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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Andhra Pradesh Governor E S L Narasimhan is likely to use his special powers to cancel 10 mining leases issued for bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam district. The leases were issued between 2005 and 2009, and included areas in forests and tribal lands in Eastern Ghats and Aaraku Valley in Vizag. The...
Chinalco hosted a seminar on mining technology and bauxite recently. Director of Chinalco Science and technology department Zhang Jilong attended the meeting. The recent tax imposition on Bauxite export by Indonesia is giving rise to many questions among the industry players of the Chinese...
Center takes keen interest on the issue of bauxite mining and the growing Maoist violence on the Andhra-Odisha border. For the first time, the Centre has urged the governor to use his special powers in Scheduled Areas to cancel bauxite mining leases given in Andhra Pradesh's Vishakhapatnam...
TRADITIONAL leaders in the district of Wainunu in Bua will meet next month to discuss the options of having a bauxite mine in the area. Tui Wainunu Ratu Orisi Baleitavea said the idea was a good one because it provided employment and income-generating opportunities but certain issues needed to be...
Necessity gives rise to invention and the scarcity of domestic bauxite reserve in China is making people from aluminium industry think about an alternative. Yin Zhonglin who is the director of Chalco Zhengzhou Research Institute Alumina Institute said at the World Aluminum Raw Materials Summit 2012...
India’s ambition of becoming the next China has one major hindrance: lack of raw materials. Industrial activity hinges on availability of steel, aluminum, copper and coal to build cars, machines and run power plants. But the country’s ability to increase output of these commodities is restrained by...
Sydney, May 8, 2012 (ABN Newswire) - Emerging bauxite exploration and development company, Australian Bauxite Limited discovered a thick layer of good quality bauxite in 2008-09 at its Inverell project in northern NSW (see Figure 1). Parts of that bauxite lie beneath a clay horizon and required...
DISCOVERY BAY:A JOINT Effort by Noranda Bauxite, Brown's Town Community College and Heart/NTA to establish the Discovery Bay Skills Training Facility recently, earned commendation from Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who has reiterated her administration's commitment to making education a...
