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. Red Mud Lake 4 at the Atalco alumina refinery in Gramercy suffered numerous levee breaches, spilling arsenic, cadmium, chromium ...

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 ...

This article is the first in a series on the environmental costs of America’s last remaining alumina refinery. GRAMERCY — For several months, a River Parishes refinery unlawfully discharged industrial ...

BURNSIDE — Two months ago, officials with LAlumina LLC, a private startup that hoped to bring the old Ormet alumina complex to profitability, announced continued economic challenges would force them ...

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A team at Rice University has unveiled a fast and cleaner method to extract aluminum and strip toxic metals from bauxite residue, also called red mud. The hazardous by-product of aluminum production ...