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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After 12 village councils completely rejected bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta is now looking beyond the area to source raw material for its Rs. 5,000 crore Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha and is hopeful of securing an alternate mine soon. "Niyamgiri was a very small deposit and...
The Quang Nam Provincial People's Committee has allowed the Vietnam Import Export and Construction Corporation (Vinaconex) and its Lao partner – the Laos Minerals Company, to build a pipe to transport bauxite from the Laos to the Chu Lai Economic Zone. According to Vinaconex, the bauxite mine in...
Union minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh today said the state government and Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) should find another place to excavate bauxite to feed the company’s refinery plant located at Lanjigarh. Minister Ramesh said this while addressing media at Congress HQs in...
Cape Alumina is set to secure funds to progress its $396 million bauxite project under a merger deal with coal junior MetroCoal. The companies have announced a scheme of arrangement merger that will create a $28m diversified resources house with the aim of developing the Pisolite Hills bauxite...
Export of bauxite ore and its concentrates (aluminum) during January to June 2013 hit 24.4 million tons, up 23.8 percent compared to the same period last year, based on data from the Directorate of Foreign Trade Ministry of Commerce. Export value of vessel freight on board (FOB) also rose 48.4...
Though all 12 village council voted against allowing Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Aluminium to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri, the Vedanta Group executive chairman remains optimistic the Orissa government will soon allot another mine for the 1-million-tonne (to be expanded to 5) refinery. There is a lot of...
Brazilian metals company Votorantim Metals has signed a protocol of intent with Seicom, Para state's industry, mining and commerce department, as part of the latter's plan to attract new businesses to its mining and metals industry. As Votorantim gets ready to start work on its Alumina Rondon...
Antam’s $490 million chemical-grade aluminum plant in Tayan, West Kalimantan, is nearly complete. The state miner expects to start operating the plant at the end of October, on track with its original target. The Jakarta-based Antam said in a statement on Wednesday that as of the end of August, the...
Traditional owners from five clans in far north Queensland have now taken control of a parcel of west Cape York land earmarked for a multi-billion-dollar bauxite project. The deeds to the land were handed over yesterday to the Ngan Aak-Kunch Aboriginal Corporation at a ceremony in Aurukun, north of...
Mining major Rio Tinto and Chinese owned Chalco have opted out of bidding for the $20 billion Aurukun bauxite deposit in Cape York, leaving Glencore and Australia Indigenous Resources in the race. The Queensland government released a shortlist of five bidders to pitch for the Aurukun deposit in...
The state geology department has identified five places in Koraput and Kalahandi districts to carry out prospecting operation for bauxite, as part of its long-term plan to boost proven bauxite reserves in the state. "For 2013-14 field season (Nov-May) we have proposed to carry out prospecting...
The former mayor of Limerick has said he has “serious concerns” about plans by Aughinish Alumina to extend the height of bauxite residue deposits to 100 feet on its lands adjacent to the Shannon Estuary. According to Fine Gael councillor Jim Long, the Russian-owned company, under terms agreed in...
Rio Tinto Alcan’s expansion plans are centred on its bauxite operations, while its focus in its alumina refining and aluminium smelting operations will remain on costs, Nigel Steward, senior vp of technology and supply chain said. ”In smelting and refining we are focused heavily on costs, and have...
The Nawailevu Bauxite mine in Vanua Levu is providing new returns for workers through the farming of vegetables and fruits at the site following extraction. Workers at the site have been planting farming produce at the site once bauxite has been extracted. While visiting the Nawailevu bauxite mine...
Glencore Xstrata Plc (GLEN) and China’s Australian Indigenous Resources Pty submitted proposals to Australia’s Queensland government to develop the Aurukun bauxite project in the northeast state. Queensland in April shortlisted a number of companies, including Rio Tinto Group, to develop the...
Emirates Global Aluminium, or EGA, which is under formation, is aiming to become an international aluminium conglomerate with interests from bauxite mining to aluminium refining and carbon production, a top official said. EAG will be an organisation which will comprise of several umbrella companies...
Customs director Fernando Fernandez on Friday said the agency inspects the bauxite shipped from the port town Cabo Rojo, after the experience with the Canadian miner Barrick Gold Corp, whose exports of doré were retained several times at Las Americans Airport on irregularities. The official, who...
RUSAL, a leading, global aluminium producer, announces an investment of almost RUR 3 bln in constructing new operational sites at SUBR (North Urals Bauxite Mine) channeling some of these funds into technical and equipment upgrade in 2013. RUSAL has already invested RUR 1.1 bln in building the...
