Rusal, the biggest aluminum producer, is trailing Alcoa Inc. and all other peers as billionaire founder Oleg Deripaska snubs […]

February 8, 2011

Fund flows pushing commodities prices higher, but at what cost?

Citigroup’s Metals and Mining team issued a note Monday talking about how fund flows - not global economic growth - are driving commodities prices higher.

January 31, 2011

India seeing growth in aluminium, coal, iron ore and more – IM reports

The March issue of International Mining will include a detailed report onthe mining industry of India and its future plans. It is […]

January 31, 2011

China’s Chalco Aluminum plans $1.4bln share sale

New A-shares issue to be limited to maximum of 10 investors. Proceeds of share issue to fund Xing Xian alumina project.

January 30, 2011

Aluminum Market Walking Into A Bullish 2011

The aluminum market's lifeblood is manufacturing and packaging - and times are looking better in these early days of 2011. The metal is now trading at $2,505 per metric ton…

January 28, 2011

RUSAL co-owner says he expects new Norilsk offer

RUSAL, the world’s top aluminium producer, expects a new offer from Norilsk Nickel for its 25 percent stake in the nickel giant, […]