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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Noranda aluminium plans to start a US$11 million (J$970 million) expansion of its harbour capacity at Port Rhodes in Discovery Bay this year. The local investment, along with plans to build a US$45-million rod mill in the US, proved attractive “because their value-creation is largely independent...
Reuters reported that Chinese owned bauxite producer Bosai Minerals Group has halted its Guyana operation due to civil unrest that has killed three people. Bosai is reconsidering a planned expansion of the facility. Police shot three people dead in the city of Linden, 65 miles from the capital of...
Tribals of Koraput's Mali hills of Orissa have threatened to launch an agitation from August 9 if the government does not stop mining activities in their area. Taking up cudgels under the Mali Parbat Surakhya Samiti (MPSS), tribals alleged that 44 villages in Sorispodar, Hudi, Dalaiguda and...
China's imports of bauxite tumbled to the lowest level in more than three years, and those of nickel ore fell 12 percent from an all-time high in May after Indonesia, the main supplier, tightened exports. Arrivals of bauxite, the ore used to produce aluminum, tumbled to 1.02 million metric tons,...
The Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT) has vehemently opposed Union tribal welfare minister V Kishore Chandra Deo’s demand for stoppage of bauxite mining in Eastern Ghats. “We strongly refute observations of the Union tribal welfare minister as these are not based on facts,”...
Emerging bauxite exploration and development company, Australian Bauxite Limited has received laboratory and exploration results from drilling and surface exploration at its newly consolidated 11 Tasmanian exploration tenements totalling 1,897 square kilometres in central Northern Tasmania (Figure...
Renaissance Capital, a global investment firm, stated that last year, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Sub-Saharan Africa surged to a record of USD35 billion, reported Xinhua News. The company said that half of the amount was made in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, adding that FDI to West Africa...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), says it is moving to take action against bauxite mining company Windalco, over this week’s fish kill in the Rio Cobre in St. Catherine. NEPA said it is preparing to issue an Enforcement Order on Windalco to compel it to cease the discharge of...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says it will continue to work with the Bosai Minerals Group (Guyana) as it takes steps to install a dust collection system for Kiln #13 that used to process bauxite at its operations plant in Linden. This move follows closely on the heels the commissioning...
Except for commercial banks, most businesses in the bauxite mining town of Linden closed their doors and public transportation ground to a halt to mark the beginning of a five-day shutdown against a hike in electricity tariffs. Businesses, including the post office, did not open Wednesday....
Anglo African Minerals plc, the dedicated bauxite exploration and development company is pleased to announce the terms of a private share placement of 7,590,000 ordinary shares of EUR0.001 for total subscription funds of EUR759, 000. As a consequence of this funding a number of loans associated...
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has vowed to overhaul laws to allow Rio Tinto to proceed with its $1.4 billion South of Embley bauxite mine at Cape York. Mr Newman, who also announced a six-month action plan at the Liberal National Party annual convention in Brisbane on Friday, said his...
Rio Tinto says jobs will go at a central Queensland mine as the company battles falling coal prices. The mining giant says it is looking at ways to reduce its costs at its Clermont Coal Mine, west of Mackay, to improve competitiveness as the price of thermal coal drops. "A review is underway and...
Diversified giant Rio Tinto has reported production increases for its iron-ore, copper, bauxite and alumina and coking coal operations during the second quarter ended June. He noted that the quarter under review was influenced by the global economic conditions, and market sentiment, which dropped...
UC RUSAL 's announcement that it has not taken a decision to close its bauxite plant in Ewarton appears to have been influenced by the Government's intention to revoke the special mining lease the Russian firm now holds on two alumina plants — Alpart and Kirkvine — that have remained idle for three...
Workers of the Niksic-based Bauxite Mines have accepted the Government's offer related to the timeframe for payment of salaries and stopped their eight-day blockade of the company's administration building. The President of the Independent Trade Union Borislav Bojanovic said that the Government...
Bauxite Resources Limited is a minerals explorer with two joint venture bauxite projects in the Darling Range in Western Australia. Bauxite Resources is the largest exploration licence holder in the Darling Range covering approximately 24,000 km2. With its Chinese joint venture partners, Bauxite...
The long-awaited dust collector system on kiln #14 at the Bosai bauxite plant was put into full operation today at 9:40 am. As was anticipated, there was no dust emission from the kiln except a very minimal amount of smoke when the kiln started up and which lasted only a few seconds. The rest of...
