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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Emerging bauxite development company, Australian Bauxite Limited is drilling ahead of schedule in Tasmania at Bauxite Deposit DL-130 located 65km south-south-west of Bell Bay deepwater port in a privately owned plantation that is under harvest. Thicker than expected bauxite has been encountered up...
The Queensland Government has used a Community Cabinet meeting in the states far north to talk up plans for more bauxite mining on Cape York. Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney says he wants to revive plans to mine the lucrative bauxite deposits near the Aurukun Aboriginal community, north of Cairns....
Ten tons of medical equipment valued at more than fifty thousand dollars have been dispatched by the International Bauxite and Aluminum Company in Russia (Rusal), following the recent Outbreak of cholera in Sierra Leone. Speaking on the arrangement for the dispatch of the consignment, Sierra...
State-promoted listed company Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Ltd has floated tenders to sell its bauxite calcination plant in Kutch district. This comes at a time the PSU is busy setting up a Rs 12,000-crore joint venture with Nalco in the State. The plant, having a production capacity of...
Northern Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills says his government will do all it can to help co-ordinate a new gas pipeline to a bauxite mine in Arnhem Land. The Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery are the chief employers in the nearby town of Nhulunbuy in Arnhem Land but have been making a loss...
Around 700 people, including employees and families displaced by Vedanta Alumina Limited at Kalahandi's Lanjigarh, met the district collector at Bhawanipatna on Tuesday and requested him to ensure supply of bauxite to the factory so that it does not shut down. They said closure of VAL would affect...
A GROUP of villagers in Bua have raised concerns over depleted marine resources in their qoliqoli blaming bauxite as a contributing factor. The villagers of Naiviqiri District have taken their concern to the chiefs of Bua asking for their assistance in resolving the issue. District rep Salacieli...
Reports of Nhulunbuy's bauxite mine being on brink of closure have been dismissed as "alarmist''. Member of the Legislative Assembly Lynne Walker said: "I don't believe for one minute that it will happen." The alumina operation is the sole reason for the town's existence. It employs 1500 workers...
The president of the East Arnhem Chamber of Commerce says the town of Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory is feeling the effects of a cost-cutting exercise by the nearby bauxite mine and refinery. Pacific Aluminium has begun a natural attrition process, due to tough business conditions caused by...
The bauxite mining and refining operation on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory has stopped replacing workers who leave their jobs, in an effort to cut costs. The strong Australian dollar and poor prices for bauxite and aluminium products have forced the mine's owners, Pacific Aluminium,...
Vedanta Aluminium has called on the government to restrict bauxite exports and allow more mines to ensure that India's domestic industry, including Vedanta's own alumina refinery, has sufficient supplies. The company's refinery in Odisha has been operating at 70 percent of its capacity of 1 million...
Maoist fear looms large in Jharkhand's Lohardaga District as bauxite mine workers abandoned their work, following threats from the extremists. The people living in nearby villages said till now they were working in the bauxite mines of the region without facing any problem. But recently, posters...
The Wilderness Society has questioned the economic benefits of a proposed bauxite mine on far north Queensland's Cape York Peninsula. Cape Alumina says the Queensland Government's declaration of its Pisolite Hills mine as a "significant project" has prompted it to resume planning and negotiations...
The Queensland government has declared the Pisolite Hills bauxite mine, which Cape Alumina is developing, a “significant project”, prompting the ASX-listed miner to resume work on the project. The development of the Pisolite Hills project was put on hold in October 2010 after the previous state...
A coalition of Cape York councils is planning to lobby the State Government to be included in its Royalties for the Regions program. The government has promised to invest almost $500 million over four years in regions under pressure from resource development. Aurukun Shire Council CEO John Japp...
Attracting investors to the mining town of Linden is key to government’s developmental agenda for the people and the region. As such, Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh explained that investors continue to express interest in the mining sector that has contributed significantly to the Gross Domestic...
United Co Rusal could restart the Friguia alumina refinery in Guinea if the government grants it further bauxite concessions, first deputy ceo Vladislav Soloviev told Metal Bulletin. “Among our working refineries, Friguia is the most expensive in terms of production costs. We incurred losses in the...
Apprehensive about the future of the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district, local people observed a bandh demanding bauxite for the company. With VAL having to run its refinery at 40-50 percent of its capacity, the people under the banner of the Lanjigarh...
