PROCESSING

Alcore the alchemist

RAW bauxite rocks have been reduced to iron-dust and clear liquor in a matter of minutes at the Alcore Research Centre on New South Wales’ Central Coast as Australian Bauxite-subsidiary Alcore starts the process to turn bauxite into aluminium fluoride.

 Stage 1 of the ALCORE Mini-Production Plant

Stage 1 of the ALCORE Mini-Production Plant

Alcore's patent pending process chemically refines bauxite into aluminium fluoride, or AlF3, and valuable co-products such as corethane, a pure hydrocarbon powder made from low-value coal used as a gas...

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