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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UC RUSAL, a leading global aluminium producer, announces that it has completed a transaction with JSC “Fund for support of investment projects in the Republic of Komi” to obtain the remaining 20% stake in OJSC Boksit Timana (‘Timan’). Following the completion of this transaction, RUSAL now owns 100% of the mine. The transaction was carried out as part of RUSAL’s asset consolidation programme, which is aimed at securing safe supplies of raw materials to the Company’s aluminium plants. ‘Currently, RUSAL is implementing a strategy to become self-sufficient in raw materials. Timan is a strategically important RUSAL asset in Russia, that makes 30% of the country’s bauxite deposits. Moreover, Timan bauxite is of high quality and can be mined at low cost in an open pit. This deal has been...
Starting January, institutions like the National Geologic Service (SGN), the Higher Education Ministry and other universities from the US and Spain will be coming together to look for ‘rare earth’ ores in Sierra de Bahoruco in southwestern Pedernales province, as announced on Friday. Bauxite, which is essentially the primary source for aluminium may also be rich in rare earth since they accumulate over carbonate rocks. Thus the deposits in this region has piqued the interest of many local and international mineral enthusiasts as these bauxite reserves may also hold rare minerals like uranium. The exploration of rare earth in the Sierra de Bahoruco’s bauxite may take four years of exploration researchers say. The prospect of finding rare earth in the bauxite reserves can be a great boon...
Russian metal and mining major Basic Eelement has evinced interest in forging partnership for developing bauxite-related sector in India. Chairman of the supervisory board of Basic Element, Oleg Deripaska, expressed company's interest at a meeting with Steel and Mines Minister Narendra Singh Tomar yesterday, an official statement said today. The company intends to explore partnership potential in developing bauxite related sector in India, the release said. "Deripaska principally expressed interest in associating with Indian aluminium industry by developing high-end and sophisticated downstream facilities," it said. Basic Element is the leading player in the field of metal, mining, hydropower and nuclear energy in Russia. "Aluminium is the metal of future, and we are keen to help Indian...
On Thursday, transportation of bauxite ore from the Naqueri plateau was disrupted as other ore transporters form Quepem, Salcete and Mormugao complained that there was a preferential treatment given to the local Fatorpa-Naqueri belt transporters, depriving the transporters from outside. The transporters from these three talukas insisted that they have seen distinct biasedness towards the local truck-owners as opposed to the outside owners when it came to transporting ores. They even said that the payment differed between the two and that the local people received better payments which should not be the case in democratic set up. Ulhas Desai, a truck owner from Cuncolim said that the truck selection should be on a rotational basis instead of other external factors like the local status....
Queensland Bauxite has provided an update, and said as previously advised, the company is preparing a resource upgrade report to an Indicated Mineral Resource status under JORC 2012 which will give the basis to start project development at the South Johnstone Bauxite project. The resource report has been reviewed by a bauxite specialist Independent Consultancy group, and a number of modifications were recommended as a result of the review. These are being made and the company expects to complete these changes over the weekend. Concurrent with that review and as a result of the increased confidence level due to the new information and data to hand, the Company is also preparing an Exploration Target upgrade for the South Johnstone Bauxite Project which will also be released with the...
Behind the rusting security gate at a secluded mine entrance, two flagpoles stand side by side. One flies the black star of Ghana while the other, which once carried the Canadian Maple Leaf, now displays China’s red ensign. Yet half a million Canadian foreign aid dollars, earmarked for communities affected by Canadian mines, were sent here for three years. It was part of an experiment in overseas aid, where the Canadian government partnered with a mining company to develop the local economy. The money went to teacher training, vocational classes and small agricultural projects. But three years on, training has ceased, half-finished buildings sit shuttered and the development plan has stalled due to a lack of new funding. The Canadian mine was sold in early 2010 before the project even...
As recommended by the Environmental Impact Assessment report, the Nawailevu Bauxite Mining site in Vanua Levu is going through rehabilitation works that is being carried out by the Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited. The Lands Minister, Mere Vuniwaqa has confirmed this in the parliament on Monday after she was questioned by the opposition on the status of the mining site. Vuniwaqa explained that the reason for conducting the EIA report is to see the productivity capacity of the soil and whether it can grow pines now as it did before bauxite mining took place. The site is already being used to grow legumes, watermelons and vegetables, she says. She also clarifies on the reason why large volume of soil is being carried out from the mining site. The soil in the area of the first mine was very...
Work on a bauxite mine in Tasmania's northern midlands is expected to start next month. The Bald Hill bauxite project, near Campbell Town, has been approved by the Northern Midlands Council. It will employ 45 people and is expected to extract more than 1 million tonnes of bauxite over five years. Australian Bauxite's Ian Levy said shipments were expected to being early next year. "We're hoping in January that we can do some trial test work to make sure that our design is optimum," he said. "During January we will start earthmoving, during February we'll start shipments of the product down to the port and hopefully we'll get a ship away either in late February or in early March." The company also plans to mine bauxite, which is used in the production of aluminium, at Conara and in the...
Queensland Bauxite has received the final results from drilling at its South Johnstone Bauxite Project in Queensland and has incorporated the results into an upgrade of its Resources to an Indicated level. This will allow the company to meet all the requirements of JORC 2012, which underpins the Scoping Study. QBL said the reports are now being reviewed by an independent mineral consultancy group used to provide specialist advice for developing and finalising the Resource. The company also added that once the review and sign off has concluded the announcement for the Resource Upgrade can be sent again to the ASX.
The First Bauxite Corporation has completed the strategic review of two of its projects, the Bankable Feasibility Study Update (BFSU Project) which was filed on 21 November 2011 and the planned pre-feasibility study (PFS Project) which was first introduced on 14th Feb, 2013. The first project was to product sintered bauxite in Guyana for the refractory market, the second was for the ceramic proppant market. In case of the BFSU project, a thorough analysis was conducted regarding the energy, market, technology, and resource risks. At the end of the review, the company believed that the risks have had a significant impact on the inability to secure the required level of finance needed for construction commissioning and operation of the BFSU project. The review of the planned PFS project...
An amendment has been proposed by the Union Ministry of Mines which will allow applicants who are applying for a mining license renewal can move their plea to the Central Government if the State Government fails to respond on the matter within 60 days. The NDA government is trying to pass the Bill in the winter session of Parliament as it will ease the bottleneck that is seen in mining lease renewals. The purpose of this Bill is to speed up the mining operations as the sector is suffering heavily for the past few years in the country. Many of the country’s active mines had not received lease renewals and were continuing operations on deemed renewals. The “deemed” renewals were permitted under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act, 1957, and Mineral Concession Rules,...
The Indonesian constitutional court rejected the challenge raised by the mining companies regarding the country’s ban on raw materials export which was imposed in January. The ban on mineral ores imposed on 12th January was to channel investments in the direction of mineral processing in the country to develop finished goods. However the ban created a stir in the global mineral market and the Indonesian Association of Mineral Entrepreneurs and companies that have mining licenses had filed a request in January to review the laws that formed the foundation of the ban. The chief justice, Hamdan Zoelva however rejected the plea saying that the ruling is final. The newly appointed President Joko Widodo also reaffirmed his consent to the ban last month. The director general of minerals and coal...
Anglo-African Mineral, attempting to continue work defying the raging Ebola outbreak, has signed a contract with Toumyne, a drilling contractor in Guinea in October so that they can take up the Auger drilling campaign on the Momo, Elevation and Samaya plateau, an area which falls under the company’s 100% owned FAR bauxite project license area in Guinea. Approximately 100 drillholes with a 300x300m grid are going to be drilled on the Elevation and Samaya plateau as per plan which will start off on 12 November and continue till the end of the year. On the Momo Plateau the grid is likely to be roughly 600x600m. The drillings will allow a better understanding of the bauxite potential so that the existing Mineral Resource statements for the property can be upgraded. This will also help to...
Breaking their silence over stiff opposition to bauxite mining, several technical and mining experts and investors for the first time met in the city recently to justify exploration of bauxite ore in parts of Eastern Ghats with eco-friendly technologies. Their presence in large number, including the flying visit of Vedanta Resources Plc CEO Tom Albanese, one of the highest paid corporate honchos, showed their seriousness to ensure raw material security for Anrak Aluminium Ltd’s refinery at Makavarapalem in Visakhapatnam and Vedanta’s alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha. In no uncertain terms, they say there is potential for investment up to Rs.1 lakh crore with employment to 30,000 directly and three lakh indirectly and contribution to the exchequer and foreign exchange earnings to...
Aziana Limited has been granted an ASX trading halt in relation to a proposed asset disposal. The company has bauxite, copper and graphite mineral projects in Madagascar as well as working interests in oil and gas exploration and production leases in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana. In the September quarter, it received partial sales proceeds of US$285,000 from the sale of minor gold licences. A further US$562,500 is due to be received in the next six months with the remaining balance of US$427,500 due upon transfer of title. It also noted an increased interest in Madagascar minerals projects that could result in an acceptable joint venture or sale of minerals projects in the future. The halt will last until the earlier of the announcement being made or the commencement of trade on...
Tom Albanese from Vedanta Resources gave his key-note address at IBAAS, the International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society, speaking about how India is lagging behind in the exploitation of bauxite reserves available in the country. There is plenty of good quality bauxite ore in the Andhra Pradesh and Orissa regions that are not being properly utilized due to some negative propaganda and misplaced concerns about ecological issues. Technologies in India have evolved that allow sustainable exploitation of the reserves so that the industry can develop in an eco-friendly way. However, the fixed, inaccurate notions continue to disrupt bauxite mining in the country, say Tom. These restrictions in the raw material are deterring investors from investing in the aluminium industry thereby...
Workers at the Chinese-owned BOSAI Minerals Limited bauxite plant at Linden on Tuesday continued to down tools and stayed off the job to press demands for higher salaries, according to well-placed sources. Preliminary information reaching Caribbean News Desk is that the company is offering a six percent hike in salaries, but the workers are demanding around seven to eight percent. There are also other grievances that the workers have bundled with their pay demand in the hope of having them addressed. Last year, workers were awarded a seven percent increase in salaries. Efforts to contact officials of the workers trade union, the National Association of Agricultural and Commercial Employees and BOSAI Minerals were not immediately successful. The strike began on Monday and was expected to...
Australian Bauxite will undertake a material capital raising and its shares have been voluntarily suspended from trading pending an announcement and details. The voluntary suspension continue until the earlier of the release of the announcement until Wednesday 26 November 2014. The company is progressing its Bald Hill project into production in Tasmania. It signed a binding term sheet for 50% of future offtake produced from the project with Noble Group to provide $6 million project finance supported by a $2 million stand by facility.
