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May 21, 2021

Mechanical Vapour Recompression for Low Carbon Alumina Refining

The Alcoa Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) for Low Carbon Alumina Refining project will seek to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating…

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November 30, 2020

Bauxite Residue Storage using Sea Water Neutralisation

Sea water has been used, to neutralise bauxite residue at the Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) refinery for more than 30…

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September 15, 2020

Alcoa’s rehabilitation welcomes another 400,000 plants

Alcoa Australia is set to meet sustainability targets at its two bauxite mines in the Peel and South West regions…

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March 18, 2020

Rio Tinto Here for Gladstone

The Rio Tinto Here for Gladstone programme is our flagship community investment programme for the region. It is solely focussed…

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January 09, 2020

Turtle management at Weipa Operations

Feral animals are a well-known environmental problem in Australia and impact the environment in many ways. The predation of turtle…

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January 04, 2020

BSL partners with community to care for clownfish

Following the release of the ‘Finding Nemo’ film in 2003, clownfish popularity has increased significantly, with more than one million…

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December 28, 2019

Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI)

Rio Tinto is now offering independently certified, responsibly produced aluminium from its smelters in Australia and New Zealand that predominantly…

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November 02, 2019

Aluminium and Fire

Cladding fires of recent times indicate that wrong assumptions about risk may have been made. Cladding fires of recent times…

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October 30, 2019

BSL’s EBITS Centre

The EQIP Business, Industry and Tourism Skills Centre (EBITS) Centre is a partnership between Education Queensland and Boyne Smelters Limited,…

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October 28, 2019

Brisbane Bauxite Integrated Operations Centre (BIOC)

In August 2019, the switch was flicked on Rio Tinto’s Brisbane-based Bauxite Integrated Operations Centre (BIOC), transforming how the Aluminium…

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