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Alumina: the world’s top producing countries and companies
Alumina is essential for the production of primary aluminium. It is obtained from bauxite ore through the Bayer process and serves as the primary raw material in the Hall-Héroult process, which extracts the non-ferrous metal, aluminium, from its powder form. The...
Rio Tinto acquires a stake in Sovereign Metals focused on graphite
Rio Tinto has agreed to buy a 15% stake in Australia's Sovereign Metals for A$40.4m ($27.6m), becoming a major investor in the critical minerals developer. The move by the world's second-largest miner marks its first public move into the graphite sector as it...
Chilean police stop a copper theft in Escondida
Eleven people were arrested by Chilean police after they were caught stealing four bags of copper concentrate from BHP’s Escondida mine in northern Chile, the largest in the world. The thieves, however, intended to steal much more metal, as they were carrying...
Materie prime critiche: l’Italia cambia le condizioni per l’export
According to the declaration in the Italian Official Gazette, the government has changed the conditions for the export of critical raw materials. Scrap, including non-Italian scrap, falls into the category of ‘critical raw materials’ and its exports must...
