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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China Customs data show that China imported 26.72 million metric ton of bauxite during January-May. SMM data indicate that Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group alone accounts for 51% of total imports. Domestic alumina producers reliant on imported bauxite include Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group,...
Further to the announcement dated 17 April 2013 regarding Yankuang Resources Pty Ltd outstanding cash calls payable to the Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture, Bauxite Resources Limited wishes to inform the market that as of 26 June 2013, these payments, including the sum owing to BRL referred to in the...
The Centre has raised concerns over Odisha government's reluctance to let all the gram sabhas in Raygada and Kalahandi districts decide the fate of Vedanta's alumina refinery and bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri as per the Supreme Court. Odisha government has told the Centre that it will conduct...
First Bauxite Corporation announces the positive results of conductivity testing conducted on 4 size fractions of Intermediate Strength Proppants ("Guyprop(TM)-ISP") manufactured in a laboratory, using bauxite from the Company’s 100% owned Bonasika 1 deposit, in Guyana. Stim-Lab, which conducted...
According to China Customs, China imported 3.775 million mt of bauxite from Indonesia in May, down 30.9% YoY. The CIF price of Indonesian bauxite was USD 51.1/mt, a new monthly high so far this year. The CIF price of Indonesian bauxite was USD 43/mt before the Indonesian government hiked bauxite...
China Customs data show that China imported 6.15 million mt of bauxite in May, down 0.41% YoY. YTD imports through May amounted to 26.72 million mt, up 10.5% YoY. China imported 3.775 million mt of bauxite from Indonesia in May, down 30.9% YoY, and 17.39 million mt during January-May, also down...
The Centre has told the Odisha government that it cannot take short cuts on the Supreme Court’s order to hold village meetings on Vedanta Aluminium's proposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills. The state government had told the tribal affairs ministry it would hold gram sabha or village...
The export of bauxite by the Ghana Bauxite Company increased significantly by 88 per cent from 400,069 tons in 2011 to 752,771 tons in 2012. “The increase in volumes contributed to a significant increase in the corresponding mineral revenue by about 113 per cent from $13,406,433 the year earlier to...
Criticising undue political interference and NGO activism, a Odisha-based geoscientists’ body favoured bauxite mining atop Niyamgiri Hills, saying it would in no way affect the lifestyle of tribals and their century-old socio-cultural and religious practises. “With adequate safeguards provided for...
The deplorable state of the Western rail line remains a major problem for bulk producers of manganese and bauxite, forcing them to use costlier road transport to haul their minerals and equipment, according to Dan Owiredu, President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines. Speaking at the chamber’s 85th...
International human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International, has urged the Odisha government to hold gram sabhas in all 80 odd Dongria Kondh Adivasi (Indigenous) and other Adivasi villages in Niyamgiri hills which are likely to be affected by bauxite mining for an alumina refinery of Vedanta...
The U.S. government said it will work with its counterparts in Guinea on transparency measures in the minerals and mining industry. Guinea is the world leader in the production of bauxite, an aluminum ore, and one of the leading producers of iron ore. The country's mining sector generates more than...
Mr. Le Viet Quang, Chairman, Lam Dong Aluminum Company, has said that the construction of the Tan Rai bauxite project in Lam Dong Province has been completed, with 1.6 million tons of bauxite ore mined. The first phase of this project is designed with a capacity of 650,000 tons of alumina a year....
Sun City Energy recently installed one of the first integrated solar shingle roofing systems in the region on the new Saint-Gobain manufacturing facility at Bauxite in Saline County, according to Sun City President and CEO Pam Speraw. Saint-Gobain is the parent company of CertainTeed, which...
Nalco would be securing access to a new 65-million ton bauxite reserve to expand its alumina refinery from 2.1 million tons a year to 3.1 million tons a year, by 2016. According to a company official, the bauxite reserves at Pottangi, in the East Indian province of Orissa where the country’s...
Gold and base metals explorer Ord River on Tuesday announced that it would look to farm-out or divest of its Sarco bauxite and aluminium project, in Laos, in an effort to focus on its gold assets. The miner told shareholders that it was fully focused on becoming a gold producer within the next...
Aziana Limited has extended the scale and scope its bauxite exploration project at Manantenina in Madagascar with the acquisition of additional exploration permits. The Soanomeiny blocks total 18.75 square kilometres and cover most of the area between the company’s Ampasimena and Esama Blocks,...
The Union ministry of tribal affairs (MoTA) has objected to the Odisha government's decision to hold gram sabhas in only 12 villages of Niyamgiri hill slopes to decide the fate of bauxite mining for Vedanta Group’s alumina plant. In a letter to Odisha chief secretary BK Patnaik on Friday, the union...
