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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A senior official in the Odisha government said there is no timeline for granting mining leases to two crucial mines of Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T), in what suggests Sesa Sterlite Ltd may have to wait longer before it gets bauxite from the construction company under a memorandum of understanding....
IBAAS-CHALIECO symposium on ’Present Status and Future Prospects of Bauxite- Alumina-Aluminium Industry of the World, with Special Reference to China’ is inaugurated by Mr. He Zhihni, President CHALIECO on 28th November in Nanning. He talked about the spectacular growth of aluminium industry in...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd's (VAL) $1-billion alumina refinery project at Lanjigarh will now have access to bauxite with the Orissa government getting favourable legal opinion on VAL’s sale-purchase agreement with Larsen and Toubro (L&T). The refinery currently has a capacity of 1 million tonnes (mt)....
Vedanta Resources Plc Chairman, Anil Agarwal, accompanied with L&T chief A M Naik, today met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to press for early disposal of L&T’s application for grant of mining lease for Sijumali and Kutrumali bauxite mines as both the companies have entered into a pact to operate...
First Bauxite Corporation announces that the Company is proceeding with a non-brokered private placement to Resource Capital Fund V LP for 40,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.125 per common share to raise total proceeds of $5,000,000. The Company anticipates that the Private Placement will...
In a move that marks a fresh setback for Queensland's mining sector, Rio Tinto has told contractors in the state that it has put its $1.4 billion South of Embley bauxite mine on hold for as long as 18 months, according to The Australian Financial Review. The mine and port project had been approved...
Cape Alumina says it is trying to shore up its other mining interests in Queensland after the State Government scuttled its billion-dollar bauxite project on Cape York in the far north. A mining ban over the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve has forced the company to suspend all operations at Pisolite...
An executive of one of Jamaica’s major bauxite and alumina companies, Jamalco, says the industry is undergoing its longest crisis in recent memory with not much signs of an immediate reverse. Acting manager of Jamalco Leo Lambert says the crisis is now entering its sixth year. He says the situation...
China imported 6.97 million tonnes of bauxite in October, retreating from a record high in the previous month, according to the customs data. The October imports were down 8.1% from September, when it hit 7.59 million tonnes and more than three times the volumes for the same month last year. “While...
Federal Coalition MP Warren Entsch has hit out at the Queensland Government for jeopardising a major mining project on Cape York in the state's far north. Mr Entsch, the Member for Leichhardt, says the Queensland Government has made an "appalling decision" by banning mining on the Steve Irwin...
Vedanta’s bid to secure alternate bauxite supply for its Lanjigarh refinery through a joint venture with L & T has received shot in the arm with several legal luminaries ruling out any legal hurdle in realisation of the proposal. Vedanta had entered into JV with L&T, which held prospecting licence...
Bosnian diversified company Boksit has signed a 31 million marka ($21.3 million/15.8 million euro) deal with local aluminum producer Alumina for the delivery of bauxite next year, local media said on Friday. Boksit will also intensify its activities to open new ore deposits as a basis to implement...
The Queensland Government has announced the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve and the Wenlock River in Cape York will be protected from open-cut and strip mining. The area is the first to be named a "strategic environmental area" under the Regional Planning Interests Bill to go before Parliament today....
Rio Tinto Alcan invites Weipa residents to its final community forum for the year, and to join in celebrating 50 years of operating and 500 million tonnes of bauxite shipped. Rio Tinto Alcan Weipa general manager, Operations, Gareth Manderson said this is the third year these mine tours have been...
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has extended the one-year temporary working permit (TWP) of aluminium major Nalco for three months for operating the central and north block of Panchpatmali mines at Damanjodi in Koraput district. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests...
South Goa collector N D Agrawal has issued an order with regards to regulating the movement of bauxite laden trucks from Shakti Bauxite mine at Naquerim, Betul, to the MPT harbour in Vasco. The order mandates that "one truck shall be allowed to come out from the mine in two minutes, in other words,...
Bauxite exports from Brazil reported a 10% increase in October, after China and Canada increased purchases. Shipped volumes totalled 1.06 million tonnes in the month, compared with 966,837 tonnes in October last year. The figure also represents a 77.4% increase from September, when 597,550 tonnes...
The share price of junior Queensland Bauxite climbed by more than 57% on Tuesday on news of a bauxite discovery at the South Johnstone project, in Queensland. ASX-listed Queensland Bauxite said that extensive drilling and testing within the exploration permit had shown that at least half of the 61...
