
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 Alcan, one of five operating groups operated by Rio Tinto PLC, is focusing its investment and development on bauxite and alumina, Jacynthe Cote, chief executive of Rio Tinto Alcan, said Tuesday at the American Metal Market Aluminum Summit. "Remember that it all starts with bauxite and...

Emerging bauxite exploration and development company, Australian Bauxite Limited has received laboratory and exploration results from drilling and surface exploration at its Binjour Bauxite Project in central QLD 133 holes drilled in 2012 have intersected a thick layer of bauxite located beneath a...

Resource Capital Fund V L.P. ("RCF") is pleased to announce that it has completed a subsequent $6m investment in First Bauxite Corporation (the "Company"). RCF has acquired 11,320,755 Units (each a "Unit") pursuant to a private placement by the Company at a price of $0.53 per Unit. Each Unit...

The Kiran Reddy government on Monday decided to cancel the lease of Bayyaram iron ore mines spread across three mandals in Khammam district. Around 1.4 lakh acres of land was leased to a joint venture of AP Minerals Development Corporation Ltd (APMDCL) and Rakshana Steels for iron ore mining. The...

ReportReserve’s new report, ‘Bauxite Mining Market in Europe to 2020 - Market Characterized by Increased Regional Demand for Aluminum Backed by Significant Reserves’ provides key information and analysis of the European bauxite mining industry, which consists of Russia and Greece. The report covers...

The CBI is investigating the orders for bauxite mining given by the YSR government to Anrak Aluminium Limited, a joint venture of the Penna Group of Ras-Al-Khaiamah investment authority, in Visakha-patnam and Vizianagaram. The CBI, which is investigating the case against Penna Cements that has...

$US20 million has come into the country of Fiji through the bauxite mining operation in Bua. Aurum Explorations Fiji Limited’s mine manager Vanuaca Basilio said this is in terms of taxes and wages paid to government and wages paid to the employees. He said $2.5 million has also been paid to the...

Alecto Minerals plc, the AIM listed multi-commodity exploration and development company with projects in Ethiopia, Mauritania, and an option over a highly prospective bauxite asset in Guinea, announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2011 and gives notice of its AGM to be held at...

Australian Bauxite Limited advises that is has completed a placement of 4.3 million fully paid ordinary shares at $0.39 cents per share to sophisticated, eligible and/or professional investors, as defined under Section 708 of the Corporations Act (Placement). $1.67 million of additional capital was...

Indonesia's push for miners to add value through further processing of bauxite and nickel ores has given struggling Australian producers something to smile about. The hope is that Indonesia's push could lead to higher prices for bauxite-alumina and nickel ores as exports from Indonesia are halted...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...