Ghana has stepped up efforts to attract Australian investment into its growing critical minerals sector, pitching the country as a stable and reform-driven destination for mining and value-added mineral development at the 2026 Africa Down Under (ADU) Summit in Perth. The Ghanaian delegation was led...
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...
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No one is getting too excited just yet, but there is a chance that Indonesia of all places may be about to do Australia a big favour -- more particularly, our tin, nickel and bauxite producers. Like the rest of the mining sector, all three could do with a bit of early Christmas cheer. Apart from...
KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala will visit the proposed bauxite-mining site at Kinalur panchayat in Kasargod. In a statement here on Monday, he said the previous LDF government had given sanction to Maharashtra-based Ashapura group for mining bauxite. However, the State government issued a notice...
Australian Bauxite has been granted a trading halt today, pending details of a capital raising. Australian Bauxite shares are currently in pre-open. The halt will remain in place until the opening of trade on Thursday 12th December 2013, or earlier if an announcement is made to the market.
Former premier Paul Lennon has joined the board of a Sydney-based company planning to mine bauxite near Launceston. Australian Bauxite Ltd has three exploration tenements in the North and hopes to next year open a mine and export bauxite to China for smelting into alumina and then aluminium. The...
The Mayor of an Aboriginal Shire in far north Queensland's Cape York says the closure of a bauxite mine could end a bitter dispute in the town. Cape Alumina is abandoning its Pisolite Hills project on the Western Cape after the State Government banned mining in the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve....
Rio Tinto has appointed Greg Lilleyman as the new group executive, Technology & Innovation (T&I) following the retirement of Preston Chiaro at the end of March 2014. Greg’s appointment is effective from 1 January 2014. Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh said “Under Preston’s leadership, our...
The Indonesian government has reiterated plans to ban tin, bauxite and nickel ore exports from January 2014. The extent of the bans and the specific implications are still unclear, as some exports may still be allowed if companies reveal an intention to build smelters in the country. The move is...
The ripple effect of the Supreme Court verdict in the Vedanta mining case is being felt in faraway Manipur. The Mapithel multi-purpose project, which began in Manipur in 1980 and is yet to be completed, now faces the same test as Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Odisha did — has it come up...
Resource Capital Fund V L.P. is pleased to announce that it has completed a subsequent $5,000,000 investment in First Bauxite Corporation. RCF has acquired 40,000,000 common shares of the Company pursuant to a private placement by the Company at a price of $0.125 per Share. The Shares represent an...
Bauxite developer Cape Alumina told shareholders on Friday that its entire focus would now shift to the development of the Bauxite Hills mine and port project, in Queensland, after the state government effectively canned the company’s Pisolite Hills project. In November, the state government...
Rio Tinto expects to be able to export 7-8 million tonnes of bauxite a year from Gove in Australia's Northern Territory, the company's aluminium chief said on Tuesady. Rio last week said it was suspending operations at its loss-making Gove alumina refinery but would continue mining bauxite there...
Noel Brown, academic and president of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE), said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia is just one of several countries currently recruiting Jamaican engineers and other workers from the bauxite sector for jobs abroad. Ma'aden Aluminium in Saudi Arabia - a joint venture...
The BJP has opposed the state government's attempt to consider bauxite supply from two mines in Rayagada's Kashipur block to refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) at Kalahandi's Lanjigarh. The two mines have been allotted to Larsen and Toubro (L&T). In a memorandum, submitted to the district...
Bauxite Resources Limited is pleased to announce that the area of private farmland that was used for the trial mining in 2009/10 has now been formally handed back to the owner following successful rehabilitation of the pastoral land. Following the trial shipment in March 2010 the eight hectares of...
Resource company Cape Alumina, which stopped work on a major bauxite mine on far north Queensland's Cape York, will meet Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney about the impact of new environmental restrictions proposed for the region. Cape Alumina has spent more than $20 million on its Pisolite Hills venture...
Volclay International has offloaded 4.94% stake in Ashapura Minechem to Albula Investment Fund through bulk deal on BSE and NSE. Volclay International Corporation holds 9.47% stake in Ashapura. It sold shares via two block deals - one block deal was of 37,50,285 equity shares at R45.75 apiece on...
The cooperation agreement with the University of Oslo and the three Brazilian research institutions Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Federal Rural University of the Amazon (UFRA) and Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) was signed in Belém, Brazil, on Friday. The collaboration will include...
On the second day of IBAAS-CHALIECO International Symposium on Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium in China; Russell Williams of Navasota Resources Inc. informed that they are in possession of about 700 Million to 1.5 Billion tons of high grade bauxite resources in Guinea and also discussed the ready...
