China’s bauxite imports continued to rise in the first nine months of 2026, with Guinea accounting for nearly 80 per cent of its total supply. Against this backdrop, Alurion Resources, an independent company following a demerger from Brazilian Rare Earths, is advancing its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Bahia, Brazil, through infill drilling, bulk sampling and export-logistics studies, targeting a pre-feasibility study (PFS) by mid-2027. The company’s September 2026 quarterly activities report outlines plans to improve bauxite resource estimates, assess processing yields and evaluate export routes, as it works towards establishing a scalable direct-shipping bauxite (DSB) operation. Explore the production, demand and consumption forecasts of bauxite and alumina in our report: "Global...
Metro Mining Limited shipped 2.1 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite in the third quarter of 2026, up 17 per cent from 1.8 million WMT in the previous quarter. However, shipments remained below the 2.25 million WMT recorded in Q3 2025. The Australian bauxite producer reported improved market pricing during the July–September quarter, with its delivered (CIF) price rising by 6.5 per cent to AUD 60.8 (USD 42.79) per WMT from AUD 57.1 (USD 40.18) per WMT in Q2. Site EBITDA increased to AUD 7 (USD 4.93) per WMT from AUD 4.4 (USD 3.10) per WMT. Mining and shipping operations faced maintenance work, equipment issues and channel erosion during the quarter. The company said its offshore floating terminal, Ikamba, underwent a one-week shutdown in July to replace four large hydraulic crane...
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Australian Bauxite has gone into voluntary suspension ahead of an announcement regarding a capital raising. The company has not yet given any indication of the allocation of funds, but the company recently expanded the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) at the Goulburn Bauxite Project due to thick bauxite discovered earlier in the year. Importantly, more than half of the 38 million tonne resource has been identified as high grade. Metallurgical Tests, part of the PFS, confirmed that the remaining 47% of total identified bauxite resources, called PDM-DSO bauxite, contains dense, hard, magnetic emery nodules. These are easily recovered by gravity screening for sale, leaving the remaining 70% light fraction as DSO grade bauxite. Shares in Australian Bauxite will remain in suspension until the...
ASX-listed Bauxite Resources has declared an initial resource of some 73-million tons at its Felicitas project, in Western Australia. The resource, which is less than 5 km from existing rail infrastructure, fell within the company’s bauxite alumina joint venture (BAJV) with Yankuang Resources. Bauxite Resources said on Tuesday that the Felicitas project is estimated to host an indicated resource of 20.9-million tons, at 39.2% aluminium oxide, and an inferred resource of 52.4-million tons, also at 39.2% aluminium oxide. The new resource provided a 143% increase to the total bauxite resource which Bauxite Resources has in interest, the company said. It added that the new Felicitas resource advanced the prospects of the BAJV, achieving its first stated aim of defining a maximum of 90-million...
After waiting some 20 years, India’s largest integrated aluminium refiner, the National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), was likely to gain access to the 75-million tons of bauxite reserve at Pattangi, in Orissa. In a communication with the company, the government of Orissa indicated that it had agreed, in principle, to earmark the Pottangi bauxite reserves for Nalco subject to the company agreeing to certain conditions, including the development of the peripheral areas and payment of water tax to the government. Gaining access to the Pottangi reserves was critical for Nalco’s $1.17-billion third-phase expansion, which had been put on hold for failing to secure new bauxite reserves. Nalco produces 345 000 t/y of aluminium linked to the 310-million bauxite reserves at Panchpatmali Hills...
Ecological balance is crucial to sustainable development and unless the government and people themselves stick to stringent norms of not violating the eco-norms, it will be a planet difficult to live on said speakers at awareness programme for faculty members of PVP Institute of Technology. The programme, sponsored by the Srinivasa Sales and Service Private Limited in association with The Hindu, brought out some interesting facts that made the teachers think about the environmental issues on the college campus on Monday. “The worst part of reducing pollution is not adhering to the implementation schedule or norms,” said Acharya Nagarjuna University Department of Environment Head A.V.V.S. Swamy. The government, instead of looking after the benefit of people, was allowing unhindered...
The lease for the Aurukun bauxite mine will be put on the market again but this time around the successful bidder won't have to build a new refinery. The tender for the new bauxite mine and alumina refinery had been won by Chinese company Chalco in 2007, but the deal folded in July 2011 because Chalco was unable to build the refinery. It's the second time the lease has folded. The original bauxite lease was issued to French mining company Pechiney in 1975 by the Bjelke-Petersen government but for the next 28 years it remained dormant. Deputy premier Jeff Seeney said on Tuesday that this time around the LNP government would take a fresh approach. "The conditions of establishing a refinery simply will not work," Mr Seeney said in a statement. "It was tried and failed, and with the looming...
The Queensland government is set to put its lucrative Aurukun bauxite leases up for sale, but it will not insist on the building of a refinery as part of the deal. The fate of the bauxite leases has been unclear since the former Bligh government broke off negotiations with Chinese aluminium giant Chalco 12 months ago because it failed to agree to build a $2.3 billion alumina refinery in North Queensland. Late last year the former government sounded out potential buyers of the leases, which include 500?million tonnes of bauxite, but had not made a decision before its landslide election defeat in March. Deputy Premier and Infrastructure Minister Jeff Seeney said he was likely to ditch the “value-add proposition” proposed by the former Bligh government and go for a straight sale of the...
Australian Bauxite has been granted a trading halt by the ASX pending details of a proposed capital rising, with the company's shares placed in pre-open. Australian Bauxite has not yet indicated where the potential inflow of funds will be allocated, but the company recently expanded Pre-Feasibility Studies at the Goulburn Bauxite Project due to thick bauxite discovered earlier in the year. Importantly - over half of the 38 million tonne resource has been identified as high grade. Pre Feasibility Study Metallurgical Tests confirmed that the remaining 47% of total identified bauxite resources, called PDM-DSO bauxite, contains dense, hard, magnetic emery nodules that are easily recovered by gravity screening for sale, leaving the remaining 70% light fraction as DSO grade bauxite. The halt...
Bauxite company Alufer has raised US$12 million in a private placing to complete its feasibility project at its flagship Bel Air project in Guinea and meet its cash requirements until next year. The firm postponed its planned listing on London's AIM market because of the poor market conditions, but this fundraising allows it to remain on schedule for first production in late 2013, or early 2014. Its chief executive Danny Keating told Proactive Investors that the firm carried out an extensive a road show across Europe, meeting with 60 different groups, but described the current fundraising market environment as "very tough". People liked the fundamentals of the bauxite space and the project, he said, but problems had arisen surrounding the project’s valuation. The US$12 million raised...
Alcoa is using a new, natural method for reforestation at its Juruti bauxite mine in Brazil that is efficient, cost effective and sustainable. The technique is based on the theory of nucleation, where small dense nuclei of plants and animals facilitate the arrival of other species. At Juruti, birds and other elements of nature are helping recover the soil rather than traditional reforestation, which works the soil and then plant saplings. "The nucleation method restores the environment in a short amount of time, leading to greater richness in biodiversity," explains Pedro Pinto, Alcoa Environment, Health and Safety Manager for the Juruti bauxite mine. "It benefits the formation of the soil by keeping the micro-environment more humid. This technique also reduces the need for using...
An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on Wednesday gave Reliance Power and Essar-Hindalco the go-ahead to start mining at two coal blocks allotted to them, albeit with some riders. The approvals were for Reliance Power to start mining coal from the Chhatrasal block and for Essar-Hindalco to start mining from the Mahan block. Together, these two blocks will fire up a power capacity of over 10,000 mw. The EGoM has, however, issued some 15 riders for these companies to follow once they start mining coal from these blocks. The companies will have to shell out 5% of their project cost towards corporate social responsibility activities. Also, they will have to mitigate their action through parallel means if they destroy any forest area and effect the wildlife and must undertake compulsory...
Mining giant Rio Tinto Alcan and the CSIRO say they are embarking on a million-dollar project to measure the effects of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland. The Future Reef Map project will involve the installation of an ocean sensor on a Rio Tinto ship, which regularly travels to Gladstone from the company's bauxite mine on western Cape York. The head of the company's bauxite operations, Pat Fiore, says it will measure water acidity, temperature and chemical levels along the length of the reef. "A piece of gear - a sensor that goes into the water - collects it on an almost continuous basis, feeds the data back into a server," he said. The CSIRO says the data will help to shed light on the effects of climate change and acidification on reef health, coral growth and...
First Bauxite Corporation announces that it has further strengthened its Board of Directors with the appointment of Mr. John W. Hick as a Director and Chairman. Mr. Ioannis (Yannis) Tsitos has stepped down from the position of Interim Chairman to enable Mr. Hick to assume the Chairman role, but will continue serving as a Director. Mr. Tsitos is thanked for his leading the Company as an officer and Interim Chair to date. Mr. Hick brings over 30 years of executive management and board experience in the mining sector with operations encompassing the globe including Placer Dome, TVX Gold, Rio Narcea Gold, and Medoro Resources. Mr. Hick holds a LLB degree from the University of Ottawa, was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978, and currently serves on the boards of a number of other mining...
Australian Bauxite Limited commissioned Como Engineers Pty Ltd and other metallurgical and environmental engineering firms to prepare a Pre Feasibility Study (PFS) on the Goulburn Bauxite Project located near Goulburn New South Wales (Figure 1). Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) has participated in the PFS and has contributed 35% of the cost. The PFS was initially focused on a conservative, lowest-capital cost case of 1.2 million tonnes per annum (1.2Mtpa) of bauxite delivered to ship at Port Kembla. A second study was also based on a 1.2Mtpa scale but involved higher rail capital costs so as to reduce the operating costs. Both of the 1.2Mtpa cases yielded positive results with high internal rates of return, thus confirming the feasibility to commence the project at the rate of 1.2Mtpa,...
Bauxite mining company Aurum Exploration last week led a traditional visit to chiefs in Bua on Vanua Levu seeking their blessings for the bauxite loading already in progress in the area. Bauxite mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said the traditional visit was made to the chiefs, qoliqoli (fishing ground) owners and landowners in the districts of Navakasiga and Lekutu. He said the visit was to inform them of the first bauxite shipment expected to move out to China soon. The traditional visit was to seek the appeasement of the vanua of Lekutu and Navakasiga whose land and qoliqoli the company presently operates in, Mr Vanuaca said. The seven chiefs in this district accepted the delegation from the company for notification of the first shipment of bauxite out of their land, he said. The company...
About 67 hectares of farmland were submerged in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region as of Tuesday after a sludge dump of an aluminum company began leaking Saturday. Mud measuring over one meter in depth from the sludge dump of the Guangxi Huayin Aluminum Co., Ltd. entered the houses of some farmers in Jingxi County, according to a Xinhua reporter at the scene. The sea of mud as well as red, polluted water has inundated the village. A total of 43 families have been affected, and they were relocated to tents set up on a mountain slope. The county government has given out water and food to affected farmers, who will also receive a daily stipend of 30 yuan ($4.7) each from the company. Heavy metal pollution has yet to be found in the mud, according to the regional environmental...
The first day of indefinite bandh called by Garhwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Gover issues like acute power crisis, dilapidated condition of NH-75 and water woes evoked good response from its residents on Monday, as the entire business establishment remained shut and traffic came to a standstill. All vehicular traffic remained off the road. The bandh was backed by almost all political parties and various social organizations. Even petrol pumps, hotels and eateries remained closed during the bandh. Government offices and courts wore a deserted look as very few people turned up. Transportation of bauxite from Chhattisgarh to Garhwa was completely paralyzed as trucks carrying bauxite did not ply. The GCCI members led by the president Bablu Patwa and former president Santosh Kumar...
The former director of Aluminex Resources Limited has been charged with providing false information to the Australian Securities Exchange. David Alan Zohar, of Inglewood, appeared in the Perth Magistrate’s Court last week accused of misleading the ASX in relation to his company’s ability to meet the minimum requirements for listing. If found guilty, Mr Zohar, who has been charged with three counts of providing false information, faces up to six years in jail. Aluminex Resources Limited is a mining exploration company which held licenses to explore for bauxite and other base metals at tenements at Wandoo in the Chittering Valley, east of Perth. When Aluminex was first admitted to the official list of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in September 2008, it had sought to raise up to...
LOADING of the 60,000 tonnes of bauxite in the province of Bua in Fiji is expected to be completed next week. Bauxite mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said the MV Yon Shun would load 60,000 tonnes of bauxite valued at $2.1 million a month. However, he said it was not clear when the ship would leave for China. "The ship is still being loaded and will complete loading by next week," Mr Vanuaca said. "Actual dates are not clear as it involves Customs, Immigration and Quarantine to release the ship," he said. The ship, which sailed straight from China for the first shipment, has a capacity of 60,000 tonnes. It arrived last week and was cleared in Lautoka before sailing to Galoa Bay with the help of local pilot Captain Freddy Vollmer. Mr Vanuaca said the Bua bauxite mine was expected to rake in...
