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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Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) is hopeful of running its 1-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, till December 5, buoyed by bauxite supplies from Gujarat Mineral Development Corp (GMDC) and Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (Balco)’s Kawardah mines in Chhattisgarh. The aluminium firm on September 6 had...
There are no direct side effects of bauxite on the natural ecosystem and villagers' claims that the mineral will adversely affect the environment are not true. Bauxite Mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said they were closely monitoring the surrounding areas of the mine and there was no evidence of such...
With the 30-year lease of the Panchapatmali bauxite mines allotted to the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) due to expire on November 16 which is likely to force closure of its refinery at Damanjodi, the State Government has decided to allow continuation of the lease of bauxite mines for the...
Emerging bauxite development company, Australian Bauxite Limited has bauxite tenements totalling more than 7,500 km2 covering the core of the Eastern Australian Bauxite Province . ABx considers its Tasmanian Project located within 100 km of Bell Bay Port to be a state significant discovery of a...
Nalco, till date, has mined only one third of the deposit to meet its requirement in the last 30 years The threat of Red rebels has cast a shadow of uncertainty over the renewal of National Aluminium Company's (Nalco) Panchpatmalli bauxite mines even as the company has intensified efforts to obtain...
Alumina Limited notes press reports that Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a challenge to an Indonesian Government ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, including bauxite. The Company does not have further details of the Court decision or Indonesian government plans on this matter.
As many as four companies have evinced interest in buying bauxite calcination plant run by state-owned mining major Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The plant having a production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year is located in Kutch district. The state PSU had floated tenders to...
Mubadala and Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG) have signed an agreement for the long-term export of bauxite to the UAE. The signing, which took place in Yas Hotel, was attended by General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed...
Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal on Thursday said that Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has promised to take steps on priority basis for supply of bauxite to the Vedanta Aluminum Limited’s (VAL) refinery at Lanjigarah in Kalahandi. However, he made it clear that the company would be compelled to...
Five other areas in the country have been identified for future bauxite mining. Mineral Resources assistant director Venasio Naisara said these areas are Nasorowaqa, Wainunu, Seaqaqa and areas between Lautoka and Ba. Naisara said from these areas, Chinese company Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited...
Public Sector National Aluminium Company seems to be heading for major crisis this month as the 30-year-old mining lease of company’s only bauxite mine in Koraput district is about to expire on November 16 with no signs of the lease getting renewed in the next couple of weeks. The central and north...
High-grade bauxite deposits in western Cape York could become China's preferred source if plans to expand mining in the world-class Weipa province go ahead. Exploratory miner Cape Alumina has significantly upgraded its resources to 202 million tonnes, which is about half of its target. Despite...
Approximately $10 million has been generated from the Bua bauxite mining so far. Mineral Resources assistant director Venasio Naisara said this is after five shipments of bauxite were shipped out to China by Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited. Naisara said mining has picked up very well given that it...
Jamaican Government is to take $1.8 billion from the Capital Development Fund, $1.4 billion of which is to be used for budgetary support. Dr Peter Phillips, the finance and planning minister, laid a withdrawal order in the House of Representatives today, indicating his intent to draw down on the...
Bauxite Resources Ltd, and its joint ventures has increased its overall JORC compliant bauxite resource base to 142.3 million tonnes with a new bauxite resource defined at the Bauxite Alumina Joint Ventures (BAJV) Cronus deposit approximately 15km east of Boyup Brook, Western Australia. This is the...
Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners saw its third-quarter profit plunge on near historically low aluminium prices. The subsidiary of US-based Noranda Aluminum Holdings posted a profit of US$0.3 million ($27 million) for the three months to September 30, compared to US$6.8 million in the corresponding...
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says the Commonwealth is taking too long to consider a proposed bauxite mine expansion in the state's far north. Rio Tinto Alcan is seeking federal environmental approval for a $1.5 billion bauxite mine and port development at Weipa on western Cape York. The...
Pacific Aluminium's (Rio Tinto) Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery are vital economic assets and critical parts of Australia's aluminium supply chain that must remain fully operational, according to The Australian Workers' Union (AWU). Pacific Aluminium today announced it would conduct a review...
