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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Despite the Supreme Court’s order, the village councils, or gram sabhas of the Dongria Kondh tribals may not be able to decide upon their traditional and religious rights against the mining interests of Vedanta. A narrow interpretation of the Supreme Court order by the tribal affairs ministry...
Odisha High Court has nominated the district and sessions judges of Kalahandi and Rayagada to act as observers in the much-awaited Gram Sabha to decide fate of the proposed bauxite mining for Vedanta atop Niyamgiri Hills. “The High Court Registrar General has informed the state government about the...
Lok Shakti Abhiyan president Prafulla Samantara on Wednesday alleged the Odisha government was attempting to subvert the recent order of the Supreme Court relating to holding gram sabhas for a decision on proposed bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hill for Vedanta Group’s plant and sought Odisha governor...
Dr. Dang Trung Thuan, Chair of the Vietnam Geochemistry Association, feels that Vinacomin, the investor of the Central Highlands’ bauxite project – will find it hard to revert to the original state and recover the environment at the mining site. Vinacomin has committed to follow necessary steps in...
Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation jumped on bargain hunting after the stock fell 9.52% in the preceding eight trading sessions to INR 135.95 on 27 May 2013, from a recent high of INR 150.25 on 15 May 2013. The stock had underperformed the market over the past one month till 27 May 2013,...
Bauxite Resources Limited is pleased to announce a resource upgrade for the Felicitas bauxite deposit in the Darling Range Western Australia. The Felicitas resource is contained within the Company's Bauxite Alumina Joint Ventures ("BAJV") with Yankuang Resources Ltd. The resource is situated on a...
The Belarusian automobile manufacturer OAO BelAZ has shipped a batch of five mine dump trucks with the carrying capacity of 90 tonnes to Venezuela, representatives of the company told BelTA. The BelAZ 75570 vehicles were sold to the company CVG Bauxilum C.A. The vehicles will be used at the Los...
The Odisha Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe development department has issued notices to the district collectors of Rayagada and Kalahandi, asking them to conduct hearings ahead of Gram Sabhas at Niyamgiri hill range, which will decide the fate of the bauxite mining project there. As per the...
Odisha Government has requested Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court to nominate a judicial officer of the rank of district judge as observer for the proposed gram sabhas to be conducted for deciding grant of mining lease to Vedanta Group for bauxite mining. In an official communique to the...
The Vedanta Group is hopeful of tying up bauxite supplies to restart its alumina refinery in Lanjigarh, Odisha within the next 1-2 months. Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), the group arm which operates the unit, is in talks with a clutch of private miners in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh besides Gujarat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
