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Columbia Falls aluminium smelter
The smelter has been idled since 2009. Wood Mackenzie’s asset reports are built from the bottom up, incorporating a number of granular data metrics...
Cracks emerge in Trump’s Section 232 aluminium tariff wall
President Trump’s Section 232 directive for aluminium opens up a Pandora’s box of trade conflict and legal confusion. At the time of writing, Canad...
Cyanide Insight: Grey zone of the yellow metal
Cyanidation is a method of leaching gold from ores and is especially beneficial for recovering gold from low-grade deposits, with many of the world...
Dachaidan gold mine
Dachaidan (formerly Tanjianshan) was a conventional open pit operation carried out by a mining contractor. Ore is refractory in nature. The process...
China zinc mine consolidation will maintain output growth
Chinese authorities have taken an increasingly stringent stance on zinc mining since 2015 in an attempt to raise the environmental and safety stand...
China’s aluminium smelting power constraints are here to stay
On 26 August, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the “Notice on Improving Tiered Power Tariffs for the Aluminium Industry...
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