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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Anglo-African Minerals plc, the GXG quoted mineral exploration company focused on West Africa, is pleased to deliver an update to its shareholders regarding the results from the recent drilling campaign on the FAR bauxite licence in the Kindia Prefecture, Guinea. In May 2014 the Company engaged Toumnyne Drilling contractors in Guinea to undertake a drilling campaign on a 600 by 600 meter grid to a depth of 20 meters which focused on the Samaya and Elevation 955 plateau located on the FAR licence in the Kindia prefecture. The initial results have highlighted that both Samaya and Elevation 955 have highly perspective targets, indicating potential grades between 42% and 49% alumina content. The intention is to concentrate on the development of the Samaya plateau in the first instance, with a...
The government today gave nod to increasing royalty rates on minerals including iron ore and bauxite, a long-awaited move that will significantly swell the annual revenue of states. "Cabinet in-principle approved revision of mineral royalty. There are 55 such items but this excludes coal, lignite and sand for stowing," Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after the Cabinet meeting. "We are satisfied that revision has been done... It has not been revised for a long time," he said, without disclosing the impact of the move in financial terms. As per some estimates, annual revenue collection of mineral-bearing states could swell over 40 per cent to around Rs 15,000 crore. Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Goa are among the 11 mineral-rich states. The Cabinet...
Canyon Resources Ltd plans to produce bauxite in the Birsok project which involves two permits for a surface area that spans 1,460 km2 in Cameroon. The last set of samples collected during the reconnaissance drilling on Baoua, a 700 by 350 metre plateau yielded “the best results” of the drilling programme carried out on 19 plateaus in 4 prospecting zones. Boua revealed deposits “with 44% aluminium oxide (Al203) and 8.9% silicium dioxide (Si02) with mineralisation at a depth of 6 metres on average,” announced Canyon Resources. According to Phillip Gallagher, Managing Director of Canyon Resources, the high levels of aluminium oxide and low amounts of silicium dioxide show the company’s potential for finding DSO (Direct Shipping Ore) bauxite. These deposits have characteristics similar to...
China Hongqiao Group Ltd , the country's second-largest aluminium producer, has secured sufficient bauxite to replace supplies from Indonesia, which imposed a ban on exporting unprocessed mineral in January. China in January imported 6.1 million tonnes of bauxite from Indonesia, which halted ore exports from mid-January, in a move to force miners to build processing plants and smelters within the Southeast Asian nation. The company had signed term contracts with miners in Australia and India to supply more than 10 million tonnes of bauxite per year for three to five years, starting 2014, China Hongqiao Chief Executive Officer Zhang Bo said. "We have found (bauxite) to replace the shortfall from Indonesia," Zhang told reporters in a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday after the company...
Queensland Bauxite could have a Scoping Study completed for the South Johnstone Bauxite project in north Queensland within 6 - 8 weeks. The study would likely provide baseline capital costs of mining the bauxite as well as the operating costs. The project has an initial inferred resource of 30 million tonnes of bauxite with a much larger Exploration Target of circa 300 million tonnes. The Resource estimate forms the basis of the Scoping Study by an independent consultant. The study would detail, among other variables an estimate of transport costs from South Johnstone to the deepwater Port of Mourilyan and port and shipping costs and suitability. Notably, infrastructure options would include the availability of services and resources, power and water supply and alternatives for site...
Research and Marke has announced the addition of the "Bauxite and Alumina Market Review" report to their offering. The report presents a thorough study of bauxite and alumina, covering both global and regional markets and aims to give a proper picture of the market, as well as its trends, perspectives and opportunities. Comprehensive data showing bauxite and alumina production, consumption, trade statistics and prices are provided (both nationwide and worldwide). Each country's market overview covers the following: bauxite and alumina production in the country, major producers, bauxite and alumina consumption in the country market, bauxite and alumina trade in the country, bauxite and alumina prices. The report offers a 5-year outlook on the reviewed market, including bauxite and alumina...
Minerals output rose in the first half of 2014 but revenues declined due to lower prices, Chamber of Mines data have shown. Ghana’s export revenues from gold, bauxite, diamond and manganese in the period was US$2.143 billion, down from US$2.477 billion in the first half of 2013. Bauxite revenue increased significantly, by 78 percent, on account of the substantial rise in shipments of the ore which went up by 108.4 percent. Shipments rose from 292,778 tonnes to 610,074 tonnes in the period. Alfred Baku, Executive Vice President of Gold Fields’ West Africa Operations, has said mining investments are under threat as companies are cancelling new projects and closing mines due to pressure from price-dips, cost increases and higher taxes. “Equity investors have become frustrated as miners have...
As the opposition against bauxite mining is taking quick pace around the world, people in Jamaica are also being vocal against bauxite mining. Residents of the Cockpit Country in Jamaica have expressed opposition to any plans for bauxite mining in the area, according to reports from the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET). JET said that following a series of public meetings organised by the University of the West Indies in 2013 to gather input into the decision to declare a boundary for Cockpit Country, residents remain unsure of what will be the official boundary for the proposed protected area and if mining will be prohibited within that boundary. “As the residents await answers from the government on these pressing issues, they voiced their overwhelming opposition to plans for bauxite...
Bauxite developer Cape Alumina has reported a 19.85-million-tonne direct shipping ore (DSO) inferred resource at its Bauxite Hills project, in Queensland. The inferred DSO resource was in addition to the previously announced beneficiated bauxite inferred resource of 15.1-million tonnes, and an in-situ resource of 22.1-million tonnes. Cape Alumina said on Monday that an internal review of the Bauxite Hills operation had indicated that a DSO product could be produced and shipped at a low capital and operating costs, and had the potential to increase the economic viability of the project. “The internal review has given management sufficient confidence to push ahead with the preliminary stages of environmental approvals and to complete additional technical studies to firm up the existence of...
Indonesia has no plans to wind back a seven-month old ban on exports of unprocessed nickel ore and bauxite that has led to billions of dollars in planned investments in smelters, top government officials said. Indonesia - previously the world's top exporter of nickel ore and a major bauxite producer - effectively halted all but processed metal shipments in January in an effort to force miners to build smelters, winning the country bigger returns from exports of its mineral resources. Last month the government allowed a handful of firms producing partially processed minerals such as copper concentrate, including Freeport McMoRan Inc, to resume exports. However, Indonesia's chief economic minister Chairul Tanjung said the same rationale does not apply to unprocessed exports of nickel ore...
An Australian bauxite project could be one of the next major spending items announced by Rio Tinto, with chief executive Sam Walsh confirming he has fast-tracked studies into the South of Embley project in Queensland. Located close to Weipa on the Gulf of Carpentaria, South of Embley would effectively be an expansion of the existing bauxite mines in the region, all of which are located on the north or east sides of the Embley river. Improving conditions in aluminium markets – for which bauxite is the prime feedstock - have convinced many analysts that South of Embley’s development could be imminent, and Mr Walsh confirmed he had decided to ‘‘expedite’’ studies on it. ‘‘The investment committee has approved the study fund for that project to accelerate that project by 12 months,’’ he said...
With chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu making it clear that the state government is keen on permitting bauxite mining in the Visakhapatnam agency area, the opposition for the same is regaining momentum. While the AP government has already launched an exercise to review the stand on the issue, organisations and individuals including tribals who have been opposing the project, are up in arms against the approval. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Andhra Pradesh Mineral Development Corporation (APMDC) during 2005-07 has been kept under abeyance by the UPA-II government in August 2010 following strong objections raised by the then Araku MP V Kishore Chandra Deo and others against mining in the Scheduled Areas in contravention of the Constitution. After he became Union...
China has witnessed a 39.8% decline in June’s imports from a year ago, down to 19.5 million tonnes. The fall is attributed to last year’s high base following large stockpiling and the preference to consume on-hand stocks. Except for one shipment of Indonesian ore in May, no arrivals of Indonesian goods have been reported since this April after the country implemented its export ban on unprocessed ore early this year. Shipments of bauxite increased from outside Indonesia by 37.9% from May to 2.93 million tonnes in June. Imports grew in June from Ghana, Brazil and Malaysia by 176.6%, 187.6% and 92.3% respectively, all on a yearly basis. ASX-listed Bauxite Companies Some companies that could be of interest to investors include: Bauxite Resources holds a portfolio of bauxite projects...
Anglo-African Minerals is encouraged by initial results from the sample analysis for its Toubal bauxite project in Guinea. The company engaged ALS Minerals in Ireland to undertake the analysis of 10,627 samples from the Toubal project in April. Initial interim results of the chemical analysis undertaken by ALS Minerals show that Toubal has the potential to produce high grade bauxite with an alumina content of higher that 40% and a low silica content. Chief executive James Lumley said: "The initial results from ALS Minerals are very encouraging and have highlighted that the Toubal project has the potential to become a world class bauxite deposit.We look forward to updating shareholders once we receive the final analysis results"
Inbound shipments of bauxite to China grew 37.91% from May to 2.93 million tonnes in June due to increased imports outside Indonesia, Shanghai Metals Market learned. Except one shipment of Indonesian ore from bonded area in May, no arrivals of Indonesian goods have been reported since this April after the country implemented its export ban on unprocessed ore early this year. Imports increased from other countries during the first six months of the year, though. Imports throughout June from Ghana, Brazil and Malaysia grew by 176.67%, 187.6% and 92.35% respectively, all on a yearly basis. However, China still witnessed a 39.82% decline in June’s imports from a year ago, down to 19.52 million tonnes. SMM attributes the slump to last year’s high base following large stockpiling and the...
The Andhra Pradesh Government has launched an exercise to review a stand on the contentious bauxite mining issue. The MoU signed by the AP Mineral Development Corporation during 2005-07 have been put under abeyance by the UPA-II Government in August 2010 following strong objections raised by then Araku MP V. Kishore Chandra Deo and others against mining in Scheduled Areas in contravention of Constitution. After his induction as Union Minister for Tribal Affairs a year later, he had asked the State to scrap the agreements. Post-bifurcation, on assuming charge as Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu is treading cautiously to undertake bauxite mining by taking the stakeholders into consideration. When contacted, Minister for Panchayat Raj Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu told The Hindu on Monday that...
The Panchpatmalli bauxite mines of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) has bagged the Sita Ram Rungta Social Awareness Award for 2013-14 instituted by the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI). Ansuman Das, chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of Nalco received the trophy from Narendra Singh Tomar, Union minister of steel, mines and labour & employment during the annual general meeting of FIMI in New Delhi today in the presence of Anup K Pujari, Union mines secretary. Soma Mondal, director (commercial) and V Balasubramanyam, executive director (production), Nalco were also present on this occasion.
An indigenous-owned mining company has been given the go-ahead to begin bauxite exploration in northeastern Arnhem Land. The Gulkula Mining Company, a subsidiary of the Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation, received the nod from the Northern Land Council on Saturday to begin exploring at the Dhupuma Plateau, about 30km southeast of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory. Rio Tinto also announced at the Garma indigenous festival on Saturday that it would invest $2.4 million in a new mining training centre. "We're not going to be Rio Tinto, we're certainly not going to be Alcan," Gumatj Corporation chief executive Klaus Helms said. "Our core business will be training indigenous people from the beginning to the end of mining so future operations will be understood by Yolngu people, not just lawyers or...
