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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Queensland Bauxite looks set to trade higher after a further study of South Johnstone in Queensland indicates a bauxite field outside areas with known environmental issues. Extensive drilling and XRF testing has shown half of the 61 shallow holes to be relatively enriched in alumina and depleted in...
Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners expects to "substantially complete" dredging at its Discovery Bay port by year end. But capital spending on its US$20-million expansion project, which includes improvements in railing infrastructure used in its bauxite mining operation, slowed in the three months to...
Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma'aden) expects to start producing bauxite from a new mine in the second quarter of 2014, a company executive said on Wednesday. Ma'aden and U.S. partner Alcoa are developing a mine with the capacity to produce 4 million tonnes per year of raw material for their new...
China’s bauxite imports soared in September ahead of Indonesia’s possible export ban in 2014, Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) has learned. China imported 7.59 million mt of bauxite during September, surging 347.09% YoY. YTD imports through September totaled 53.498 million mt, also up 76.14% YoY,...
National Coal-Mineral Industries Group Vinacomin has received an import duty exemption from the Ministry of Finance on its machine spare parts for Tan Rai, Vietnam’s first bauxite plant that began official operations in September. Normally the government will consider a tax break for shipments of...
Metal Bulletin’s 3rd alumina and bauxite conference which has recently concluded in Singapore highlighted the following topics: 1. Challenges remain for Indonesia in implementing its proposed ban on exports of raw materials. Among them are dealing with the interests of local power centres who issue...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd's (VAL) hope to source bauxite from Sijimali and Kutrumali mines in south Odisha's Rayagada and Kalahandi districts has hit a legal roadblock. Engineering giant L&T had originally obtained prospecting license (PL) over the two deposits. The grant of ML was expected to come to...
The National Workers Union (NWU) says it will by next week be asking the Ministry of Labour to conduct a representational rights poll among employees at WINDALCO. The union is seeking bargaining rights for workers at the bauxite company. However, WINDALCO has reportedly rejected its efforts to...
Australia’s Bauxite Resources expects China will source a greater proportion of its bauxite requirement from Australia and West Africa over the next decade, ceo Peter Canterbury said. The company is gearing up to support growth for an obvious supply gap in the market as a result of the uncertainty...
Australian junior miner Cape Alumina expects construction at its Pisolite Hills project to be completed by mid-2015 and first bauxite production in late 2015, ceo Graeme Sherlock said on Tuesday. The Pisolite Hills project in Queensland, has a resource of about 134.6 million tonnes with the...
Siberians are ready to build furnaces and recycle the red mud remaining after the processing of bauxite. The new technology, they argue, will produce cheap iron, rare earth metals and silica foam, which enjoys popularity in Europe throughout various industries. The project was supported by the...
Fiji’s Nawailevu mine in Bua has exported 500m tonnes of bauxite with the recent shipment leaving the country last week. Mineral Resources Department director Malakai Finau who recently visited the project site for inspection and monitoring purpose says operation at the mine is progressing well and...
Bauxite Resources said its Felicitas project in Western Australia could support a 1.2 million tonne per annum alumina refinery for nearly half a century after it improved the site resource by 47.9%. Total unbeneficiated resources at the 48sq.km site stand at 218.7Mt at 30.1% available aluminium...
South Goa collector N D Agrawal on Friday revoked the suspension of transportation of bauxite ore from Nakeri-Betul to the MPT following a clarification from department of mines and geology that the Supreme Court ban on mining does not extend to bauxite mining. Agrawal on Thursday had directed the...
The mining of two mineral commodities is progressing well says the Mineral Resources Department director Mr Malakai Finau. As senior staff from the department visited project sites for inspection & monitoring purposes, Mr Finau highlighted the achievements of the Nawailevu Bauxite site in Bua....
The multi-million dollar Rare Earth Elements Pilot Plant located on the grounds of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) in Hope Gardens, St. Andrew, has been completed and is slated to be fully operational by the end of next week. This was disclosed by Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and...
The legality of bauxite mining at Nakeri-Betul has now come under the scanner of the south Goa district administration following clashes between groups of truckers engaged in the transportation of bauxite ore from the mine to the Mormugao port trust (MPT) over some transportation issues. South Goa...
Bauxite Resources Limited continues to focus primarily on the exploration and evaluation of bauxite prospectivity in BRL's extensive tenement holding in Western Australia's Darling Range, the largest bauxite and alumina producing region in the world. Highlights: - Bauxite resources of Bauxite...
