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Welcome to the Red Mud Project.

This site is dedicated to the support and promotion of all efforts being carried out worldwide for the utilisation of Bayer's process waste/by-product Red Mud.

The purpose of the site is to promote public awareness on the Red Mud problem by providing reliable information, and in addition: a) to be used as a reference point for discussions, presentation of scientific findings and ideas for technological solutions, b) to assist in ...(more)

"WA$TE is wasted if you waste it, otherwise it is a resource. Resource is wasted if you ignore it and do not conserve it with holistic best practices and reduce societal costs. Resource is for the transformation of people and society.

Recycle. Recycle as is. Recycle without additional processing (i. e., without adding any cost to it)."

(quote from www.cbu.uwm.edu)
We are a small group of researchers along with a number of partners and supporters. We hope that the number of people involved will increase soon. Please contact us in case you are interested.

Red Mud or Bauxite Residue is a waste/by-product produced from the alumina industry. The worldwide annual production is 120 million tones. Its disposal remains an issue of great importance with enviromental implications (more)

(pictures kindly granted for reproduction by Aluminium de Grèce)
28/11/2011 We uploaded a number of the presentations given during the International Seminar on Bauxite Residue (Red Mud), Oct. 17-19, Goa, India, in session 3 (Bauxite Residue as Feedstock). Our sincere thanks goes to the respective authors for responding to this call and sending us a copy of their work. See more here.
23/10/2011 We started a LinkedIn group to help the interaction and the communication among interested parties. You may want to look further here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Red-Mud-Project-3992829 and sign-in.
23/10/2011 The International Seminar on Bauxite Residue (red mud) recently finished in Goa, India and was a success. Read more and download the presentation on bauxite residue for cement making here.
11/7/2011 The 2nd Circular of the International Seminar on Bauxite Residue (red mud) is ready! To download click here.
31/3/2011 red mud symposium
30/1/2011 A presentation by Dr. Caner Zanbak, Environmental Advisor to the Turkish Chemical Manufacturers Association, on the Ajka accident is available (more)
30/1/2011 The key-note lecture by György (George) Bánvölgyi, on the 18th ICOBA symposium, titled: Red mud storage dam failure in Hungary: the most serious accident of the Bayer process, is available (more)
15/1/2011 The 18th International Symposium of ICSOBA was held in Zhengzhou, from 25 to 28 November 2010. See two presentations on-line on red mud valorisation (more)
15/1/2011 Press release from ICSOBA on the dam failure at Ajka (more)
15/1/2011 Colleagues from China have developed an excellent web site on red mud (more)
9/10/2010 On the accident at the Ajka bauxite refinery... (more)
26/7/2010 CSIRO's Bauxite, Residue and Disposal Database (BRaDD) is a web-based data platform that enables users to identify current practices worldwide in bauxite residue processing and storage, and evaluate options for sustainable utilisation of residue. (more)
26/7/2010 In TMS 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibition Light Metals, that took place in Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA, Anthimos Xenidis, Charalabos Zografidis, Ioannis Kotsis and Dimitrios Boufounos received the Best Paper award for their work: "Reductive Roasting and Magnetic Separation of Greek Bauxite Residue for its Utilization in Iron Ore Industry". Congratulations! (more)
21/9/2009 Platon Gamaletsos, is a PhD candidate at Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens, Greece, working on Greek bauxites. Mr. Gamaletsos is using a combination of thermal, spectroscopic and electron microscopic techniques. He is the new member in the Team of the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
5/9/2009 The International Committee for study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium (ICSOBA), has been already for 45 years a reference organization in terms of promoting the exchange of ideas and results from different fields of research related to bauxite exploration and exploitation, and alumina and aluminium production.

ICSOBA and the Red Mud Project have decided to join forces in order to work in synergy for projects of mutual interest. (more)
22/7/2009 Dr. Upendra Singh, presently working as scientist (Analytical Research Division) in Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre, Nagpur, India, is the new member in the Team of the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
16/6/2009 Dr. Suvarapu Lakshmi Narayana, a Post Doctoral Fellow, at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univeristy, Korea, has joined the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
23/2/2009 Two new papers on red mud utilisation in cement and ceramics' production have been published. Go to the download page (more)