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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Government intends to rid itself of its stake in Clarendon Alumina Partners (CAP) in the next two months. "We are currently in discussions with potential partners in CAP which is aimed at taking CAP off the Government's accounts totally by the end of this calendar year," Finance Minister Dr Peter...
Cape Alumina says it has now discovered an estimated 200 million tonnes of bauxite during exploration on Cape York in far north Queensland. The ABC reports the company holds exploration permits covering 1900 square kilometres in the western Cape region. "We've got an exploration target of 400...
After being shut for nine days due to lack of bauxite, the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district opened on Monday with arrival of some raw material. "The refinery plant, which was temporarily shut down on October 13, has opened and re-started...
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...
Mining company Sociedade Mineira de Investimentos Bauxite Angola is interested in the possibility of new shareholders, in order to boost its share capital, says mining engineer Guilherme António. Macauhub News Agency reports that António, who gave the information to Angolan news agency Angop, said...
Voicing concern over the fate of workers due to shutting down of the refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) in Kalahandi district, a senior BJP leader today asked the Odisha government to arrange bauxite from some source for the resumption of operation of the alumina plant. "Shut down of refinery...
A day after shutting down its bauxite refining unit at Lanjigarh temporarily citing unavailability of bauxite ore, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), has said it can hardly run its smelter facility at Jharsuguda for a month in the absence of enough alumina to run the plant. “Amid raw material supply...
The Nawailevu landowners of Bua in Fiji's northern island will receive over 600,000 Fiji dollars ($340, 000) next year in relation to bauxite mining after receiving their first lump sum payment from a Chinese company earlier this year. Acting Permanent Secretary for Lands and Mineral Resources...
THE three bauxite shipments from Bua have brought back more than $8million within a span of four months following the first shipment in June. The fourth ship, currently being loaded at the qoliqoli of Navakasiga, will leave Fiji tomorrow and a fifth ship is already anchored in the same area. Mine...
The Green Bench of the Supreme Court resumes hearing Friday on the high-profile case involving mining of bauxite ore in the the Niyamgiri hills of the impoverished Kalahandi district of Odisha. In a writ petition, the state-run Orissa Mining Corp challenged the orders of the union ministry of...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), which had announced to close down its alumina refinery in Odisha from December 5 for want of bauxite, may go for a temporary shutdown of the facility in a day or two, much before the due date. With no immediate supply of bauxite in sight, the company said, it will be...
Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) has released a webcast with CEO Ian Levy regarding ABx's Three State-Significant Projects. Abx has developed a highly successful exploration model for discovering high quality bauxite; this model has allowed the company to pinpoint the most prospective targets...
Using his Constitutional powers, tribal affairs minister Kishore Chandra Deo has directed the Andhra Pradesh government to cancel bauxite mining leases to Andhra Pradesh Mining Development Corporation (APMDC) in the state's Aaraku valley to prevent reemergence of naxalism. The corporation has...
Indian Express reported that a few weeks after it brought a resolution giving state owned Orissa Mining Corporation first right over areas containing major minerals such as iron ore, bauxite and chromite, the Naveen Patnaik government has written to the Centre to allocate areas containing coal to...
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said bauxite mining would not be allowed at any cost in the Visakhapatnam agency area to protect the interests of tribals. He said this following reports that some private companies had shown interest in mining bauxite there. However, local villagers...
Perth-based bauxite explorer and developer, Bauxite Resources Limited provides an update on exploration progress for non bauxite minerals within its exploration licence tenure in Western Australia. The Company holds granted and pending exploration licences over an area of approximately 25,000 km2...
BAUXITE is a non-toxic mineral, says Mineral Resources Department (MRD) deputy director Venasio Nasara. Mr Nasara made the comment at a meeting attended by a group of government officials, district reps and chiefs in Lekutu, Bua on Thursday after media reports claimed the effects of bauxite mining...
The Jamaican government has disclosed a number of agreements it has secured to ensure the continued operation of the Ewarton bauxite plant in St. Catherine. It was earlier announced that the company’s 600 employees would be sent home starting this month as its parent company UC Rusal continues to...
