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 Limited (ASX:ABZ.AX - News) are pleased to provide the Chairman's Address to Shareholders at the 2012 Annual General Meeting held today. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Australian Bauxite Limited's 2012 Annual General Meeting. This is my first year as Chairman, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge Deputy Chairman Peter Meer's prior work as Chairman since the Company's successful IPO in December 2009. On behalf of the Shareholders, Board and staff, I would also thank Vincent Tan, who is stepping down from the Board today, for his important role in the creation of the Company. Last year Australian Bauxite achieved several significant and ambitious objectives, and I am pleased to report on the Company's positive progress...
The rich bauxite resources of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh might not see the light of the day if Union tribal minister V Kishore Deo has his way. Bauxite mining in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh faces an uncertain future with Union tribal minister V Kishore Deo shooting off a letter recently to ESL Narsimhan, the Andhra Pradesh governor, seeking a total ban on bauxite mining in these two states. The ban, if it comes into effect, could have huge ramifications as these states boast of almost two thirds of the country's bauxite deposits. The minister has cited increased Maoist attacks in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as a cause for concern in his letter to the governor. "It is necessary to note that most of the killings by the extremists are in connection with those who have had close links with bauxite...
Australia's federal environment minister said Thursday that he wouldn't apologize for his caution over a proposal by Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) to expand its bauxite mining operations in Queensland state. A word of words has erupted between the Labor Party's Tony Burke and Queensland's Liberal National Party government over Rio's US$1.5 billion project, after the state gave conditional approval to the project Wednesday despite Mr. Burke's insistence that the effect of expanded shipping on the Great Barrier Reef be assessed. "We will do what the Queensland government hasn't done, and that is make a decision that also ensures the protection of the reef," Mr. Burke said. "It doesn't matter how many times the Queensland government thumps the table and tells me they would prefer me to ignore the reef...
First Bauxite Corporation announces that the Company is proceeding with a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") to Resource Capital Fund V LP and certain entities comprising the Pacific Road Resources Funds for up to 22,641,510 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.53 per Unit to raise total proceeds of $12,000,000. Each Unit will consist of one common share and one-half of a transferable common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole Warrant will be exercisable for one additional common share (a "Warrant Share") of the Company for a period of 36 months following the closing of the Private Placement, at an exercise price of $0.75 per Warrant Share. A fee equal to 3.5% of the gross proceeds will be paid in cash or the equivalent value of Units to certain parties...
RIO Tinto Alcan's $1.45 billion bauxite project near Weipa has been approved by the State Government but faces a more rigorous assessment before it can proceed, Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke warns. The South of Embley venture will generate more than 2000 jobs and extend the life of bauxite mining operations near Weipa for another 40 years. Queensland Co-ordinator-General Barry Broe yesterday announced the project had been granted conditional approval. "I have imposed conditions which establish clear principles and procedures on matters including post-mining land use and rehabilitation, local and indigenous employment, training and skills development and mitigation of potential social impacts of the mine," he said. Rio Tinto Alcan president and chief executive officer of bauxite...
Alecto Minerals plc, the AIM listed multi-commodity exploration and development company with projects in Ethiopia, Mauritania, and the right to acquire a highly prospective bauxite asset in Guinea,announces that it has raised £1,472,500 by way of a placing of 95,000,000 New Ordinary Shares at 1.55p per share to a new cornerstone investor. The funds raised will primarily be used to advance its highly prospective African resource portfolio through implementing systematic drilling and exploration programmes. Cornerstone investor Mr. Fahad Al-Tamimi is a highly successful businessman who is the founder and owner of a substantial diversified business group with its head offices in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Over the last three decades, Mr. Al-Tamimi has been at the centre of many of the Kingdom's...
Despite having huge bauxite deposits, India is still lagging behind in aluminium production and consumption. The East Coast region, home to 74% of the total bauxite reserves, continues to be one of the most-neglected regions in the country, as not a single bauxite mine has been opened in the past three decades. The East Coast region, part of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, where a staggering 2,600 million tonne of in-situ reserves of bauxite was discovered way back in 1970, that virtually promised to become a game changer in the world of aluminium, with India becoming the fifth-highest bauxite reserves nation in the world with deposits of about 3.5 billion tonne, or 5%, of global deposits. "It is unfortunate that India could not leverage its strength by emerging as the epicentre of an...
Rio Tinto is a step closer to expanding its bauxite operations in far north Queensland, after a controversial $1.45 billion project was given approval to proceed by the Queensland Government. While Federal Government approvals are still outstanding, the “South of Embley” project near Weipa was given the green light by Campbell Newman's pro-mining Queensland Government. The project was controversially delayed when Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke stepped in over concerns about shipping numbers through the Great Barrier Reef. That intervention has delayed the project by at least one year, and the incident was cited by Rio boss Tom Albanese during his recent Australian visit as an example of the difficulties in doing business in Australia. South of Embley will involve a new open cut...
Ex-employees of Guinean bauxite company CBG, a joint venture with Alcoa and Rio Tinto , have ended a railway occupation that was starving its factory of bauxite supplies for processing, company officials said on Monday. The week-long blockade was in protest at what the former staff said was a failure to pay quarterly pensions of around $120. CBG officials said the company had already transferred funds to cover their pensions to the Guinean state welfare, who was charged with ensuring the employees then got paid. "Activities restarted normally yesterday," said a senior CBG official who requested anonymity. A second official said the former employees had been invited to the capital Conakry for discussions on the dispute with the government. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of the ore...
Any areas mined for bauxite around Taralga and Crookwell will be returned to a “better than the original”condition. This commitment was given at last Upper Lachlan Council meeting by Mr. Ian Levy, CEO of Australian Bauxite Limited, which is currently drilling over a wide area between Crookwell and Taralga. Mr. Levy also stated that if bauxite mining goes ahead here it will affect less than 0.5 per cent of land area and less than 1 per cent of cleared farmland. Rehabilitation of mined areas was a core factor in the company’s operations, he said. The bauxite was located generally near the surface of dry, rocky land areas, and the quarries created would be smaller than existing gravel quarries, Mr. Levy said. The biggest problem facing the development of bauxite mining in the area was...
Bauxite Resources (ASX: BAU) has identified potential for a major bauxite resource at the company’s Ceres Prospect in Western Australia’s southwest. A preliminary review of data collected in a 7,923.5 metre drilling program has been carried out, identifying thick, high grade bauxite close to the surface. A bauxite horizon has been encountered over an area of 3,500 hectares, with seams up to 8 metres in thickness and at grades of up to 42.4% without beneficiation. About 14% of holes drilled contained alumina grades of 25% or greater, in more than 2 metres thickness. The mineralisation begins within 0.5 metres of the surface, with overburden of less than 2 metres throughout the majority of the mineralised area, reducing potential excavation costs. Mineralisation identified on the private...
SCIENTISTS at the University of Glasgow are working to turn a toxic industrial waste product into a material which can be used to treat contaminated water. A team from the University’s School of Chemistry, in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, have found encouraging signs that a substance known as “red mud” could be carbonised to make it safer. The carbonised red mud could also be used to remove heavy metals from water. Red mud is a byproduct of the Bayer process, an industrial procedure which extracts alumina from bauxite ore. Alumina, also known as aluminium oxide, is most often used in the industrial production of aluminium. The mud is given its characteristic red colour through its high concentration of iron oxide. The Bayer process produces...
RUSSIAN aluminium giant Rusal has accused the Gillard government of hobbling the once high-growth alumina industry through the July 1 introduction of the carbon tax. It argues the carbon tax will force shrinkage in the industry's share of growth in the global market for alumina, an intermediate product used in producing aluminium. "Since the design of the tax and the announcing of its implementation, global circumstances have changed dramatically and Australia now faces an almost impossible task of competing with new entrants to the industry," Rusal Australia chairman John Hannagan said. Rusal is a 20 per cent partner with Rio Tinto in one of the world's biggest alumina refineries, at Gladstone (Queensland Alumina Ltd, QAL). Mr Hannagan said the design of the carbon tax would hand future...
Alecto Minerals plc, the AIM listed exploration and development company with gold and base metal projects in Ethiopia and Mauritania, announces that it has been granted a 30 day extension to its due diligence exclusivity period contained in the option agreement ('the Agreement') relating to the staged acquisition of Forward Africa Resources ('FAR'), which holds the 711 sq km bauxite licence 223 ('Licence 223'). Licence 223 is located in a highly prospective south west coastal region of Guinea with established infrastructure and producing bauxite projects in close proximity. Further details of the Agreement are contained in the Company's announcement made on 23 February 2012. While Alecto has made substantial progress in advancing due diligence at Licence 223, a few minor issues are...
A railway occupation by former employees of Guinea's state bauxite company CBG, a joint venture with Alcoa and Rio Tinto, is starving its factory of ore supplies for processing, senior company officials told Reuters on Wednesday. "It has prevented us from supplying the factory since Monday," said one official who requested anonymity of the blockade of rails leading to its factory 300 km (200 miles) northwest of the capital Conakry. "Normally there are five shuttles a day to transport around 50,000 tonnes a day. It is this system which is paralysed by this strike." Guinea is the world's largest exporter of the ore which is the main source of aluminium. CBG has an annual production of 13.5 million tonnes. A second source at the company said it was already running out of stocks to load onto...
There are indications that the government may be stepping in to offer some reprieve to the owners of the Ewarton bauxite plant in St. Catherine. The cost of production and the decreased demand for alumina has continued to take a toll on the company. The high cost of electricity has also been blamed for the financial woes plaguing the company. Earlier this year, there were also jitters that the Ewarton plant was heading for another shutdown, after the company began removing equipment to a plant in Guyana. However, it was later revealed that equipment was owned by a third party entity. Since coming into office, the government has been in discussions with the owners of Ewarton, UC Rusal, to look at ways to provide a boost to the company. Responding to questions at yesterday’s sitting of...
The global market for Bauxite and Alumina is forecast to reach 211.3 and 76.2 million metric tons, respectively, by the year 2017. With global economy on the growth path post recession, both production and consumption levels are expected to display a positive trend, spurred by rising demand from aluminum end-use applications including automobiles, packaging and construction. Further, robust growth in developing markets of Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa will provide strong impetus for rapid expansion. China, Australia, Brazil and US ranks among the top producers of Alumina worldwide. A major part of alumina output in Australia and Latin America is utilized in metallurgical applications, while there has been a significant increase in non-metallurgical applications in recent times in...
