Word: alumina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants will be in Massena, N.Y., the Bonneville Dam region, somewhere in Arkansas. In Arkansas Alcoa will also build a plant to produce 400,000,000 lb. a year of alumina (intermediate step between bauxite ore and the finished metal). The plants (cost: $52,000,000) will be operated by Alcoa under a five-year lease. For its managerial services, Alcoa will get a meager 15% of the profits, the Government the rest...
...Alcoa wastefully ships raw materials and finished products: bauxite from the Guianas and Arkansas to East St. Louis, alumina from there to Vancouver, ingots from Vancouver back to the East, rolled sheets from the East back to California, all costing 2? a lb. for freight alone...
...process will, it is calculated, make alumina (from which aluminum is reduced) for $35 a ton against $33 by the Hall process. But the alunite process yields one-half ton of sulfate potash worth $18.12 and one-third ton sulfuric acid worth $6, as byproducts. Moreover, alunite-aluminum uses less electricity than Hall-produced aluminum. Kalunite hopes to borrow up to $16,000,000 from RFC to build two plants in Marysvale, Utah, perhaps a third in Washington's White River Valley. Both sites are near supplies of alunite ore, also not too far from titanic Grand Coulee, which...
...critical materials are in TVA mountains. To make sure that no TVA assets are overlooked, David Lilienthal keeps a staff of researchers hard at work. Last week he announced that one of them, frail M. I. T. man John Henry Walthall, had developed a new process for extracting alumina (raw material of aluminum) from common clay, which abounds in TVAland. Other TVA discoveries include methods for making a cork insulation substitute out of vermiculite (a mica-like rock), for deriving magnesium from olivine, plastics from cottonseed hulls...