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 global demand for bauxite, from which the aluminium smelter feedstock alumina is derived, is likely to rise at an annual rate of 6.9 per cent from 220 million tonnes (mt) in 2011 to 750 mt in 2030. The world is richly endowed with bauxite mineral, distributed across all continents. And, a good...
Bauxite mining company Suralco is in the red and needs to change its policy drastically to be able to compete on the world market. Production costs have to be cut, but although this may look like a difficult task, it is not unachievable, says the new Managing Director Ruben Halfhuid. He is ready...
Utkal Alumina International Limited (UAIL), a bauxite mining and refinery project in Rayagada district, is expected to be operational soon. "The project is ready for commissioning and we are hopeful that it will be operational within the next six months," said Rajesh Kumar Jha, who took over as the...
Bauxite Resources Limited provides the June 2012 Quarterly Activities and Cashflow Reports. The key points of the report are: - JORC Bauxite resources increased by 172% to 139.5Mt - New 73 Mt Felicitas bauxite resource announced - May 2012 - New 15 Mt Ceres bauxite resource announced - July 2012 -...
China’s private mining group Bosai plans to invest $1 billion to build an alumina plant in Indonesia after the Southeast Asian country implemented a series of policies to restrict raw material exports. The company has reached an initial agreement with Indonesian parties to build a 2 million tpy...
Miners are dusting off plans to develop Cape York, buoyed by the prospect that Queensland would scrap laws protecting "wild" rivers and boost economic activity across the peninsula. Bauxite miner Cape Alumina is assessing the viability of its $1.2 billion Pisolite Hills project, which was stalled...
Votorantim Metais (VM) is discussing the development of a bauxite project in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, local media reported. The complex will be set up in the city of Rondon, will extract about 7.1 million tpy of bauxite and will include a refinery producing about 3 million tpy of...
Vimetco, the global producer of primary and processed aluminium products, has announces that its bauxite producing subsidiary, Sierra Minerals Holdings (SMHL), has signed an updated Mining Lease Agreement (MLA) with the Government of Sierra Leone. Under this agreement the Company's Mining Lease, of...
A policy proposal to protect agricultural communities in WA from mining has been submitted to the State Government. The proposal has been developed by the Residents for Responsible Mining, a community group based at Chittering, about an hour north of Perth. The group was formed three years ago in...
State-run Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) today reported 11.36 per cent jump at Rs 170.51 crore in its net profit for the quarter ended June. The company's profit in the corresponding period last year was Rs 153.11 crore, an official statement said. Backed by good mining practices,...
Alcoa announced today that its Sandow Mine in Rockdale, Texas received the "Good Neighbor Award" in the 2012 Excellence in Surface Coal Mining Awards from Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM). Alcoa was recognized for successfully working with the community while conducting...
Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, says the Government is exploring the possibility of producing aluminium locally. Speaking at Wednesday's (July 25) Jamaica House media briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister, Mr. Paulwell said details of the undertaking...
A South West anti-mining action group has called on local MP and Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman to back a proposal it claims would protect the Warren-Blackwood electorate from strip mining for bauxite. Mr Redman recently backed Mines Minister Norman Moore’s blocking of coal mining in a...
XINFA Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Limited is expected to ship out a total of 70,000 tonnes of bauxite to China at the end of next month. This was confirmed by company spokesman Basilio Vanuaca who said this was the second shipment of bauxite for this year. "Right now, the loading of bauxite is...
Bauxite Resources Limited announces the initial Resource for the Ceres deposit, part of its emerging Williams bauxite project area in southwest, Western Australia. The resource is situated on a number of large farms north of Williams, located 150km south of Perth, close to the Perth-Albany highway...
The Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT) has expressed grave concern over the continuing stagnation in the mining sector in Odisha leading to a drastic fall in availability of mineral resources in the state. According to SGAT, nearly 490 out of the 600 leased mines are not in...
Union minister Kishore Chandra Deo has criticized the Andhra Pradesh governor for inaction on his request to stop bauxite mining in Vishakhapatnam, saying that special powers of Raj Bhavans were a waste if not used to safeguard the interests of tribals. Deo had written to Andhra governor E S L...
Noranda Aluminum Holding Co reported second-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates as higher shipments of aluminum and flat-rolled products offset lower prices. Aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange dropped about 20 percent in the second quarter due to high inventories, prompting Wall...
