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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Rio Tinto Ltd's $1.4 billion South of Embley bauxite mine in Cape York will be helped along by a change in the laws, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has said, according to The Australian Financial Review. Mr Newman said he would streamline red and green tape for mining laws in Queensland, but...
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) holds the core of the newly discovered Eastern Australian Bauxite Province. Its 38 bauxite tenements in Queensland, NSW and Tasmania covering 8,250 km2 were rigorously selected on 3 Principles: 1. Good quality bauxite; 2. Proximity to infrastructure connected to...
Nearly 600 Jamaicans will be forced to join the unemployment line later this year as Russian aluminium giant UC Rusal moves to shut down its Ewarton plant in St Catherine. Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell, in a statement to the House of Representatives yesterday, said he was "verbally advised" on...
Energy Resources of Australia's Ranger mine in the Northern Territory returned to higher levels in the absence of the extreme rain events that dogged the operation in 2011. But as previously advised by ERA, Ranger was a loss-maker in the June half at the $50 million- $60m forecast range. The listed...
The future of the Niksic-based Bauxite Mines depends to a large extent on its employees and whether they will accept the proposal of the government representatives, the company's management said. The Bauxite Mines CEO Milorad Djurovic has invited the Independent Trade Union and workers to accept...
CPM politburo member, Brinda Karat on Tuesday said that the decision to allow bauxite and laterite mining in Vizag Agency by the state and Union government would turn the region into another Bellary, where illegal mining has taken a toll on normal lives. CPM politburo member, Brinda Karat on...
Guinea-focused bauxite miner Alufer Mining plans to invest $400 million to develop its Bel Air bauxite project in the Boffa region of the west African state, documents submitted by the company to the country's mines ministry showed on Monday. Alufer said in the documents seen by Reuters that it has...
A total of 40 teams will this year participate in the Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners (NJBP) Football League. The teams, which are drawn from the company's operating areas of Alexandria, Brown's Town and Discovery Bay, are playing for cash prizes of $300,000 and trophies. Matches in the league...
Three months after Union Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo wrote to Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan, urging him to exercise his constitutional powers to cancel the permission given for bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam as it was fuelling left- wing extremism there, the latter...
Kala Committee, which was supposed to conduct a field visit of the bauxite mining areas of Visakhapatnam, in fact did an aerial survey by a helicopter, apparently sponsored by mining companies! EAS Sarma, former secretary to the Government of India (GoI) is angry with the ministry of environment &...
Odisha’s proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy, aimed at attracting investors in non-metallurgical sectors has hit the wall of uncertainty. Though the draft of the policy was framed two years back, it has hardly moved ahead. Sources said, the finance department was not keen on doling out tax...
Mining production volumes of key minerals like coal, nickel, bauxite, perlite and bentonite in Greece is forecasted to decline by 3.2% in 2012, according a new report by the UK based research firm BRICdata. The decline is due to the country's worsening economic conditions over the past five years...
The Government was not able to give its position on the bid for a takeover of the Bauxite Mines Niksic, submitted by the Neksan company, because there was no common position of the workers and the management. The Government said that two trade unions of the company had completely opposite opinions...
Bauxite Resources Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Robert Samuel (Sam) Middlemas as Company Secretary with immediate effect. Sam Middlemas is a chartered accountant with more than 20 years experience in senior financial management and executive roles with a number of listed public...
LIGNITE Pty Ltd has withdrawn its applications for three Collie coal exploration licences, covering an area stretching from Collie Burn through Collie townsite to Allanson. Despite the withdrawal, Collie objectors will be back in the Warden’s Court next month to fight moves by Premier Coal and...
Polit Bureau member of the CPI (M) Brinda Karat will visit Visakha Agency on July 9 and 10 to participate in an agitation against bauxite mining and in a programme demanding a better deal to primitive tribal groups (PTGs). On July 11, she will lead a protest against the Collectorate here demanding...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Global Data's new report "Asia-Pacific Bauxite Mining Regulatory and Fiscal Regime Report, 2012 - Regulatory Framework, Rights and Obligations and Key Fiscal Terms" to their offering. Global Data's mining industry offering, Asia-Pacific Bauxite...
Potential bidders for mining tenements in Queensland are lobbying the recently-elected Newman government to resolve environmental, native title and infrastructure issues before calling for tenders, according to a report by The Australian. Chinese aluminium giant Chalco is among the strongest voices...
