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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Australian Bauxite has been granted a trading halt by the ASX pending an announcement regarding a proposed capital raising. The company recently declared a 3.5 million tonne maiden bauxite resource for its Mining Lease ML80126 in Queensland. This allows Australian Bauxite to define a resource size...
Shares in Bauxite Resources jumped on the ASX today after the Perth-based miner announced the appointment of former Sundance Resources executive Peter Canterbury as chief executive. Bauxite Resources chairman Barry Carbon said Mr Canterbury was the ideal choice to lead the company through its next...
The community affected by the closure of the Vedanta alumina refinery at Langigarh met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during his recent visit at Biswanathpur in Kalahandi district urging him to intervene in the plant closure issue. Three delegations representing members of displaced families, people...
Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro sees "interesting" opportunities in China's growing import markets for bauxite and alumina, while global markets for aluminum metal remain oversupplied, Chief Executive Svein Richard Brandtzaeg said Tuesday. "China's still short on bauxite production," Mr....
Vedanta Aluminium, a unit of Anil Agarwal-owned London-listed Vedanta Resources, is still struggling for bauxite linkage even after it was forced to close down its one million tonne refinery two months ago due to non-availability of bauxite - the key raw material used to produce alumina. The Naveen...
Since the South African management, headed by Theo Keyter took over the Vimetco Bauxite Mining Company, positive changes have started taking place in the company as confessed by the hitherto aggrieved workers and community people. I recently visited the company office at the Gondama Plant Site...
The pilot plant being established to undertake the extraction of rare earth elements from the island’s bauxite waste (red mud), will have no negative impact on the environment, says Executive Director of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Dr. Paris Lyew-Ayee. The assurance has come following...
Bauxite Resources Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Peter Canterbury as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director. Mr Canterbury joins Bauxite Resources from Sundance Resources Ltd., where he has been the CFO for the past six years. He played a critical role in...
