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100% Silkem Hungary, specialty alumina only since 2013 Hungary MOTIM-Magyarovar Alumina 75 GPS Kft., [23] specialty alumina only since 2002 India Hindalco, Belgaum Alumina Refinery 138 100% Hindalco: Russia Boksitogorsk Alumina Refinery: 100% United Company of Rusal [1] USA Baton Rouge, Louisiana specialty alumina only [24] 100% Honeywell [25] USA
It mines and manufactures bauxite, alumina and primary aluminium. Rio Tinto Aluminium is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group and provides about 20% of Australia's total production of bauxite, 8% of its alumina and 24% of its primary aluminium. In 2002, Rio Tinto Aluminium earned US$256 million for its shareholder Rio Tinto.
The alumina refinery is capable of producing 3.4 million tonnes of alumina each year and employs over 700 people. [14] Orica operates an ammonium nitrate plant at Reid Road; it produces over 500,000 tonnes per year for use in the mining industry in Australia and overseas.
This is a list of oil refineries.The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery.
Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) is a subsiduaty of Alcoa. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite , [ 1 ] the extraction of alumina ( aluminium oxide ) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market.
Construction of the smelter commenced in 1979 and the plant was officially opened in 1982. The concept of an aluminium industry in the state of Queensland, Australia began in 1957 when the Queensland Government and Comalco's predecessor signed an agreement giving the company the right to develop a large bauxite deposit discovered two years earlier at Weipa on the remote far North West coast of ...
It is also commonly referred to as alumina or aloxite [1] in the mining, ceramic and materials science communities. It is produced by the Bayer process from bauxite . Its most significant use is in the production of aluminium metal, although it is also used as an abrasive due to its hardness and as a refractory material due to its high melting ...
Global demand for alumina. Bauxite is currently the only economically viable raw material to produce alumina. [9] Therefore, any shifts in demand for alumina will also create shifts in demand for the bauxite industry in Australia. This could be increased demand for bauxite ore so countries can produce their own alumina or increased demand for ...