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Alcore samples set for smelters

AUSTRALIAN Bauxite-subsidiary Alcore will start building a Stage 1 pilot plant on NSW’s Central Coast to produce aluminium fluoride (AlF3) test samples, in preparation for construction of a production plant that will produce 50,000 tonnes per year of AlF3 and co-products, including corethane.

 The plans for the Alcore plant

The plans for the Alcore plant

Alcore will take advantage of bauxite beneficiation and refining technology to covert raw bauxite worth around $50 per tonne into products worth more than $1000 per tonne of bauxite produce.  The high-value...

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