Mozambique plans to invest around USD 126 million in a solar power plant to supply electricity to mining companies in Gaza Province, southern Mozambique, according to state news agency AIM. Provincial governor Alfeu Cuna announced the plan at the Conference on Adding Value to Mineral Resources (CAVAME-d 2026) in Nacala. The project aims to strengthen electricity supply for mining operations and industries linked to mineral processing. Gaza Province has heavy mineral sands deposits at Chibuto and limestone at Mabalane. The government is also planning mineral processing facilities in Mabalane and Mapai, where limestone deposits have been identified. Other mineral resources in the province could support cement production and related industries. Explore the production, demand and consumption...
Nimba Mining Company SA has appointed Patrice L'Huillier as Director General and Djiba Diakité as Chairman of the Board of Directors, with both appointments confirmed through separate presidential decrees. The announcement was made on Friday, October 23, 2026, during a national television news broadcast. L'Huillier, a civil engineer specialising in bridges and roads, will serve as Director General for an initial three-year term, which is renewable. According to his appointment decree, he will work under a performance contract with the Ministry of Mines and Geology. The contract will establish his objectives, the methods for assessing his performance and his obligations regarding the transfer of skills to national staff. In a separate decree, Diakité, Minister Director of the Cabinet of...
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Metro Mining is on a roll after announcing a 398% increase in its ore reserve at the Bauxite Hills Project from 12.1 million tonnes to 48.2 million tonnes, enough for a 27 year mine life. However, even better news, the project at Cape York in Queensland could be in construction mode in second quarter 2016 and producing by fourth quarter 2016. This would be at a rate of up to 2 million tonnes of Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) per year. The Bauxite Hills Project is situated 95 kilometres north of Weipa on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula and five kilometres south-east of the port at Skardon River. The project has a high grade total alumina of 50.2% and reactive silica of 6.3%, which is typical of Western Cape York bauxite deposits destined for export. An update of the geological model resulted...
After securing the Karlapat bauxite mine in favour of Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), the state government has moved the Union mines ministry to reserve yet another bauxite deposit - Sasubohumali mine in the name of the state-owned PSU. "The government has already written to the central mines ministry to reserve the Sasubohumali bauxite mine in OMC's favour. We are awaiting the approval from the ministry," said a top official source. The Sasubohumali bauxite mine in Rayagada district has an estimated reserve of 81 million tonne bauxite. The ministry had recently allocated the Karlapat bauxite mine to OMC. Karlapat, spread over 3,002.49 hectares, has estimated reserves of 207 million tonne which includes 153 tonne proven reserve and 54 million tonne probable reserve. The state government...
Queensland Bauxite’s recently concluded regional drilling program at the South Johnstone Bauxite Project in northern Queensland has identified 19 additional regional areas of mineralisation. The company is now carrying out infill drilling of the currently identified bauxite areas to report quality, quantity and grades of resources to JORC compliant standard. It has deployed a second drilling team this week to further accelerate the drilling program - with a particular focus on the high priority target areas that the company’s geologists believe to have the potential to host additional significant resources. This fast-tracked exploration of the high priority target areas will potentially enable the company to materially increase the level of JORC Indicated Resources throughout the current...
The state government would move the Union ministry of mines to recommend grant of mining lease (ML) over Karlapat bauxite mines in favour of Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC). The Centre, in March this year, had decided to allocate the Karlapat deposits to the state run miner following a request from the state government to reserve the mines in favour of the PSU. "We would soon make a recommendation to the Union mines ministry to grant ML in favour of OMC. The prospecting license (PL) is not necessary in case of Karlapat bauxite mines since prospecting has already been done by the Geological Survey of India," said a highly placed government official. The state government had moved the ministry in June 2013, seeking the Karlapat deposits in OMC's favour, stating that it will be in the...
IT firm Asdion Bhd is venturing into logistics business securing its first contract worth US$112mil (RM414mil) with Hong Kong International Mining Exchange Ltd (HKIM) for the supply of bauxite, the company told a local newspaper on Wednesday. Under the agreement, Asdion’s subsidiary will provide logistics-related services to HKIM for the delivery of a total of four million dry tonnes of bauxite at a base price of US$28 per dry tonne. The first delivery shall commence in July, according to Asdion’s announcement. StarBiz first reported in January that Asdion, a loss-making software maker, was expected to acquire private firm TAZ Logistics Sdn Bhd, marking its entry into the logistics and transportation sector. The company subsequently confirmed this and in February, paid RM6mil cash to...
Iran focuses on the country’s mining sector during the sixth five-year economic development plan (2015-2020) with plans of investing $15 billion to develop projects and increase production capacity of aluminium, steel and copper. The development plan aims to increase the output of aluminium to 800,000 tons, copper to 400,000 tons and similar increase in steel production capacity by 2020, stated Deputy Minister of Industries, Mines and Trade Mehdi Karbasian in an Iranian newspaper. "Iran ranks among the top 10 countries in the world in terms of mineral reserves which stands at an estimated 60 billion tonnes,” Karbasian said, also adding that more than 68 types of minerals were first discovered in the country. Nearly 25 percent of the minerals market in Middle East is claimed by Iran where...
Canyon Resources has moved a drill rig on to its bauxite project in Cameroon to follow up promise from earlier drilling that saw grades of bauxite encountered as high as 50% Al2O3 and low silica. Drilling will test 15 newly defined targets over the Mandoum and Birsok permits before the onset of the wet season with up to 3,000 metres of aircore drilling. The Birsok Bauxite Project is located in an emerging bauxite region of Cameroon, contiguous with the world class Minim Martap bauxite deposit and approximately 10 kilometres from an operating rail line and then a journey from Ngaoundal to Douala Port. Canyon will look to define a sufficient resource to support development of bauxite mining operation.
The Public Authority for Mining in Oman, a body under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has declared a rise in royalty rates from 5 to 10 percent which will be implemented from July 1, 2015. Companies and establishments in the mining sector are being urged by the Authority to "to settle all financial arrears relating to revenue submission before the rate rise decision comes into force on July 1". Although the Authority is a part of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, it functions as a separate entity working towards regulating the country’s mining industry which has been experiencing a boom in recent years, inviting interest from foreign and local operators. In 2013, the mining and quarrying sector contributed RO 107.7 million to the GDP, at a compound annual growth rate of 23 per...
The ore reserve at Metro Mining Ltd’s Bauxite Hills Project near Weipa has increased by 398% – from 12.1 million tonnes to 48.2 million tonnes. The company requested a share trading halt yesterday (Monday 1 June 2015) pending an announcement to the ASX today. Geological modelling updates provided by the Brisbane based miner to the ASX show a Proved Ore Reserve of 41.8 million tonne coupled with a 6.4 million tonne Probable Ore Reserve. Metro Mining says latest technical data also extends the mine life from 21.5 to 27 years. Earlier the company announced a Total Direct Shipping Ore Reserve – Measured, Indicated and Inferred – of 56.3 million tonnes with a significantly improved resource quality. Metro Mining CEO Simon Finnis says today’s announcements are “fantastic news for Far North...
Metro Mining is focussed on the Bauxite Hills Project which is located in the world renowned bauxite province of Cape York, in Queensland, Australia. At the project pre-development and approvals have commenced, with a Pre-Feasibility Study completed. Production is on schedule for Q3 2016. The company is well-funded with A$4.6 Million in cash at the end of March 2015. The company has been granted trading halt by the ASX on June 1 morning, with the reason 'pending a resource and reserve upgrade'. The halt will last until the opening of trade on Wednesday 3rd June 2015, or earlier if an announcement is made to the market.
China still favored Malaysian bauxite in April owing to its prevailing price appeal, Shanghai Metals Market understood. Malaysian bauxite was $ 10-11 per tonne cheaper than Australian and Indian ore at $ 46.66 per tonne, allowing its imports to grow 275,700 tonnes from March and 29.11% from a year ago. However, imports from Australia and India fell 12.26% and 14.55%, respectively, on a monthly basis. China’s bauxite imports totaled 4.72 million tonnes in April, up 275,700 mt on the month and 29.11% on the year, customs data showed.
Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG), a bauxite miner in Guinea is planning an expansion worth $1 billion to meet the growing demands and increase its production to 23.5 million tons per year by 2018, announced the director general of the firm on Friday. Halco Mining consortium, controlled by Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Dadco Investments, is the majority stake holder in CBG with 51 percent ownership. According to the contract signed by CBG with Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment fund and Dubal in 2013, the company will be supplying a total of 10 million tons of bauxite with the first 5 million due to be delivered in 2017. The high demand has encouraged the company to take up other supply deals as well invoking a need to expand their operations so that they can produce enough bauxite...
Expectations are high in Junction, St Elizabeth, as stakeholders are of the view that the impending reopening of the Alumina Partners of Jamaica (ALPART) bauxite processing plant, and new opportunities in the agriculture and business process outsourcing (BPO) sectors should churn out numerous jobs for young people in the community. The three areas were cited as potential sources of employment by Richard Parchment, member of parliament for South East St Elizabeth, while speaking to the issue of youth unemployment at last Thursday's Job Creation, Investment and Growth Forum in Junction, put on by The Gleaner Company. "In terms of youth unemployment, it is a situation that we have happening in our area. The closure of ALPART took 1,200 people out of the workforce," said Parchment, making...
Australian Bauxite Limited has started its first bauxite mine in Tasmania and holds the core of the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. ABx's 37 bauxite tenements in Queensland, New South Wales & Tasmania exceed 5,000 km2 and were selected for good quality bauxite, good infrastructure as they are well connected to export ports and as they are free of socio-environmental constraints. All tenements are 100% owned, unencumbered & free of third-party royalties. ABx's discovery rate is increasing as knowledge, technology & expertise grows. The Company's bauxite is high quality gibbsite tri-hydrate (THA) bauxite & can be processed into alumina at low temperature - the type in short supply globally. Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) has received high grade results from drill hole samples into...
Ending years of uncertainty, the Odisha government has recommended to the Centre for allotment of two bauxite deposits, Kutrumali and Sijimali in south Odisha, to engineering & construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T). L&T held the prospecting licence (PL) for these deposits for last two decades. But the state was unwilling to recommend its case for grant of mining lease (ML) as the company did not have any end use plant in the state. "The state government has recommended L&T's case to the Union mines ministry for award of ML over the two bauxite deposits. Since L&T holds a PL, it is eligible to get the ML under the amended Mines and Minerals - (Development & Regulation) Act, 2015," said an official with direct knowledge of the matter. R K Sharma, principal secretary (steel & mines),...
The Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited has targeted to plant 50,000 pine trees this year as part of the rehabilitation works after the completion of the Nawailevu Bauxite Mining site in Bua. Managing Director, Sireli Dagaga said they only have 5,000 pine trees to cover the mine area before they move outside the mine area. Dagaga says pine trees are the only tree species that can survive on these areas due to the weather condition and that is why there were some delays in the rehabilitation works. Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited was given a 20 year land lease on this piece of land which belongs to the Mataqali Naicobo of Nawailevu in Bua. Meanwhile, mining has already started on a 30 hectare of land that belongs to the Mataqali Naita of Lekutu and is also on a 20 year land lease. 75 permanent...
A Concern Rennell landowner has called on Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to remove Members of Parliament and senior government officers who have given the nod to PT Mega Bingtang Borneo Ltd to export the stockpile of bauxite out of country. The landowner who declined to have his identity revealed described Cabinet’s decision as daylight robbery. Last week Cabinet approved a limited shipment stockpiled bauxite from the Rennell mine, operated by PT Mega Bingtang Borneo Company to be exported. But the man claiming to be speaking on behalf of the landowners said, the decision made by the government was not right. “It’s not right because gov’t had already terminated their licence to operate on Rennell island; surprisingly government again gave them an order to export. “This is a total breach...
Beginning next month, eight mineral-rich states will start the e-auction of 200 mines with iron ore, limestone and bauxite deposits. The states have been empowered by the centre to auction mines with these three mineral resources. These 200 mines are mainly concentrated in Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Gujarat and Odisha. In the second round, mines with seven other minerals will be put up for e-auctions. The ministry of mines on Monday notified the rules for the e-auctions, the proceeds of which will accrue to the respective states. The e-auctions have been made mandatory to award unified prospecting and mining leases for bauxite, limestone and iron ore. The centre has stipulated that only companies or individuals with networth of INR 25 crore and above...
