Apr. 02, 2019 – In March, on the one hand, shortage of supply continues for several refractory raw materials; on the other hand, price decline keeps going forward for some types of minerals. Calcined bauxite met no significant improvements both in price and in supply, but biding proceedings started for bauxite ore mine in Xiaoyi. …

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82 million tons of bauxite reserves were proved in China  2019-03-27 Mar. 27, 2019 – On February, 14th, the Department of Natural Resources of Shanxi Province announced that they have confirmed 82 million tons of bauxite reserve after hard work over the past years. Actually, the local government has checked 60 previous projects and distributed …

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The removal of US sanctions on producer Rusal has added strength to Alcoa’s forecast of a surplus in alumina in 2019. United States-based Alcoa, the world’s eighth-largest aluminium producer, has forecast that there will be a surplus of alumina in 2019 while it increases aluminium metal shipments. There was a 600,000-tonne deficit of alumina at …

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El pasado martes 4 de junio tuvieron lugar en la sede de Anfre en Madrid las reuniones de la Junta Directiva y de los distintos comités, Comité de Montadores y Comité Técnico. En dichas reuniones se trataron temas de interés para Anfre y para el sector del refractario en general. Se ha comentado el gran …

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Mar. 05, 2019 – Local government in Sanmenxia, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, one of the main industrial districts for white fused alumina, brown fused alumina and other corundum minerals, announced a new round of production capacity restriction actions starting from 1st, March, lasting for 60 days. During this period, peak hour production restriction would be the …

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