Aluminum production creates a toxic byproduct known as red mud. In an effort to cut down on this waste, researchers have figured out a way to send electric pulses through the mud to purify it and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team at Rice University has unveiled a fast and cleaner method to extract aluminum and strip toxic metals from bauxite residue, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aerial view of Atalco refinery covered in red dust with shipping dock on Mississippi River The Atlantic Alumina, a.k.a. Atalco, ...

A team of researchers at Rice University has developed a faster and cleaner method for recovering aluminum and removing toxic metals from bauxite residue, or red mud, which is a hazardous by-product ...

For years, toxic and slightly radioactive red mud and dust from the waste ponds of a shuttered alumina plant have bothered neighborhoods near Gonzales. But local leaders are working on a solution to ...

GONZALES — The last Saturday in April started like many others for Ashanti White at her home in Pelican Point subdivision — warm and sunny. Then the sky turned red. “I was shocked the dust was so ...

Aluminum, one of the most commonly used metals in manufacturing, has a dark side. Its production generates a byproduct called bauxite residue—or “red mud”—that contains toxic minerals and has a highly ...

A plan may finally be in the works to cap an alumina plant's piles of toxic and slightly radioactive "red mud" that have littered neighborhoods with dust for years along the Mississippi River south of ...

HOUSTON, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MTM Critical Metals (ASX: MTM; OTCQB: MTMCF) announced it has signed a memorandum of Understanding with Vendanta, Ltd., a global giant in aluminum production ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – A River Parishes refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste containing arsenic, cadmium, ...