Ashapura Minechem is preparing for its next phase of growth by expanding its Guinea bauxite operations while shifting its Indian business towards higher-value mineral products. The company is targeting 15 million tonnes of annual bauxite volumes by FY28, a level management believes could generate...
China's domestic ore prices held steady last week. In Shanxi, a limited volume of relatively lower-grade domestic ore was concluded under long-term contracts at approximately RMB 530 per tonne. In Henan, the expected increase in domestic ore output has yet to materialise, leaving the supply-demand...
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Bauxite mined by Guinea’s biggest producer Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee- a company owned by io Tinto Plc, Alcoa Inc., Dadco Alumina & Chemicals Ltd. and the government, has been the country’s steadiest source of income since it first produced the ore forty years ago. The company is all set to...
KU Leuven (University of Leuven) is organizing the “Bauxite Residue Valorisation and Best Practices Conference” in Leuven, Belgium from 5-7 October, 2015. The European Training Network for Zero-Waste Valorisation of Bauxite Residue (Redmud) will participate in the event. The organizing committee...
In a bid to fast-track mineral extraction, the centre will conduct auction of mines bearing minerals such as iron ore, bauxite and limestone on behalf of states for the first phase starting November this year. In phase I, the 12 mineral-producing states have identified 80-90 blocks that will go...
The General Court of the European Union has annulled the sanctions listing of the Iranian Aluminum Company (Iralco), Iran’s top state-owned holding company in the mining sector says. The Luxembourg-based court voted to remove Iralco from the list of entities subject to asset freeze, the public...
The Bua Urban Youth Network has called for wider consultations for the bauxite mining in Wainunu district. A release from the group stated that landowners should, by right be consulted and given the necessary information to ensure their consent is informed. "This also means that landowners and...
Guinea is in talks with China International Water & Electric Corp. to build a $2 billion hydro-power dam that would almost double the West African country’s energy output, providing new capacity for the expansion of bauxite processing, said Lansana Fofana, an energy ministry official. The...
The bauxite mine of Navratna PSU National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO), situated at Panchpatmali Hill in Odisha's Koraput district, has bagged the prestigious Pollution Control Excellence Award -2015. The award, instituted by State Pollution Control Board, Odisha (OSPCB) was conferred on NALCO in...
Vedanta’s doomed Lanjigarh alumina refinery which has been facing severe bauxite ore shortage has little hope of survival as the efforts to mine bauxite from the proposed Karlapat area in Odisha’s Kalahandi district face opposition from tribal organizations like Lok Sangram Manch (LSM) and...
Metro Mining may be required to submit a full Environment Impact Statement for its Bauxite Hills project at Cape York, Queensland. On 10th August, the company lodged its Site Specific Environment Authority Application for the project with the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage...
The vanua of Wainunu in Bua has agreed to bauxite mining. However, it has made its stand clear that proper preliminary work needs to be done first including an environment impact assessment report. Tui Wainunu Ratu Orisi Baleitavea confirmed the bose vanua of Wainunu (traditional leaders meeting)...
Fiji has exported $48 million worth of bauxite so far from the shores of Bua in the Northern Division. But the drop in global demand has affected export and slowed work progress at the mines this year. Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Ltd executive Derek Qiu confirmed although works continued, operations...
Outotec has established a dewatering technology centre in Lappeenranta, Finland to develop new products, processes and services for solid-liquid separation and raw material reuse for the entire life cycle of processing plants. Tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the...
Union Minister of Steel and Mines, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar met Western Australian Premier, Mr Colin Barnet in latter's office in West Perth, Australia, last week Friday. Tomar is leading a delegation of the Indian mining industry to Sydney for Asia Pacific Mining Exhibition (AIMEX) 2015, one of...
In an effort to add value to the country’s mineral resources and more importantly to create jobs Indonesian government has decided not to relax its ban on export of bauxite and other minerals in its upcoming stimulus policy package. This is significant because the ban has already cost Indonesia,...
Saudi government recently unveiled a series of giant investment and partnership plans in sectors including oil and gas, mining, civil infrastructure, and banking as a part of a 21st century vision of the cooperation with its long-term ally the United States of America. The vision was presented by...
After a gap of six years, UC Rusal Alpart bauxite/alumina operations have finally swung into action. A cargo ship- Vyritsa is being loaded with 35,000 tonnes of bauxite at Alpart’s Port Kaiser facility and is scheduled to leave for Ukraine later this week. “This is the first major economic activity...
International Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium Society (IBAAS), China Aluminium International Engineering Corporation Limited (Chalieco) and Suzhou Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (SINR) have jointly announced that the Fourth IBAAS symposium (IBAAS-CHALIECO-SINR 2015) will be held in Suzhou...
No approval is being given to any party willing to undertake bauxite mining in Terengganu as the state government has frozen all new applications at the moment. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman said bauxite mining in Kemaman caused serious pollution problems. He said the freeze...
