Facility

Rio Tinto Vaudreuil gallium demonstration

NRCan lists Rio Tinto Alcan for up to C$18.95 million to recover gallium from Bayer liquor produced at the Vaudreuil alumina refinery through testing, piloting, demonstration and deployment.

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Location: Saguenay, Quebec, Canada

Byproduct recovery

Vaudreuil Bayer-liquor gallium demonstration

Announced

Gallium recovery from Vaudreuil Bayer liquor

Material flow

Bayer Process Liquor (Gallium-Bearing) → Crude (Low-Purity) Gallium

Capacity

No capacity claim. Absence of a figure means no source publishes one.

Qualification

No qualification claim. Status does not imply qualified output.

Sources

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