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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Water, land and forest are our own. No Government can mine in our hill. We have been praying our ancestral land and hill for decades and we are living here because of them. If Niyamgiri is allowed to mine, there will be conflict and bloodshed. We won’t allow bauxite to be transported from the hill,” said the native tribals. Hundreds of Dongria Kondh reasserted their pledge not to leave the Niyamgiri hill while sacrificing hens and pigs before their deity Dharni Penu at a two-day festival held on February 22 and 23. A few tribes vowed before the God that they would not allow the hill to be mined till their last breath to the State Government and Vedanta. The members of the Niyamgiri Suraksha Samiti also felicitated tribal leaders Lado Sikoka, Dadhi Pushika, Bari Pidika, Haribandhu Kadraka,...
After the Prime Minister agreed to halt the construction of Ke Ga Port, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to assign the Coal and Mineral Industry Group Viet Nam (Vinacomin) to look for an alternative plan for production mining project of Tan Rai and Nhan Co bauxite. The research is to find out an immediate and long term plan and will be reported to the Prime Minister in quarter 2 of 2013, Vice PM Hai instructed on Feb 24. The US$460-million facility, based in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, and operated by state coal and mineral group Vinacomin, has sold its very first batches of alumina at US$340 a ton. However, since the beginning experts raised doubts about the economic effectiveness of the project saying that the plant...
According to Chinese customs data.the country imported bauxite 5,137,200 tons,which increased 67.59% comparing with the same period a year ago. Based on the detailed analysis of the data ,The import volume from India increased 28.84% year-on-year, rising to 3,039,000 tons, The import volume from Indonesia rose to 3.039 million tons on January, a 28.84% increase year-on-year, link increase by 34.95%.Imported from Australia totaled 986000 tons, a 49.09% increase year-on-year, link increased by 34.70%.In addition,imported from India /guinea and Ghana o are increasing, especially for the first time for China to import Ghana bauxite, the import enterprise was chongqing bosai mining group. For the imports of bauxite total picks up,there are three reasons.firstly,the new alumina capacity in...
Bauxite Resources Limited has commenced a program of work on exploration licence E70/2230 (known as Fortuna), adjacent to the 73.3Mt Felicitas bauxite resource. The bauxite rights to the Fortuna prospect are entirely BRL's while the Felicitas resource forms part of the Company's joint venture with Yankuang Resources Pty Ltd, the Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture ("BAJV") in which BRL has a 30% interest. BRL's Fortuna bauxite drilling program consists initially of approximately 300 vacuum drill holes on 160 x 80 metre spacing for an estimated 2,000 metres. Drilling is scheduled to be completed by end of March, 2013. The drilling program will cover an area of predominantly cleared farmland of approximately 320 hectares and is designed to test the lateral extension of the Felicitas bauxite...
Although Tan Rai, Vietnam’s first bauxite plant, has already become operational and had its very first batches of products, experts close to the matter say the plant will be facing a paradox in which more products mean more losses. The US$460-million facility, based in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, and operated by state coal and mineral group Vinacomin, has sold its very first batches of alumina at $340 a ton, according to Nguyen Canh Nam, assistant of the Vinacomin’s board of members. “But the products are only locally consumed as there have yet to be ports for exports,” he admitted. Production price is estimated at some $295 a ton, which means the plant has made profit, he said. However, he added that the production price is calculated on the condition that the plant...
China's biggest aluminium-maker will revive its controversial bid for rich bauxite deposits on Cape York Peninsula, pitching it against mining giant Rio Tinto and five other contenders. Chalco has moved after Queensland's Liberal National Party government dropped a condition the successful developer of the Aurukun bauxite lode also build a refinery to process the ore in Australia. The latest figures on foreign land purchases in Queensland -- the only state to collect and publish comprehensive data -- reveal Chinese investors snapped up $234 million worth of country last financial year, more than double its nearest rival, Britain. Government-owned Chalco, the world's second biggest alumina producer, said it was confident its existing bond with the Aurukun community would put it ahead of...
Miners will be asked to relinquish leases on the Mitchell Plateau under the WA Labor's plans to establish national parks in the Kimberley region. If Labor wins Western Australia's March 9 state election, talks would begin with several companies that are exploring mainly for bauxite on the Mitchell Plateau, Opposition Leader Mark McGowan said. These include Rio Tinto and Alcoa. "We will commence negotiations with the mining lease holders on the Mitchell Plateau to ensure that over time, it is put into a national park," he told reporters on Friday. The threat of future mining on the Mitchell Plateau should be removed, Mr McGowan said. "It is a beautiful area and the idea that it may one day be mined under state agreement acts signed 40 or 50 years ago is not acceptable," he said. "It should...
Taking a firm stand against bauxite mining in tribal areas of Visakhapatnam, Union Tribal Affairs Minister V Kishore Chandra Deo has written a letter to the Mining Ministry for cancellation of all such licences in Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to Union Mining Minister Dinsha Patel on February 10, Deo said silence in the matter will further aggravate apprehensions of tribals living in areas where bauxite mining by some companies was underway. Deo categorically mentioned the permits/MoUs signed between Andhra Pradesh government and some companies for bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam. "I request you (Patel) to have the requisite communication sent by your Ministry to the Government of Andhra Pradesh to revoke/cancel the impugned MoU which are ultra vires the Constitution. I shall appreciate a...
The Supreme Court on Thursday concluded hearing in Niyamgiri mining case. But the court has reserved its judgment. The apex court has concluded hearing on Thursday. All parties have been asked to submit their written arguments by Monday. The court is expected to pronounce its order in few days, said Saswat Mishra, chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) of Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), which had challenged the revocation of forest clearance of the Niyamgiri mine. On August 24, 2010, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) cancelled the Stage II forest clearance for mining of bauxite at Niyamgiri in Kalahandi district based on N C Saxena panel recommendation which said the mining in the area would severely affect the ecology as well as the primitive tribal group of Dongria...
The Supreme Court has sought the Centre's view on inclusion of tribal people in the mainstream, saying they should be allowed to choose facilities such as roads, schools, hospitals and electricity in the wider debate over preservation of their habitat. The remarks were made by a three-judge bench on Wednesday in response to Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran's opposition to the Odisha government's plan to mine the Niyamgiri hills for bauxite, the raw material that Anil Aggarwal-led Vedanta Group wants for its plant at Lanjigarh. "You want tribals to continue to be tribals for the next century? Have you found out if they were given modern-day benefits such as roads, schools, hospitals and electricity, will they not accept?" the bench, led by JusticeAftab Alam, said. "Will the FRA (Forest...
Villagers protesting against Hindalco's plan to mine bauxite at Mali Parbat in the Koraput district in Odisha have come up with a unique proposal that offers to compensate the state for its loss in revenue from royalty. Forty one villages from the district, two thirds of whose largely tribal population live below poverty line, have proposed to soon pass panchayat resolutions promising to pay Rs 35 crore, or what they estimate will be the royalty Hindalco is likely to pay the state over 15 years of the project's life. Hindalco estimates that its industrial activity in the backward region will earn the state three to four times as much. The Aditya Birla group company won rights to mine 8 milion tonnes of bauxite and got relevant clearances in 2006. Bauxite is used to make alumina, and...
Jamaican Government is to offer mea culpa to Parliament, before seeking support for a Bill to validate its actions pertaining to the misuse of funds accumulated under the Bauxite (Production Levy) Act since 1999. A Bill to this effect, titled The Bauxite Act, was tabled last week by Minister of Finance and Planning, Dr Peter Phillips, who led the first and second reading in the House of Representatives last week. However, while the Bill has not generated much interest either inside or outside of Parliament, it is seen by those in the know as a fundamental departure from the way successive governments have handled the Capital Development Fund (CDF) which is financed by the payments from the 38-year-old bauxite levy in the past. It is also seen as another effect of the International...
The environment ministry has defended in the Supreme Court its decision to deny forest clearance under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) to Orissa Mining Corporation's plan to mine the Niyamgiri Hills to source bauxite for Vedanta's alumina plant, while simultaneously leaving the door open for possible dilution of the Forest Rights Act in other project areas. The alumina plant was granted environmental clearance in 2007. Forest clearance to mine the hills for bauxite for the plant was to follow, but was denied during former environment minister Jairam Ramesh's tenure. Both OMC and Vedanta's Indian arm Sterlite have challenged in court the MoEF's refusal to give forest clearance to mining. The MoEF has defended its refusal to give permission to divert forest land for mining in the hills on...
It is estimated that China’s Bauxite mining will extend to the North of Nawailevu,Fiji.By this,mining tasks in this district has been finished,while Aurum Exploration Limited Co. has offered China the sixth lot of Bauxite recently.As the Minister of Department of Mineral Resource said,since the current work zone was divided into two parts,this area actually is not a new polder. According to CRU as Indonesia is likely to ban Bauxite export in 2014,Fiji is considered as one of sources of China’s Bauxite instead of Indonesia.China has began to import Bauxite from Fiji since the third season of 2012,and only in the latter half of the year,total imported volume has reached 285,000 tons.
RSB Metaltech Ltd, part of the Odisha based RSB Group, has sought long-term bauxite supply for its 0.70 million tonne per annum alumina refinery proposed at Rayagada. “Considering the mega investment and the corresponding socio-economic development for the state arrangement of sourcing of bauxite for shorter horizons will not be prudent,” the company said. RSB’s alumina refinery and its smelter at Dhenkanal envisages an investment of Rs 6,800 crore. As a buyer of bauxite, RSB Metaltech wants to be associated right from the exploration of the mine and also during formulation of the mine plan, so that the assured quality of bauxite is delivered over the life of the alumina plant. It has also called for offering of bauxite at a cost comparable to that of its competitors. “We request the...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd on Friday told Odisha government's inter-ministerial committee headed by finance minister Prasanna Acharya that bauxite reserves in non-forest area can be utilized to meet the needs of its one million tonne refinery, which has been shut down since December 5 due to non-availability of bauxite. VAL had applied for 14 provisional lease and 12 mining lease of bauxite mines in the state close to its refinery. But it has not been allotted a single one. Pleading before the Committee, the VAL executives sought allocation from some six non-operational bauxite mines for short-term supply of raw material to alumina plant on the basis of value addition purpose within the state. VAL has suggested the Committee to either open closed mines through the state owned Odisha Mining...
The Centre is set to cancel bauxite mining leases given to the a Middle Eastbased company in Andhra Pradesh's tribal-dominated Vishakhapatnam district for violating Forest Rights Act and provisions of Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act. The move may have impact on mining operations across the country. The decision, taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, applies to the leases given in Vishakhapatnam area to AnRak, a company of Ras al Khaimah of the United Arab Emirates, by the Congress government in the state between 2005 and 2009, when the late chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy was at the helm. According to an official, who did not wish to be named, it was decided at the meeting that mines minister Dinsha J Patel and tribal affairs minister V Kishore...
The Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Friday asked the state government to allot small bauxite deposits for its defunct Lanjigarh refinery to resume operation. The VAL chief operating officer (COO) Mukesh Kumar made a presentation here to highlight the refinery's plight and possible solution to the current crisis before a three-member inter-ministerial committee, headed by finance minister Prasanna Acharya. Kumar said many small bauxite reserves are lying unutilised with the state government and could be made available for the one mtpa refinery. The plant, which was set up on the assurance of the state government to provide raw material, had to down its shutters on December 5, 2012, pushing a large number of families, dependent on the project for their livelihood in the remote Kalahandi...
