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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Chongqing Nanchuan Area will import bauxite from West Africa. It is learned that since this year Ghana will produce 2,500 thousand tons of bauxite, all supply to Nanchuan Xianfeng Alumina Company which was owned by Bosai Group. This was the first time for Africa bauxite to delivery to China, also...
The government of Cameroon is in the process of recruiting legal, financial, mineral and industrial advisers with whom it can work alongside Cameroon Alumina Limited (CAL) in view of preparing and signing a mining convention for the multi-billion Minim-Martap/Ngaoundal Bauxite Project in the...
Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the Caribbean island's top mining official said Tuesday. Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said...
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh categorically told a team of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) officials on Sunday he is not the forest and environment minister and that he cannot do anything to help them mine Niyamgiri hills in Lanjigarh. The team, led by VAL chief operating officer...
China lowered tariff of bauxite export by fifteen percent. On January 1st, 2013, bauxite’s export tariff was reduced; meanwhile, mg, zinc and coke were also reduced. WTO pointed out Chinese tariff is not fair on January 30th 2013. It violated promise of joining WTO in 2001. In hence, China...
Chinalco Indonesia joint venture owned mine delivered first shipment of 57 thousand tons bauxite and the stock has reached Port of Rizhao. It is learned that Chinalco Hongkong Company work together with Indonesia joint venture finished all procedures of bauxite export on 14th December, 2012. The...
A demonstration was staged at Rayagada in Orissa to demand an immediate resumption of bauxite supplies to Vedanta's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh to protect the livelihood of thousands of people. The demand was made after a peaceful protest Thursday by over 500 labours who staged a demonstration at...
The Petitions Committee of the Legislative Assembly has recommended scrapping of the memorandum of understanding entered into by the State government for bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam district with the Emirate of Ras al Khaimah (Anrak) and Jindal South West Holdings Limited. The committee headed...
Close on the heels of the State government’s move to arrange dedicate supply to bauxite to Vedanta Alumina Limited’s Lanjigarh refinery near Karlapat sanctuary, activists have registered strong protest saying rich biodiversity of the place would be lost if mining is allowed there. Addressing a...
Anglo Aluminum Corp. reports that the Minister of Mines and Geology of the Republic of Guinea, West Africa, has granted, on December 26th, a one year extension to the Koba Koumbia permit held by Anglo's 51% owned subsidiary Amig Navasota Mining International SARL . The permit, comprising two...
”Boksit” company from Milici will start the production and ore shipments to alumina factory ”Birac” in Zvornik, and the removal of overburden will start later, due to weather conditions. Despite the crisis, the expectations are great for this year, since ”Boksit” is organizationally,...
Bauxite mining in the agency areas is in gross violation of the Constitution, says V. Kishore Chandra Deo Reiterating his opposition to wanton destruction of forests and hills under the guise of development, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs V. Kishore Chandra Deo said that he would follow up with...
WA’s mining industry has called for a full review of resource development in the Kimberley after Colin Barnett appeared to rule out development of a massive bauxite resource in the region owned by Rio Tinto and Alcoa. Association of Mining and Exploration Companies chief executive Simon Bennison...
After much delay, the Tan Rai bauxite plant finally shipped the first batch of alumina products, slow third quarter compared to the first plan. Vinacomin expected, this year could yield about 300 tons, equivalent to U.S. $ 460 million. According to the Vietnam Coal and Mineral Group (Vinacomin),...
The Board of Directors of S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. (S&B) and Greek Helicon Bauxites, 100% subsidiary of S&B, approved in their meetings held on 18/12/2012 and 28/12/2012, respectively, the spin-off of S&B's bauxite sector and its contribution to HB. The spin-off is an internal rearrangement to...
Hit by acute shortage of raw materials that led to closure of Vedanta’s refinery at Lanjigarh, the Odisha government today said it would explore every possibility of undertaking bauxite mining at Karlapat reserve in Kalahandi district. “We have decided to submit a revised application seeking...
Just under four years since the closure of bauxite/alumina plants Alpart in south eastern St Elizabeth and Kirkvine in central Manchester, economic gloom hangs heavy with unemployment on the rise and savings of ex-bauxite workers already spent or fast running out. There was a spark of hope late...
United Co. Rusal PLC said Monday it has signed an agreement with the government of the Republic of Guinea to develop the Dian-Dian bauxite deposit, the world's largest. The deal calls for developing the mine to be able to produce up to 3 million tons of bauxite by 2015. Rusal will also complete a...
