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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With hopes of mining bauxite in Niymagiri hills virtually dashed, Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) is now eyeing laterite deposits in Rayagada district for raw material for its Lanjigarh refinery. The company sought permission for extracting laterite deposits at Sagabari, Panabara and Arotokoni...
The traditional classroom setting doesn't fit all students' needs. That is why the Bauxite School District has started a charter school with an individualized learning approach. When school starts back on August 19, Bauxite will have an elementary school, middle school and two high schools. Miner...
As the ninth successive gram sabha rejected mining in Niyamgiri hills on Thursday, the Congress chose to rub salt onto the wounds of an embarrassed Naveen Patnaik Government with Union Minister Srikant Jena demanding an apology from the Chief Minister. With all the villages going against mining,...
With more than half the gram sabhas in Orissa's Rayagada and Kalahandi districts opposing bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is working on a two-pronged back-up plan to source the key raw material. The company is understood to have identified 25-26 small closed mines owned...
Congress leaders on Thursday congratulated the Dangaria Kandha tribes of Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Odisha for their united stand against the proposed bauxite mining plan atop Niyamgiri Hills for Vedanta. The praise on the particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) was showered at the...
Amid the overwhelming opposition to the Niyamgiri bauxite mining project at the recently held gram sabhas, Vedanta Aluminium is in a quandary on a sustainable alternative for its one-million-tonne Lanjigarh refinery. Though the company has applied for prospecting licences and mining leases at 26...
The tribals of Ijurupa village in Kalahandi district today unanimously voted against the plan to mine bauxite on top of Niyamgiri hills, making it the eighth palli sabha in a row to reject the mining plan. The view of the tribals was along the expected lines after seven gram sabhas had voted...
Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred. Failure to source bauxite from within the state might force the London-listed company to...
Thirty employers of Noranda Bauxite Partners Jamaica in Discovery Bay, St Ann, ditched their duties for two days recently to concentrate on helping less fortunate persons at the Widow's Mite orphanage in Murray Mountain in the parish. The team was accompanied by general manager of United Way of...
Bauxite Resources Limited Chairman Barry Carbon AM announces that he will retire from all positions with the Company effective 9 August 2013. The Board and Management of Bauxite Resources wish to express its sincere thanks to Mr Carbon for his significant contribution to the Company during his...
Ghana could lose over $350 billion of revenue from the bauxite industry if measures are not put in place to establish a refinery and integrate the various players in the precious minerals’ value chain. This is according to the Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO). A conservative estimate of Ghana’s...
The fifth gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining project, held at Talberi village in Kalahandi district on Thursday, followed the pattern of the previous four gram sabhas and rejected the proposal outright, asserting socio-cultural and religious rights over the Niyamagiri hill. Out of 15 eligible...
The villagers of Kunakeda, a Dongaria Kondh village in Kalahandi district, today unanimously rejected the proposal for mining in Niyamgiri, claiming community and religious rights over the entire hill range. It was the fourth out of 12 palli sabhas to be held in Rayagada (7 villages) and Kalahandi...
BJP vice president Jual Oram Tuesday urged the government to hold gram sabhas (meetings) in all villages in Odisha's Niyamgiri hills to take a decision on the bauxite mining project in the region. The former MP said he met Union Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo in New Delhi Monday and...
Continuing the opposition to bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, the third palli (gram) sabha held here in Trilochanpur panchayat adopted a unanimous resolution on Tuesday not to allow digging of bauxite ore from their area. Amid heavy bandobust, the gram sabha, home to 22 OBC families, repeated...
China imported 6.08 million mt of bauxite in June. YTD imports through June totaled 32.71 million mt, up 29.75% YoY, according to China Customs. China’s imports of Indonesian bauxite rose 2.95% YoY to 21.395 million mt in H1, 2013. Imports of Australian bauxite jumped 56.99% YoY to 6.68 million mt,...
Days after restarting its refinery in Odisha's Kalahandi district following a seven-month shutdown due to a bauxite scarcity, Vedanta Aluminium Limited is optimistic about getting the ore from the state itself. "If aluminium industries cannot survive in Odisha, having huge bauxite reserves, then...
More shipments of bauxite are expected for China if the mining is not affected by the weather. Aurum Exploration Limited mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said there were only four shipments so far this year. The latest shipment was last week. Vanuaca said the landowners have received the benefits...
