Metro Mining Limited shipped 2.1 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite in the third quarter of 2026, up 17 per cent from 1.8 million WMT in the previous quarter. However, shipments remained below the 2.25 million WMT recorded in Q3 2025. The Australian bauxite producer reported improved market pricing during the July–September quarter, with its delivered (CIF) price rising by 6.5 per cent to AUD 60.8 (USD 42.79) per WMT from AUD 57.1 (USD 40.18) per WMT in Q2. Site EBITDA increased to AUD 7 (USD 4.93) per WMT from AUD 4.4 (USD 3.10) per WMT. Mining and shipping operations faced maintenance work, equipment issues and channel erosion during the quarter. The company said its offshore floating terminal, Ikamba, underwent a one-week shutdown in July to replace four large hydraulic crane...
Ghana Bauxite Company Limited (GBC) has appointed Ecobank Ghana PLC to arrange up to USD 250 million in financing for its expansion programme, which aims to increase bauxite production and improve mining and logistics infrastructure. The parties signed the agreement in Accra on October 28, 2026. Ecobank will structure the proposed financing and coordinate participation from other banks and financial institutions. The package includes a term loan and a revolving credit facility to cover capital investment and working capital. The funds are expected to support investments in mining equipment, haulage capacity, materials-handling systems and other infrastructure at GBC’s Awaso operations in the Western North Region. Explore the production, demand and consumption forecasts of bauxite and...
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Vietnam's deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has confirmed that the bauxite project in the Central Highlands region will bear fruit in the long run, easing public worries about the economic efficiency of the project. The project has been given the green light from the Party’s Political Bureau and the National Assembly, under which a Tan Rai bauxite plant will be built in Lam Dong province, and a Nhan Co alumin plant in Dak Nong province, both in the Central Highlands. Vinacomin reported that the global economic recession has taken its heavy toll on the project, slowing down its implementation pace and affecting its economic efficiency. The payback period could last longer than initially estimated. Deputy PM Hai quoted a Ministry of Industry and Trade report, saying rising global input...
China Customs data show that China imported 6.74 million mt of bauxite in April, up 29.72% YoY. YTD imports through April hit 20.65 million mt, also up 14.62% YoY. Bauxite CIF prices in April were USD 51.21/mt, an increase of 18.74% from the same period last year. China’s imports of Indonesian bauxite in April grew 0.84% YoY and 34.91% MoM to 4.56 million mt, while imports of Australian bauxite soared 113.42% YoY and 70.05% MoM to 1.33 million mt. Imports of Indian bauxite hit 744,000 mt in April, a surge from 50,000 mt in April 2012. China’s monthly importation of Indonesian bauxite has approached levels seen before the Indonesian government began to restrict exports of raw ore including bauxite in June 2012. Imports of Australian and Indian bauxite also grew significantly. SMM believes...
The Odisha SC & ST department will instruct the district administration of Kalahandi and Rayagada soon to initiate work at the field level for conducting gram sabhas for deciding the fate of bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills. Despite the Supreme Court (SC) verdict dated April 18, the state government is yet to start the process for holding village assembly meetings, citing lack of clarity in the order. Now, after receipt of views from the law department, the SC & ST department is gearing up to hold gram sabhas in 12 villages on Niyamgiri hill slopes. Meanwhile, the Dongaria Kondhs, the inhabitants of Niyamgiri hills, have vowed not to allow bauxite mining by Vedanta. “We are determined not to allow the company to mine bauxite. We have also apprised the people in all the affected villages...
Guinea’s ambitious bauxite market is set to be marred by the pull out of foreign investment and its own political unrest. In March, president Alpha Conde pledged to triple production to 61 million metric tons by 2016-17 and account for a quarter of the world's bauxite production by 2020. But trouble in the global mining sector and the country's own political unrest could derail the country's ambitious plans. On May 19, BHP Billiton and Global Alumina Corp. sold their share of the Guinea Alumina Corp. to Dubai Aluminium and Abu-Dhabi based Mubadala. Rusal, Russian mining company has also suspended operations in the Guinea town of Friguia. Reports also suggest the company is also scrapping plans for a USD 5 billion 240,000 tons per year alumina refinery project in Dian Dian, touted to be...
Australian Environment Minister Tony Burke has approved Rio Tinto Alcan’s new South of Embley bauxite mine on Cape York, the Queensland peninsula that the Australian government intends to propose as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Announcing the approval May 15, Burke said with the 76 strict conditions he has placed on the development, he is satisfied that the bauxite mine and port project in western Cape York “can go ahead without unacceptable impacts on the environment.” “My decision comes after a rigorous environmental assessment, and the conditions I have placed on the project will ensure that the region is protected,” Burke said. “My decision has taken into account public comments, the advice of my department and independent advice from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.”...
Potash Ridge Corporation announced that it has commenced pilot scale test work for its Blawn Mountain Project. The primary objectives of the pilot scale test work are to confirm the results of historic pilot plant testing, confirm the results of current bench scale testing on a continuous basis, process optimization, and generation of concentrate and products for material characterization and downstream metallurgical testing. Process optimization is primarily focused on operating efficiencies and maximizing SOP recoveries, while still producing a bauxite-type material that can be sold to refiners for processing into alumina. The Blawn Mountain deposit was extensively evaluated during the 1970s and early 1980s. At that time, alumina was the primary product, with SOP produced as a...
BOSAI Minerals, the Chinese bauxite company operating in Linden, has rented three generator sets to resume production and provide electricity to the town, the company said in a brief update. A company spokeswoman said that the town- Mackenzie and Wismar- was likely to experience some power outages during peak consumption between 6 PM and 10 PM. “This is due to the amount of load the community use during this time which is over 6.6 megawatts,” she said. The three Caterpillar generator sets were rented from MACORP to power the plant and mines while at the same time supplying businesses and residences in the town. BOSAI hopes that the situation will return to normalcy as soon as the two damaged generator sets are repaired and reactivated. Two generator sets were damaged last week, resulting...
With its first Tasmanian mining lease well on the way to being granted, Australian Bauxite is poised to take advantage of favourable developments in the global bauxite market. Australian Bauxite’s (ABx’s) carefully planned success began in 2006 when chief geologist Jacob Rebek started looking for bauxite deposits on the eastern seaboard of Australia. Rebek’s discoveries and enthusiasm enticed Ian Levy to join ABx as managing director in 2008, who brought with him a wealth of bauxite project development experience from his time employed with CSR and WMC in Western Australia and Aurum in Fiji. Then, in 2009 the Indonesian Government passed a raft of laws to preserve the country’s limited bauxite resources for its own domestic industry, which it is now in the process of implementing. “ABx...
Vinacomin said that it had considered a halt to the Nhan Co bauxite project, but was scared about the major losses in its investment. At a press conference of the group on May 16, Vinacomin spokesman Nguyen Tien Chinh said, “We’ve spent a huge amount of money on the project. The EPC contract has been signed. How can we deal with the contract as a result of a halt in the project?” “Vinacomin has ever thought of stopping the project as well as its impact, but we didn’t dare because we may face big losses,” he added, emphasising that the group will continue the project. The Nhan Co bauxite project in Dak Nong has a design capacity of 650,000 tonnes per year. By April this year, total disbursement of Nhan Co aluminum project had reached VND6.836 trillion (USD325.2 million), including VND4.6...
Bauxite Resources new chief executive officer and executive director Peter Canterbury has commenced employment today. Canterbury joins Bauxite Resources from Sundance Resources, where he had been the chief financial officer for the past six years. He played a key role in rebuilding the company as acting chief executive following the tragic plane crash in June 2010 which claimed the lives of the CEO and the entire Board. Between 2001 and 2007, Canterbury was the chief financial officer of Dadco Europe which owns the Stade Alumina refinery in Germany and a share in the CBG bauxite mine in Guinea. During this time there he was responsible for finance, commerce and logistics. Earlier in his career he held several senior positions with Alcoa World Alumina in the finance, marketing and projects...
Resource security has long been creating a bottleneck restricting the development of China's aluminum industry. According to figures from the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, China's bauxite ore imports were on the rise during the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10). Imports reached 30.36 million tons in 2010, up 53.3 percent year-on-year, indicating a 45.18 percent dependence on foreign bauxite ore. For years, China has been making efforts to lower its dependence on bauxite ore imports. But the country's own limited bauxite reserves place it in a precarious position. Less than 3 percent of the world's bauxite ore reserves are located in China, yet the country is home to nearly 40 percent of the earth's total alumina production capacity. And with Indonesia and Australia now...
Rio Tinto Alcan has responded to claims a new bauxite mine on Queensland's Cape York would result in an additional 900 shipping movements. The mining company says the claims from the Australian Marine Conservation Society are wrong and the South of Embley project would only have an extra 60 bauxite shipping movements at most. Bauxite from the development will be shipped to Gladstone for use in the alumina industry.
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has finally given Rio Tinto the go-ahead for the $1.4 billion South of Embley bauxite expansion near Weipa on Cape York Peninsula, more than a year after the miner was sent back to the approvals drawing board to deal with Great Barrier Reef shipping concerns. Rio Tinto welcomed the decision, which sees the project 18 months behind schedule and, as a result, coming before the Rio board for development funds at a time of cost-cutting and curbs on new spending. "The South of Embley project would ensure our Weipa operations generate employment and other economic benefits for another 40 years," Rio Tinto Alcan bauxite and alumina chief Pat Fiore said. The project would extend the Weipa operations to an area south of the Embley River on the western side...
Hydro was one of the first companies in Pará to establish a partnership for the benefit of local development, supported by an Intentions Protocol with the state, through its Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Mining (SEICOM). The agreement will enable a development of a State Plan of New Business. According to Andreia Reis, head of Business Relationship & Development in Hydro's Bauxite & Alumina business area, the agreement "reinforces Hydro's commitment with growth of Pará and shows the importance of putting the public and private experiences together in order to organize actions which will contribute to the economic development of the region." Reis signed the protocol on behalf of Hydro in a ceremony at Casa da Mineração (Mining House) in Belém, capital of Pará state, on May 10. "Our...
Sesa Goa is looking to restart iron ore mining from Karnataka and expects a strong demand of the ore within the state, a top company official of its parent firm Vedanta Resources said today. "We expect to resume mining in Karnataka by June... we are in the process of securing necessary clearances" Vedanta's CEO M S Mehta said in a conference call, while announcing the annual results of the company. Noting that iron ore produced in Karnataka does not have the permission for exports, Mehta said that there is a "significant latent potential demand of iron ore within the state of Karnataka itself" and Sesa Goa is not looking to export the raw material from the state. Sesa Goa's mine in Karnataka's Chitradurga district is among the mines on which the Supreme Court had lifted the ban last...
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Union Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo's singular opposition to bauxite mining in the forest areas of Visakhapatnam has a newly-built plant scouting for alternative sources. Anrak Aluminium Limited, one of the two companies that had entered into an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government for setting up alumina refinery and smelter plants in 2007, in the district. The company had made an investment of about Rs 3,000 crore in the project in anticipation of bauxite supplies, admit the officials in the state government. With no resolution of the current stand-off in sight, Anrak has started operations by sourcing the raw material from Gujarat for the time being. "It started operations about 3 months ago but did not communicate anything officially to this effect to us," said...
The Centre is on a collision course with the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh over cancellation of bauxite mining leases in tribal dominated Vishakhapatnam district, with the state challenging the move and the tribal affairs ministry continuing to swear by the legislative rights of the forest dwellers. Andhra Pradesh government has argued against the cancellation, decided after a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in February, saying there will be no adverse environmental or ecological impact in the district. The Centre, however, maintains that the signing of MoUs with private companies flout the Forest Rights Act and provisions of Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act. Under the Forest Rights Act, which acknowledges the hereditary right of forest dwellers on...
