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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The State government has found itself on a sticky wicket over the bauxite mining issue after the Centre directed the State government to rescind leases granted to the APMDC in Visakhapatnam. The Centre’s insistence and the pressure exerted by Union Ministers V. Kishore Chandra Deo and Jairam Ramesh...
National Aluminium Company Limited has signed an MoU with the Ministry of Mines, on production and financial targets for the 2013-14 financial year. As per the MoU signed today in New Delhi, the company's sales turnover target has been fixed at $1.43 billion, which is about 10% higher than that of...
The Federation of Indian Mineral Industries has submitted a petition to the minister of Mines, Dinsha Patel, requesting him to withdraw and revise the export duty on bauxite. According to the petition, as a result of the export duty on bauxite, India has seen a 11% decline in exports. "The proposed...
According to China Customs, China imported 2.78 million mt of bauxite from Indonesia during February, down 25.25% YoY, but imports of Australian bauxite increased 11.76% YoY to 904,700 mt. China imported 1.89 million mt of bauxite from Australia during the first two months of this year, a gain of...
The State Government seeking the Central Government to review bauxite mining in Visakha Agency was only to go ahead with the mining, but any attempt to start mining would lead to serious consequences, CPI(M) district secretary Ch. Narasinga Rao said at a press conference here on Saturday. While...
Angola’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Georges Chicoti said on Thursday in Luanda that Angola was still interested in bauxite exploration in Guinea Bissau, but for that to happen there would need to be “a climate of peace.” Chicoti was reacting to recent accusations from the Guinea Bissau government...
CRU, independent commodity industry analysts and management consultants in the global metals, mining and fertilizer industries, have launched their new Bauxite Long Term Market Outlook, which provides detailed forecasts of the global bauxite industry. CRU’s team of industry experts has compiled the...
The Legislative Council was rocked on Thursday over the government’s stand on the bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam district and its refusal to give an assurance to cancel the mining lease given to the APMDC to supply ore to Anrak Company. The issue raised by M. V. S. Sharma to know if the Union...
The Ministry of Land and Resources announced on March 18 that Chalco Mining has obtained exploration rights for Yushan bauxite in Henan’s Xin’an County at a cost of RMB 924,900. The Henan Institute of Geological Survey announced discovery of 23.58 million mt of proven bauxite in Yushan, Xin’an...
Lower prices and higher costs translated into a modest loss for Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners. The St Ann-based company's parent reported a US$200,000 loss from its bauxite segment last year, following profits of US$18.5 million in 2011, and US$23.8 million the year before. The mining company...
The Department of Land and Resources of Henan Province announced on March 18 the discovery of 166.54 million mt of bauxite in west Caoyao of Mianchi County, Sanmenxi City as of late February, 2013, its biggest discovery in its exploration history. The Ministry of Land and Resources announced in...
The Republic of Guinea has tripled its production capacity of bauxite, from 7% of world bauxite production to 25% in 2020 to strengthen its leadership in bauxite production and processing sector. It is in this sense that the Guinean Minister of Mines and Geology, Mohamed Lamine Fofana, presented to...
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy evaded giving an assurance on the State Government banning bauxite mining in the Scheduled Areas while two Union Ministers Jairam Ramesh and Kishore Chandra Deo urged the State Government to cancel the MoU entered into on the subject as they were in violation of...
Union minister for panchayat raj and Araku MP Kishore Chandra Deo and Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh urged the state government to ensure that ANRAK was not given permission to mine bauxite in the Chintapalli region. Raising the issue at a meeting at G K Veedhi in Visakhapatnam...
Despite pubic concerns, Tan Rai and Nhan Co. bauxite projects in the central highlands region are necessary for the development of Vietnam’s aluminium industry, one official said. The projects had been carefully considered before assigning them to the state-owned company Vietnam National Coal and...
Investing in two pilot bauxite projects in the Central Highlands is the right move for Vietnam and will pave the way for the country's aluminium industry to take off, according to Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang. "The decision to go for these two projects was made after careful...
Bauxite Angola, the Angolan company that plans to explore bauxite deposits in the East of Guinea Bissau, has done nothing since it signed an exploration contract seven years ago, the Minister for Natural Resources of the Guinea Bissau transitional government said in Bissau. Interviewed by public...
As requested by the Prime Minister of Vietnam, the two bauxite plants Tan Rai and Nhan Co will have their capacities unchanged during the trial period from now to 2015, said Nguyen Manh Quan, director of the Heavy Industry Department under the trade ministry. By 2020, their capacities would be...
