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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The Indonesian ban and China’s ramped up production has put the Malaysian bauxite industry in the limelight and is being termed as “game changer” in the aluminium industry in general but more specifically in China. It is expected that China would need around 130 million tonnes of bauxite next year and 36.8 million of that amount needs to be imported to feed the voracious aluminium industry in China. The first nine months of the year has already seen a jump in Malaysian bauxite imports in China by 12 times, from 105,000 tonnes in 2013 to 1.27 million tonnes in 2014 and analysts predict that number could go up to 10 million tonnes next year. In a bid to keep up with demands, Malaysia is also ramping up its mining activities. Idea Mineral Resources opened a mine few months back which is...
The Central Government aims to improve the Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation (MMDR) Act and is introducing many amendments for that purpose. The most recent plan is to allow transferability of mines by which companies will be able to sell their mines to other companies for all minerals except the atomic ones. According to this proposed law, a company will be able to sell its mines to other companies after securing permission from the concerned state government which is not allowed at present. At the moment, companies can simply transfer the lease after another company takes over. The proposed plan suggests, for the transfer to take place, the new company must meet all the conditions and liabilities that were agreed upon for the original license. Plus, a transfer fee must be...
Bauxite focussed Canyon Resources is preparing to outline details of a capital raising. The ASX has granted the company a trading halt, with its shares placed in pre-open. The company's key project is the Birsok Bauxite Project in Cameroon, with the inaugural drilling program returning high-grade, low impurity bauxite mineralisation. The halt will last until the earlier of an announcement being made to the market, or the opening of trade on Friday 21st November.
The Mines Ministry, in the Bill to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, has proposed competitive bidding mechanism for allocation of mines for all minerals . According to the draft of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) (Amendment) Bill, 2014, for bulk minerals such as iron ore, limestone, manganese, bauxite and others, there will be no requirement for a prospective licence and any gaps in the knowledge relating to such minerals will be filled by the State Government agencies. Such minerals, which will be notified at a later date, account for nearly 85 per cent of the country’s total mineral production. The Ministry has put the draft amendments in the public domain on Monday and sought comments by December 10, 2014. For non-notified minerals, a...
Bauxite Resources boasts the highest cash to market cap ratio of any ASX bauxite company. And it has resources of almost 400 million tonnes of bauxite. The company holds over $24 million, and is capitalised at $27 million. In September, BAU notched a significant increase in resource estimate quality for the Felicitas bauxite deposit in the Darling Range, Western Australia. The upgrade resulted from the drilling of an additional 992 vacuum drill holes across the deposit, and reinterpretation of the resource wireframes. There was also an increase in the total tonnage of the resource that now totals 227.9 million tonnes at 39.7% total alumina, 31.3% available alumina at low temperature (148oC), and 2% reactive silica. A total of 88% of total resource or 199.8 million tonnes now resides in...
Alufer Mining Limited has completed the initial Bankable Feasibility Study for the proposed Bel Air Project in Guinea with an estimated capacity of 10.3Mtpa. This is the first towards Alufer’s plan to develop 30Mtpa to cater to China’s growing bauxite needs. After just two years from the first drillhole, the company was able to produce the feasibility report as well and by March 2015, the project should go into construction and by January 2016 and the initial production should begin producing 4.8Mtpa initially. The next phase of Alufer’s plan involves the development of the Labe project using the cash flows from Bel Air. The Labe project has a 2.5 billion tonne JORC resource. Once the construction at both the sites is complete, the combination of these two projects is likely to provide...
CAA Resources is primarily an iron ore product company but since the iron ore market is somewhat depressed of late, the company is considering venturing into the bauxite industry. Mr. Li Yang, the chairman of the board along with the senior managers, is now investigating bauxite prospects in Pahang, Malaysia. They are researching bauxite mining, processing, transportation and other production processes. Since China, the biggest aluminium producer in the world is running out of bauxite resources thanks to the Indonesian export ban, bauxite could be a lucrative avenue to venture into. CAA is thus seeking a reliable business partner for bauxite development as well as high quality bauxite resources.
The China Customs data revealed that Chinese bauxite imports from Malaysia have gone up to 1.27 million tonnes during the first three quarters of the year. The reason for the sudden rise in Malaysian imports can be traced back to the Indonesian export ban, which is affecting the global bauxite scene, as well as the Ebola outbreak in Africa which has had significant impact on their bauxite shipment, reported a local media in Yantai, Shandong on Friday. The robust demand for the Malaysian bauxite is likely to stay for some time and has resulted in a sharp rise in number of bauxite suppliers in the country. This has also brought down the price of the bauxite which is currently at a FOB price of $35-37 per tonne for the low-grade bauxite and $46-47 per tonne for the higher-grade of the ore....
The bauxite deposits at Rennell Island is attracting a lot of attention and the newly established mining company, which is a joint venture of Mugava and Solomon Mining Limited, is the third company to show interest in this project. Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) and Bintang Borneo Mining Company Ltd are the two other Indonesian companies that are vying for this lucrative bauxite source. The Chairman of the Mugava Board of Directors, Jessy Kaipura confirmed that there is a joint venture and it includes the landowners of the demarked areas. He also said that no application for the prospecting license has yet been submitted and that they are working on the same. Mugava is a locally registered company that is said to include sixteen individual landowners while Solomon Mining...
New bauxite reserves in Guizhou Province – one of China’s bauxite-rich regions – are likely to hit 400 million tonnes in 2014, cnmn.com reported on November 9. Besides, new coal resources in the province are estimated at 150 million tonnes this year. To capitalize on abundant resources, the local government is encouraging the development of coal-electricity- aluminum integration facilities.
Another 20 year land lease has been approved to XINFA Aurum Explorations Fiji Limited for a new bauxite mining site at Votua, Lekutu in Bua. Mine Manager Basilio Vanuaca said 400,000 tonnes of bauxite is expected to be extracted from that piece of land which is 500 metres away from the current site at Nawailevu. Vanuaca said the government has also extended their bauxite mining license. Director Land Use Unit, Samuela Naicegucegu said $232,000 as premium money has been paid to the Mataqali Naita of Votua village in Lekutu, Bua. Naicegucegu said $7,000 is the land rent for a year and will be paid in the first five years subject to the review of the lease. He added the landowners will also receive royalty money after the completion of the mining project. Lands and Mineral Resources Minister...
Imerys, a world leading industrial minerals company has signed an absorption deal on Thursday, for the Greek company called S&B Industrial Minerals. The deal is supposedly one of the biggest international mergers in the history of Greek industry. The deal is said to be worth 558 million euros according to Imerys’ statement in bourse filling from Paris. After the deal comes through, S&B will be controlling 4.5% of the Imerys and the Chairman of the Greek company, Ulysses Kyriakopoulos will become a part of Imerys governing board. Imerys said the deal represented a “strategic combination for the integration of the main activities of S&B,” while Kyriakopoulos told Kathimerini on Wednesday that the absorption of S&B will not affect the Greek firm’s bauxite activity. Kyriakopoulos says that...
A local NGO reported that a Harita group mining company in West Kalimantan, Indonesia has been mining outside its allotted land. Forest Monitoring Volunteers of Borneo (RPHK) found in the their investigation that the P.T Karya Utama Tambang Jaya is using 78 hectares of land for their operations even though they have no jurisdiction on that land. The company already owns permits to mine across 8,878 hectares of land. Even though the area of violation is small, this is not an isolated event. The Department of Mines and Energy in West Kalimantan statistics suggests, 6.4 million hectares of West Kalimantan province has been allotted for the purpose of mining and extraction effective as of June 2014. "Because this island has become the production center for mining products and national energy...
The government is learnt to have finalised a blueprint to auction 31 mining leases for iron ore and bauxite mines by April 2015. It has also asked the states to give a list of fully prospected areas for auctioning them out in the subsequent phases. The first set of mining leases (MLs) will be auctioned only in areas where the estimate of mineralisation has already been established and fully prospected only by state-run exploration agencies. The Prime Minister’s Office had in September this year asked the mines ministry to expedite its decision on over 60,000 MLs pending both with the central and state governments. The list of 31 leases of bauxite and iron ore mines whose leases will be formally notified for auctions once the states assure the Centre of helping the winning bidders in...
China’s imports of Malaysian bauxite hit a record high of 566,000 tonnes in September 2014, China Customs data showed. Malaysia – accounting for 20% of China’s total imports in September – became China’s third largest supplier of bauxite, next only to Australia and India. This was driven largely by its price advantage (Malaysian ore ($ 50.94 per tonne, CIF), versus Australian bauxite ($ 60.8 per tonne, CIF), Indian bauxite ($ 59.2 per tonne, CIF). Year-to-date imports through September totaled 2.85 million tonnes, down 62.38% year-on-year, but up 14.40% month-on-month. Alumina refineries reopened or restarted idled capacity, boosting bauxite demand.
A West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) train has derailed in the vicinity of Capture land and Tawes Meadows in St Catherine a short while ago. Information is sketchy at this point but OBSERVER ONLINE can report that no one was injured. The train is reported to have been heading to May Pen, Clarendon and upon reaching a corner in the Capture land community the train line went loose resulting in the derailment. The engineer who was the only person on board escaped unhurt.
Metallica Minerals Limited (“Metallica”) is pleased to announce that the Cape York Bauxite and Heavy Mineral Sands (HMS) Joint Venture has executed a legally binding Supply Contract with Consulmet Pty. Ltd (“Consulmet”) for the Urquhart Point HMS Projecton the western coast of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. The Contract is a fixed price turnkey contract to supply and commission the HMS concentrator plant on site at Urquhart Point,3km west of Weipa, Cape York. Consulmet will now commence construction of the modularised plant in South Africa, and this will then be delivered to Weipa and assembled. The plant is expected to be commissioned late in May 2015 with HMS production commencing in June 2015. The Joint Venture is between Metallica’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Oresome Australia Pty...
Anrak Aluminium is optimistic of securing government approval to mine bauxite in three to four months, a company official said on Wednesday, possibly ending a three-year wait. "We are hopeful of getting approval in three to four months," Hariharan Mahadevan, president of projects at Anrak, told an industry conference in Singapore. The mine, located in Andhra Pradesh, will have an annual capacity to produce 1.5 million tonnes of bauxite, used to make alumina which then goes into producing aluminium. Its alumina refinery should be in place by April 2015, while the second phase will include a smelter, Mahadevan said. Amrak is a joint venture between Penna group of industries and Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority, according to the company's Facebook page.
